Great vid on building your own turnouts/points. Very explanatory and educational. Definitely gonna check out the templot software. My humble experience with building my own turnouts also produces very, very smooth transitions. The kind of frog and heel construction on such turnouts really makes ‘m very reliable. Much more reliable than insulfrog types or otherwise cast frogs with often too little clearance for wheels with just a little bit larger flanges.
Excellent channel, keep on with what you are doing, you're doing great! By the way, if you want the switch blades to lock you just need a centrally mounted over centre spring - basically a piece of wire bent at 90 degrees mounted diagonally between the tie bar & an adjacent sleeper. There are quite a few TH-cam video's that show how it is done.
It would be handy if it was specified what part the wing rail is. It is mentioned but not indicated in the SMP instructions. Thanks for making this film. It is nicely put together.
Handbuilt points ? I use Fulgurex Swiss made point motors, as they have the guts being motor driven and come with 2 built in switches. One for controlling the point frog, and another for signal interlocking. They are 12v DC two wire operation. Which requires a DPDT (no centre off) mini toggle switch to operate. I've been using them on all my exhibition layouts for near 40 years. "Turtle" forget it - to big, to expensive, and the contacts for the switching usually melt when reused. Some of my Fulgurex mechanisms are now over 30 years old and have been on numerous exhibition layouts. A Bulk Batch of 20 Fulgurex motors cost me £7.50 each back in August 2019 direct from Fulgurex in Swizerland. British shops charge and arm and a leg !!!
It’s not as scary as people make out. I have built loads of points, single and Double slips. I’ve even built the point and a single slip in one of the signalboxes I work. You can get a jig from peco to check the gauge and to set up the frog with the nose. Keep up the good work
Hi Rick, that’s a good idea, as yes it definitely would have been helpful ! I had a couple of points that needed the gauge fettling slightly, so on future builds I think that’ll be the route I’ll be taking!
Thanks for making this. Giving me a bit of hope and inspiration to build my own 👍🏼
really great explanation
Great vid on building your own turnouts/points. Very explanatory and educational. Definitely gonna check out the templot software.
My humble experience with building my own turnouts also produces very, very smooth transitions. The kind of frog and heel construction on such turnouts really makes ‘m very reliable. Much more reliable than insulfrog types or otherwise cast frogs with often too little clearance for wheels with just a little bit larger flanges.
Thank you very much for watching! Hand built points are definitely very different in pretty much every category to off the shelf ones
well done
Excellent channel, keep on with what you are doing, you're doing great! By the way, if you want the switch blades to lock you just need a centrally mounted over centre spring - basically a piece of wire bent at 90 degrees mounted diagonally between the tie bar & an adjacent sleeper. There are quite a few TH-cam video's that show how it is done.
It would be handy if it was specified what part the wing rail is. It is mentioned but not indicated in the SMP instructions. Thanks for making this film. It is nicely put together.
Handbuilt points ? I use Fulgurex Swiss made point motors, as they have the guts being motor driven and come with 2 built in switches. One for controlling the point frog, and another for signal interlocking. They are 12v DC two wire operation. Which requires a DPDT (no centre off) mini toggle switch to operate. I've been using them on all my exhibition layouts for near 40 years. "Turtle" forget it - to big, to expensive, and the contacts for the switching usually melt when reused. Some of my Fulgurex mechanisms are now over 30 years old and have been on numerous exhibition layouts. A Bulk Batch of 20 Fulgurex motors cost me £7.50 each back in August 2019 direct from Fulgurex in Swizerland. British shops charge and arm and a leg !!!
It’s not as scary as people make out. I have built loads of points, single and Double slips. I’ve even built the point and a single slip in one of the signalboxes I work. You can get a jig from peco to check the gauge and to set up the frog with the nose.
Keep up the good work
You do not have to use point motors. You can use wire in tube.
Hi Jack, that is an option that I am thinking of using now as it is super simple and less to go wrong with! Thanks for watching! 😀
Excellent, but would not the job be a lot quicker and more accurate if you had some spacer jigs to hold the gauge in place?
Hi Rick, that’s a good idea, as yes it definitely would have been helpful ! I had a couple of points that needed the gauge fettling slightly, so on future builds I think that’ll be the route I’ll be taking!