Great job. I wasted a lot of wood cutting half and quarter circles and ended up with a pile of strange shaped off cuts making my helix. Great idea to make it the way you did.
I think it will be less time consuming and a more efficient use of materials. The 4x8 sheet of plywood is cut into strips which then are cut into segments. the angle of those cuts allows the segments to be reassembled into the hexagon. I suppose angles could be matched to form a octagon, but that would take more time. It seems to me cutting circular sections will always leave a lot of pieces trimmed from edges of the 4x8 and curved cuts are more difficult to make than straight cuts.
A step by step would be nice. The ability to adjust the helix is a great idea. Im taking bits and pieces from a lot of videos before I begin my own THANK YOU
Hi I’m gonna build my helix following your method. Easier to cut straight lines and less wastage. Can I just ask you what thickness of plywood you used? Thanks.
Am I the only one that noticed this looks like it being built in a WWII bunker? Looks great and you'll be able to railroad during an apocalyptic event!
R1 is asking for trouble. It will be very steep. Download the Excel from comments and try out how steep it will be. Also some thirdparty product will not run on it.
Good job,,!?,, why didn't, you use a router, or lam., trimmer, with a swing arm ??,,, you opened yourself up, to a ton of work, I find it easier, to rout, 1/4" ply, in circles!!!
I don't have enough storage place to store larger machinery, plus all the budget goes into build materials. I might see if I can lend better equipment for the next helix which three times as high.
lots of unnecessary work in the video. just cut strips f 1/8 or thinner. wall fiber board, it is just a step better than card board. exact name? but cut the strips about 3/4 wide. then placing your single track supports or double supports for more than one full loop. threaded rod works great here to adjust the grade to keep it the same all the way. but then using glue some screws and lots of C clamps start bending as per the curve, easy as long as you keep the radius about 34 inches. and all track supports can be made this way. city's, yards can just use good old plywood. or sound deadening ? stuff. all curves can be made gradual not snap track sudden. can even hand lay the rail on this under support.
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I actually like the threaded rod idea. Seems that you can adjust thing a little while building the helix. Thanks for sharing this.
This is brilliant way of doing a helix. I also love the fact that you have two sets of tracks for usage.
Great job. I wasted a lot of wood cutting half and quarter circles and ended up with a pile of strange shaped off cuts making my helix. Great idea to make it the way you did.
Using straight cuts to form the hexagon appears to be a more efficient use of plywood than cutting circles out of a sheet.
Jerry Smith First of all it seems to be a way more time-consuming method.
I think it will be less time consuming and a more efficient use of materials. The 4x8 sheet of plywood is cut into strips which then are cut into segments. the angle of those cuts allows the segments to be reassembled into the hexagon. I suppose angles could be matched to form a octagon, but that would take more time. It seems to me cutting circular sections will always leave a lot of pieces trimmed from edges of the 4x8 and curved cuts are more difficult to make than straight cuts.
THANK YOU FOR SHARING THE VIDEO
LOL @ The music! At one point there, I thought you were gonna sacrifice a chicken. :)
A step by step would be nice. The ability to adjust the helix is a great idea. Im taking bits and pieces from a lot of videos before I begin my own THANK YOU
Just watch this video: th-cam.com/video/GcXbVhl9Vd8/w-d-xo.html
Well done! Like those kinds of woodwork.
Carsten
Hi I’m gonna build my helix following your method. Easier to cut straight lines and less wastage. Can I just ask you what thickness of plywood you used? Thanks.
Just check the tutorial video: th-cam.com/video/GcXbVhl9Vd8/w-d-xo.html It has all explanation.
I used 4mm plywood.
Am I the only one that noticed this looks like it being built in a WWII bunker? Looks great and you'll be able to railroad during an apocalyptic event!
Unfourtenately not. The room is located on a old factory. Which used to make wool. I will show some picture in the next layout update.
Amazing great time laps thanks for sharing
Ein Tipp ich bin Grad mit meinem wendel fertig geworden und es vereinfacht es sehr die Stücke zu verkleben und dann mit 8mm tackerklammern zu fixieren
Es gibt natürlich andere Methoden als die hier. Beim zweiten Wendel haben wir leicht anders gemacht.
Hey there, a bit late with this, but maybe you can place a LED strip at the 'roof' of platform above that train rail. So you have a lighted railway
There is enough light there.
Perfect music!
hello what are the measures of the board in cm
Check the tutorial video here: th-cam.com/video/GcXbVhl9Vd8/w-d-xo.html
is there a follow up video, would like to see more.
Check my other video, specially the layout update. More time-lapse video are planned, but they require some preparation to be awesome.
Explanation how to do would be neat.
If you read the description, you would have found it: th-cam.com/video/GcXbVhl9Vd8/w-d-xo.html
Super Arbeit. Was ist die Gleiskrümmung? R2 oder R3?
R4 und R5. R2 verwende ich nicht auf der Hauptstrecke.
What curves did you use in that Marklin C track? R3 and R4 or R2 and R3?
R4 and R5, the biggest.
PolybosStudio Do you think is an error to build a helix with R1 and R2? Or is that asking for trouble?
R1 is asking for trouble. It will be very steep. Download the Excel from comments and try out how steep it will be. Also some thirdparty product will not run on it.
Lil bit of overkill on the wood work maybe
I have seen way more over kill on the other layouts.
It it better to over do it than under do it and have it come back aand bite u in the butt head over to my chanel im having a giveaway hint T1000
Good job,,!?,, why didn't, you use a router, or lam., trimmer, with a swing arm ??,,, you opened yourself up, to a ton of work, I find it easier, to rout, 1/4" ply, in circles!!!
I don't have enough storage place to store larger machinery, plus all the budget goes into build materials. I might see if I can lend better equipment for the next helix which three times as high.
I probably would've accidentally cut off a corner of the picnic table
Who I did't. The picnic table is anyway now gone, because they are building a road there, but no clue what it is for.
even ,if you had to edge glue ply, to make diameter,,, router, would have been much, quicker,saving time,!! I would have bought, a cheep one, to do !!
raptors
IF I WAS ONLY THIS SMART!
Praise the lord for power tools!
lots of unnecessary work in the video.
just cut strips f 1/8 or thinner. wall fiber board, it is just a step better than card board. exact name? but cut the strips about 3/4 wide.
then placing your single track supports or double supports for more than one full loop. threaded rod works great here to adjust the grade to keep it the same all the way.
but then using glue some screws and lots of C clamps start bending as per the curve, easy as long as you keep the radius about 34 inches. and all track supports can be made this way. city's, yards can just use good old plywood. or sound deadening ? stuff.
all curves can be made gradual not snap track sudden. can even hand lay the rail on this under support.
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