Helix Integration at Chadwick Model Railway | 115.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 พ.ย. 2020
- Fitting the helix into the layout at Chadwick Model Railway.
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Always good videos, but this one was truly brilliant. I am very interested in a helix for a future project in long term planning. This is easily the best video I have seen on the subject explaining the physics and geometry in easily understood terms as well as tips on construction. Especially liked the honesty on mistakes and things to improve on to help others. I think the idea of testing on various types of loco and rolling stock would be great especially for the steamers. Many videos I've seen quote, almost as a mantra, that you can't have a helix on a steam layout. Provided it's built correctly I'm not so sure and would love to see this tested on your helix. Please keep up the good work, it is much appreciated.
I’ve almost completed a 10 ring oval helix in N Scale using this method of threaded rod and nut/washer combination. I have 3 tracks running from ‘Ground Zero’ to the second level, and a point that gives train access to this level. The rest of the helix is two track to the top which is 90cm from bottom to top. I used Peco flexi track and soldered all joins, and added Jumper cables to inside and outside tracks. The gap between levels is 72mm which gave me a 2.0% grade, a challenge for the intended 100 car + trains I want to run. Thanks you for the tip on super elevating the tracks, this should ease the burden and minimise trains wanting to pull in towards the inner part of the curves causing the ‘All fall down’ problem. To get the nuts down the threaded rod I used a wire brush on a battery drill which was a real time saver, and following your tip, all jumper wires run down the threaded rod to terminal plugs with each set of jumpers clearly marked for fault finding. Thank you so much for the insight to helix construction, this helped me a lot on my third attempt to construct ‘The Beast’. May all your trains run on time - Bruce Ritchie
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Hi Charlie, I am not a railway modeller but I do enjoy your videos, keep them coming please. Just a thought, if you cut a nut in half and use a pair of mole grips to hold the nut together, half a nut each side of the threaded bar and screw the nut down to the washer and board and with the grips still on, use super glue to hold it in place and then use epoxy to give it final strength.
When my wife saw my helix, she said it was so neat that it should be visible during operations. "But it's not prototypical!" I replied. Mine has only a single rail (except for a built-in reversing loop near the bottom). Yours is more spectacular.
Im a retired engineer but must tell you about my experience when I was about 5. Uncle Walt drove engines between Victoria and Dover and one day when visiting he suggested we visit the engine shed. We climbed up onto the foot plate of this black smelly cold thing and I screamed my head off, much to the annoyance of my Dad. Give me a nice shinny aeroplane any day. From this you can see I am in no way qualified to comment, but have gone to the expense of having all those nice bits of wood laser cut, I would have cut some tube to length to act as spacers between each layer. Its just a thought, shoot me down, what do I know.
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Excellent video Charlie. Although I am not going to build a helix I have participated in building one on a friend’s layout. I wish we had this video before we built it. One of the most tedious aspects is threading the nuts. One of the crew invented a similar system and built it again using a drill to speed up the movement of the nuts.
The phrase "A glutton for punishment " sprang to mind. Not one but two Helix assemblies! I must say it is going to look really good Charlie. The operational flexibility should be superb. Proper job. I really enjoy following your adventures.
At 17.42 in Charlie throws his glasses to the ground. Please encourage all your viewers to do the same, it will help bring funds into us optometrists which we can then spend on our model railway projects. Just so appreciate your videos. Am in the early stages of a big build and keep going back and forth over previous videos to learn ‘how to’. Thanks so much.
I must admit that I was horrified at all of the work ahead of you when you started on the helix project but now I realise that it is rather exciting. Good luck. I’m looking forward to watching the progress. Tony
Very well explained that nut missing would bug me so bad, makes it look easy that’s hours of work right there, imagine weathering and ballasting the track
Greetings Charlie. Great video as always. I bet you've been going round in circles with this for weeks. 🤔 Do keep up the good work in the community. 👍
It was watching such videos that I got inspiration from to build my own, LEGO spiral - or helix, as railroad modellers prefer to call it. Only, I went much higher - much, much higher.
My dose of Chadwick yes. The drill operated nut driver is wonderful nice piece of kit. I hope everything goes great in the fiddle yard construction I can’t wait.
another entertaining but informative video Charlie. The retrospective analysis was good but its worth remembering the old adage that the man who never made a mistake never made anything.(Ive referred to the male of the species as we all know that our spouses dont make mistakes) Barnstable ? Well you could run a Small Packet with 4 malachite green coaches into that.
What a beautiful thing. Very well done. (and with so many nuts it's not a tragedy to forget one)
The 125 pulled away well on the helix.
Fantastic Charlie don’t realise how big it looks when finished wow
I appreciate your thorough explanations of pluses and pitfalls of your experiences.