Looking good Rick!! Flex track must have been a hot item for this week🤷♂️😅 Everyone has there way of laying track and buttoning up the loose ends all that fun stuff. I know I pretty much do mine similar to how you do it. What matters is what works best for the individual right🤟🤙😎 Anyways great work and I'm enjoying watching your progress with the new addition. I really look forward to scenery and ops sessions on the new area!! Thanks for sharing and have a good day. Happy modeling!! -Jason
oh Rick I got extra Flex, but it's all code 83 and code 70 lol. Plus, way on the side of greater LA. When you are dressing the ends of the rails from cutting; take an extra second and hit the inside of the railhead with the file. A gentle chamfer there and on the railhead it will meet, puts a little indent at where they abut so the flange can't pick either railhead crossing the joint. Just remember you gotta do both. Code 100, overnighted from Lombards, too much LOL happy 4th. Oh, I also shag around a pin drill when working track, so I can drill a spike/nail hole where needed in a tie.
If you remove the ties more carefully, you can slip them back under the rails to fill in the gaps at your joints. You'll need to scrape off the little nubs that hold the rail to the tie; but that is easily done.
I use my Dremel to cut the plastic under the rails then slide them off, and if you clean the chairs off the track you can use the sleeper to fill the void you leave when you cut the track, just an idea 🙂
Rick, next time you go buy attachments for your Dremel, you may want to pick up one of their EZ Lock mandrels. Basically, it's a mandrel with a spring loaded collar on the shaft. The very end is shaped like a capital I. The collar is pulled down, the cutting disc is placed over the end and turned 90 degrees, then the collar is released. The disc is now installed. Much easier and faster than messing around with those little screws on the end of the mandrel!
Hey Rick - great shout out to eye protection! I've worn glasses since I was eight, so about two weeks now! Hehe! I wish I still had them, but I had a cut-off dick fly apart, as they're wont to do... hit right in the middle of the right lens. Made a GREAT scar on that extra-hard polycarbonate lens. And no scar in my eye. Scared the crap out of me, but it was a GREAT lesson. Eye care has improved so much over the years (high-index lenses, cataract surgery, etc.) but God only gave us two of those suckers - best take care of them! Enjoyed the show - makes me wish I lived down the street from you!!! You know, so YOU could come over and help ME with the layout I don't have...!
Starting to come together, Rick. Looking forward to it. How far apart do you usually drop feeders? Hope you and your family have a great and safe Fourth.
Once upon a time the only tool I had for metal cutting of any kind was a Dremel. If I had a dollar for every cutoff wheel I broke on that thing, I'd be able to retire.
I used to buy discs a few at a time, always broke them, over 30 years ago I bought about 30 in a container, now they wear out first. They don't break if you have spares, or maybe I got better at using them.
Looks great Rick. I am really enjoying the vids on the new portion of the layout. Any way I can obtain a copy of the track plan you have printed off? Thanks.
@@bobainsworth5057I just cut them in-situ from underneath with an exacto blade. Only need to slightly lift it up half a track pin length. That way the sleeper (tie) is intact and can be used to infill between joiners.
I've run that whole area in a different life when I ran for UP. Trust me when I tell you there are gaps EVERYWHERE. If you're looking to be prototypical, build more gaps into it. It's garbage rail.
As always excellent track work my friend, always giving me ideas for my future svc layout. Been a long 4th of july week. Glad everything is back to normal. 👍🐺☣☢🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂☢🚂☢☢🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂☣☣☣☣☣🎲🎲🎲🎲🎲🎲🎲🦜🦜🐓❄🔥☕💯🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂
Isn’t that the way it works. When you need something they don’t have it , when you don’t they have plenty. Thanks for sharing. Have a good 4th. 😎😎👍
Hi Rick. It’s coming along. Have a great weekend
Thanks 👍
Looking good.
Thanks 👍
Looking good Rick!! Flex track must have been a hot item for this week🤷♂️😅 Everyone has there way of laying track and buttoning up the loose ends all that fun stuff. I know I pretty much do mine similar to how you do it. What matters is what works best for the individual right🤟🤙😎 Anyways great work and I'm enjoying watching your progress with the new addition. I really look forward to scenery and ops sessions on the new area!! Thanks for sharing and have a good day. Happy modeling!! -Jason
oh Rick I got extra Flex, but it's all code 83 and code 70 lol. Plus, way on the side of greater LA. When you are dressing
the ends of the rails from cutting; take an extra second and hit the inside of the railhead with the file. A gentle chamfer
there and on the railhead it will meet, puts a little indent at where they abut so the flange can't pick either railhead crossing
the joint. Just remember you gotta do both. Code 100, overnighted from Lombards, too much LOL happy 4th.
Oh, I also shag around a pin drill when working track, so I can drill a spike/nail hole where needed in a tie.
Happy 4th brother!!! Yea stay in and be safe!!
If you remove the ties more carefully, you can slip them back under the rails to fill in the gaps at your joints. You'll need to scrape off the little nubs that hold the rail to the tie; but that is easily done.
I use my Dremel to cut the plastic under the rails then slide them off, and if you clean the chairs off the track you can use the sleeper to fill the void you leave when you cut the track, just an idea 🙂
Looking good
Thanks 👍
Will be BBQing for the next few days. Seems like I over meated at the super market on Friday
Happy 4th! 👍🌴
Same to you!
Rick, next time you go buy attachments for your Dremel, you may want to pick up one of their EZ Lock mandrels. Basically, it's a mandrel with a spring loaded collar on the shaft. The very end is shaped like a capital I. The collar is pulled down, the cutting disc is placed over the end and turned 90 degrees, then the collar is released. The disc is now installed. Much easier and faster than messing around with those little screws on the end of the mandrel!
Or use micro mark track cutters! Good track cutters too!
👍🤠👍 Happy 4th 💥
It must be nice to have local hobbyshops. The nearest one to me is 90 miles away.
You are lucky my closest shop is an airplane ride away! I'm on Maui and it is on Oahu. Paradise Tax. LOL
Happy 4th of July on Canada Day..
😎👍
Hey Rick - great shout out to eye protection! I've worn glasses since I was eight, so about two weeks now! Hehe! I wish I still had them, but I had a cut-off dick fly apart, as they're wont to do... hit right in the middle of the right lens. Made a GREAT scar on that extra-hard polycarbonate lens. And no scar in my eye. Scared the crap out of me, but it was a GREAT lesson. Eye care has improved so much over the years (high-index lenses, cataract surgery, etc.) but God only gave us two of those suckers - best take care of them!
Enjoyed the show - makes me wish I lived down the street from you!!! You know, so YOU could come over and help ME with the layout I don't have...!
Starting to come together, Rick. Looking forward to it. How far apart do you usually drop feeders? Hope you and your family have a great and safe Fourth.
I do feeders for every single piece of track.
Once upon a time the only tool I had for metal cutting of any kind was a Dremel. If I had a dollar for every cutoff wheel I broke on that thing, I'd be able to retire.
I used to buy discs a few at a time, always broke them, over 30 years ago I bought about 30 in a container, now they wear out first. They don't break if you have spares, or maybe I got better at using them.
Wood matchsticks will fill in for cheap plastic ties. Diamond brand minis are damn close to ho scale.
Looks great Rick. I am really enjoying the vids on the new portion of the layout. Any way I can obtain a copy of the track plan you have printed off? Thanks.
track plan is on the community tab on my channel page.
Rick, did you try Arnies model trains in Westminster?
that's where I was gonna run over too but decided to just order online. too much traffic this weekend.
You had Dremel in your had , why not cut plastic between ties with that?
It would melt the ties 🔥👎🏼
@@isaacsmith6109 nope, do it all the time.
@@bobainsworth5057I just cut them in-situ from underneath with an exacto blade. Only need to slightly lift it up half a track pin length. That way the sleeper (tie) is intact and can be used to infill between joiners.
@@peterainsworth8466 yup, can do that too.
It is nice but you are not supposed to have any "gaps."
I've run that whole area in a different life when I ran for UP. Trust me when I tell you there are gaps EVERYWHERE. If you're looking to be prototypical, build more gaps into it. It's garbage rail.
As always excellent track work my friend, always giving me ideas for my future svc layout. Been a long 4th of july week. Glad everything is back to normal. 👍🐺☣☢🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂☢🚂☢☢🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂☣☣☣☣☣🎲🎲🎲🎲🎲🎲🎲🦜🦜🐓❄🔥☕💯🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂