Or fasten it around something, metalic or not, and dip in boiling water for a few minites, ehich is the same thing since it is the hot water doing the work in the micro wave oven.
Pieter Roos Sent from my iPhone On Jan 9, 2011, at 9:09 AM, Charles Weston <[email protected]> wrote: Thorin, If you can find something non-metallic to match the curve of the roof you can wrap the styrene around and secure with rubber bands or something, you can nuke it in a pan of water in the microwave for a few minutes. Let it cool and it should hold the shape. Laminating with solvent cement can sometimes cause styrene deformation down the road. Charles Weston --- On Sun, 1/9/11, Thorin <[email protected]> wrote: From: Thorin <[email protected]> Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: SHS turnouts, a left and a right To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, January 9, 2011, 7:31 AM In a private e-mail Don Thompson asked "Are you planning on using these with code 110 wheels?" The answer is "Yes - and no." It is interesting. When I have a layout in a working trainroom, I run highrail. When I don't have a layout then I act like my track is handlaid, which means scale wheels. I will not have layout in the basement in this house. So I have 7 feet of 8 inch wide test track above my workbench on first floor. The right end is a separate 2 foot by 8 inch board I had planned to replace with a 2 feet by 13 inch board. (Found it in my the woodpile.) Body mounted couplers hate the S curve. So I thought I could have some more running options if I added another track in front. I have not handlaid this track because I have always loved the flexibility that sectional track provides. (Doug Peck is $120.00 richer this Christmas because of this love. I have about 100 sticks of 33" code 125 in storage. Switches (turnouts) are easy to build.) Right now I am building a scale steeplecab with body mounted couplers and scale wheels. Next up is to DCC a rebuilt American Flyer Hudson in its toy-train glory of highrail flanges and truck mounted 'lobster claw' couplers. It is Sunday and I am trying to build a new roof for the Steeplecab. I am trying to laminate two layers of 0.010 styrene with the needed curves. Thorin --- In [email protected], Thorinn Marty <lagt...@...> wrote: Good morning: Santa and Doug Peck brought me a SHS right turnout (switch) for Christmas for my workbench layout. I already have an SHS left providing a siding or the left yard track. Due to space limitations this left turnout plugs into a right curve forming a nasty S curve. ---------------------------------------------- ----------/ I want to expand to a three track yard with my new turnout. This will give me one nasty S curve and one gentle S curve. --------X------------------------------------- ------------/ -------- Last night I tried to build the above layout. The right turnout's ground throw interferes with the other track coming shows with the big X. The ground throw portion is part of the turnouts base casting. It can not be unscrewed and swapped to the other side. ---------\ ---------------------------------------------- ------------/ This could work but now I have TWO nasty S curves. The whole objective was to eliminate a nasty S Curve. ----------------X------------------------------- ------------/........./......................<-- Pretend the dots are not there -------------------/ This does not work unless I have a half-straight between the turnouts, again because of the ground throws. Plus I do not have two left turnouts. I am back to spacing AF issues and have to have a half-straight between switches. I am very sad as I thought the SHS turnouts avoided the problems found with the AF switches with their huge their direction control lever box. Any suggestions? Thorin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
