Road Chain System intro & instruction
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The “Road Chain System” is a fun and cheap alternative to the likes of “MagnoRail” and the “Faller car system”.
It is a 3D printable, semi-permanent setup. Easy to print and easy to assemble.
It is not meant to be a replacement for these systems but offers a DIY solution without the hassle of modelling roads, laying guide wires or plastering road surfaces, quickly bringing your static cars to life.
And if you already have the means to power/control a 5V servo, you can have this system up and running for under 20$.
0:00 - step 1: printing the track
0:37 - step 2: laying the track
1:36 - step 3: drive unit
2:57 - step 4: the chain
5:31 - step 5: car setup
5:56 - step 6: powering up! - ยานยนต์และพาหนะ
Beautiful! If you design a gear in the middle of the two tracks, you can power the other sense of driving. Thanks for sharing
As a retired designer working with CAD systems I would like to congratulate you on a very clean solution. It would be very interesting to see how it can be developed further, perhaps by producing canal sections instead of road ones to make a boat version? Brilliant stuff!
Tnx for the suggestion! Didn't even cross my mind!
I’m planning a rr layout with canal narrow boats. Hmmmm
It was a cool idea. I wonder if you could remount the gears to put a chain on the other side to drive cars in both directions.
I’m going to do that. The driver section is the same length as a straight track. I hope it works.
hmmm... print the road in blue without lane markings, model the canal banks to the side of the "blue road", they go up from the "road" surface of course, do a winding part where it goes left and right, maybe add a lake where you have one edge, one side of the lake with all kinds of plants on your layout and the rest of the biiiig lake is in the fantasy of the visitor or in a painting behind the layout... and of course, firstly elevate the lake to the height of the "road".
Maybe have a stretch of the canal in the foreground and most of the lake in the background to turn back maybe.
Or let the boats enter a tunnel, elevate the hilly terrain over the tunnel and don't make it too obviously, let the boats enter and leave the tunnels in a way that it's not so obvous that the tunnel brings the boats back to the point where they exit "another" tunnel. Maybe enter the tunnel on the right side of your layout to the right and let the boats emerge from "another" tunnel in the left of your layout from the left to the right. Make the tunnel open from the back of the layout, so that you can do some repairs if necessary. You could mount a backplate to the rear side (and right and left sides) of the layout, so that it's closed, but you could easily access the "blue road" in the tunnel if necessary...
So, I need to stop my fantasy here, all is said, use your own imagination to make it great!
Enjoy it and have fun with it!
I already had fun in my fantasy, imagining some different sceneries...
Yes, you need to elevate all of your layout to be higher than the canal (pardon, the "blue road"), but it could work. Make canal boats with these car tires in or under them and you are pretty much done, add a nice scenery, add some figures, each of them has something to do like in the real life, that makes the best sceneries... Maybe there's a farmer's market in a small town with fresh vegetables and fruits... a farmer is bringing in the corn from the fields...
You could pretend there are locks to go up and down some elevation change of the scenery when in fact the "blue road" is everywhere in the same elevation to make it easier, but to have some nice ideas for the scenery...
I think, the scenery might already be too crowded with all these features, pick a few of these features, make it nice, take your time, imagine how it might look, make it a good and relaxing scenery... not too hectic... just relaxing, that would be good with the narrow boats...
And give the narrow boats something to do. Either way back in time when they were transporting goods, that might be a hectic scenery in that time --- or it's a scenery of today with tourists on the narrow boats, maybe your family in one of them and your friends... Then make the machinery, the farmers equipment or cars if you have them in your scenery, not too old to make them fit with today's tourism if you like it this way.
But of course, it's your layout, you are the master of your layout, your rules apply, have fun and enjoy it!
Or it's a futuristic fun layout with UFOs instead of cars or boats, whatever you like...
Your fantasy is the limit...
(within the limit of the available space, time and money ...)
You could also model a road scenery with the terrain on the height of the road of course.
And I guess, be prepared to see shiny flattened tire tracks on the road... when you let them roll too often...
Beautiful work, I can imagine that within a large model railway layout. Looks magic with the vehicles seemingly running by themselves.
I have wanted to do something like this for so long. Having the ability to scale this up is my dream THANK YOU. I am working on a large-scale diorama for Star Wars and this is the perfect system to incorporate movement in 1/18 scale (hopefully.
I had a similar kind of race track as a child in the 70's. Was great fun.
Me too. “Matchbox Motorway”. Made a racket and the batteries lasted about 15 minutes.
@@kerryjones1508 i used to have races with my bruv. fortunately our dad bought the matching Matchbox transformer, which is still in use today powering his doorbell. :O)
This took me back to the late 70s and the Matchbox roadway- a similar idea but with a driven wire coil running in slots. Plastic pins glued to Matchbox cars pulled them around, controlled with a hand held device. Bloody noisy, but great fun.
I had one also, and if the spring got kinked, it created a lot of friction.
Thanks for reminding me of the name. I seem to remember switching the cars on and off the roundabout was not without mishap.
Very similar to the old Matchbox Motorway system but without the horrible great slot in the road suface to allow the "pin" to snag the spring and thus allow the car to move. Nice.
i had one of those :o)
I know you spent an immense amount of time coming up with this. Thank you for sharing.
Absolutely brilliant. I've been racking my brains trying to come up with a simple solution and you've solved it in one.Just need to buy a 3D printer! I'm sure that this idea will take off because bits so clever. Thank you for sharing
Danger, Will Robinson! 3D printing is a very versatile way to make *stuff* -- but it's a rabbit hole all its own. Next thing you know, you'll be looking for stuff (or even learning to design it) just to be able to 3D print it...
There's another video on YT by someone who's done a similar system with bicycle parts!
Man. for real.. tears came into my eyes.. this craftsmanship with this music is just beautiful . AWESOME
I don't have a need for something like this and don't know why it was recommended me. But this is an amazing, elegant, masterful design!
So excited to incorporate this into my layout. Thank you so much for developing such a clean easy and AFFORDABLE option. You’re amazing! I’ll post pics when I’m done
Such a clean and simple design. Brilliant.
Genius! Great job, and a nice simple design (that I'm sure took plenty of time to perfect).
I could see this as a fun addition to towns in a railroad train layout.
Thank you, my cats enjoy this immensely.
Great to hear! It drives dogs crazy though...
Hello all my congratulations, it's really great what you have done simple very simple and great at the same time bravo
I'll keep this in mind when I get to building my first layout, nicer than static cars, cleaner looking than slot cars, cheaper than other systems. Probably won't work for a grade crossing, but it's perfect for other things.
It will probably require some changes to work with a grade crossing, but it doesn't look impossible.
Standard steel rails may mess with the magnetic connection with the cars. The full size grade down the street from here has a section of special track. The ties and all but the very top of the rail are out of sight. From above you see asphalt, black rubber, the rail, a slot for the wheel flange, more rubber, and more asphalt. That style grade crossing lends itself to 3d printing. A small section of non-magnetic rail would prevent interference with the magnets. The lack of visible ties, gravel road bed, etc... allows for a thinner section of the track so the magnets don't get too far from the cars.
This would best be used on a seldom used siding, so the train could be synchronized with a long gap in the cars.
Hallo, ich bin echt beeindruckt!! Tolle Möglichkeit für "relativ wenig Geld" Bewegung auf die Modelbahnanlage zu bringen !!!! Grüße aus Deutschland/Essen ❤❤❤
Excellent video. Concise and informative.
I cannot wait to see this evolve into an entire miniature city full of traffic!!!
Not into modeling but this is fantastic! All kinds of upgrades can be imagined, but I'll leave that to you and others... :)
Good job !!! Congratulations from France !
What a neat project! Thanks random TH-cam recommendation
Thanks, that put a smile on my face :)
Damn you. Now I am going to spend the rest of the day thinking about junctions. :)
Oh no! Now I need a 3D printer and a bigger house! Nice solution, this, would look great alongside a model railway instead of having static cars
This is fantastic!
Love this. Well done
Great work!!!!!! Many thanks!!!!!!!
well done! this is months (years?) of work!
Maaan, that is a reaally cool idea!!
That is brilliant!
Super impressive!!
Awesome, I hope my purchase helps with further development
My layout dosnt have room for this but i so wish it did
this is sick!
I found printing the chain pieces together they didn’t come apart…so printed them as a single item but lots of them in one print worked out good 👍
They might take a little bit of force to break them loose depending on your printer, but they should come loose. Did you print with the proposed settings (extra fine profile, 0.3mm wall width,..)?
@@RoadChainSystem hi I’am using an adventure 4 which appears to print only in standard in flashprint…it’s not a problem as they do print nice
Wow thats a realy great idea please more videos and streets :D
This is crazy cool.Thanks.
Simple easy setup. A late suggestion, is looking at using Lithium Grease to lube to reduce friction and noise (if there is any)
I suppose another gear could be installed between the chains to then facilitate "traffic" in the opposite direction. Clean & clever, nice!
Amazing ! , Looks Like Magic
this is AWESOME!!!!!
A very precious und excelent idea and work ;-)
looks like a great solution for small vehicles to move around on a HO scale Train set.
Uauuu, lindo, parabéns. Ótimo trabalho
Many thanks for your reply.
Fantastic system! New subscriber (without a 3D printer unfortunately) 🙃
Maintenant ,reste à trouver une méthode pour faire rouler d'autres voitures dans le sens inverse en même temps que les autres. Très belle réalisation 🤗🤗👍👍
Connectez simplement un deuxième grand engrenage quelque part au premier, par exemple en utilisant une courroie de distribution comme celle utilisée dans les imprimantes 3D. Utilisez ensuite des roulements à billes.
I dont know how i ended up here but im glad i did
This is brilliant. I wish I had a 3D printer.
Great design
Faller in Germany make a similar system. But how cool is the system you just demonstrated.
Brilliant.
Pretty cool!
Bravo!!!👏👏👏
That is very clever 👍
Should have cars on other side of the road in other direction but very interesting good work!
Do it.
Why, they are on the right side and you drive on the wrong one. Statistically driving on the right side is much safer. But that is not easy to understand for those who voted for Brexit😂😂😂😉😉😉
Hi, the double lane was designed to do just that, just add another drive unit piece with servo on the opposite side...
@@steffenrosmus9177 he means have cars running in both directions
@@steffenrosmus9177please explain how it’s much safer, it makes no difference. But that isn’t what the OP was pointing out 😂😂😂😂
No breakers of speed limits. Perfect world...
Like to see your another video with the moving cars in the reverse track
OK Now i want to see them overtake in gaps of oncoming traffic !!! :P
Fabulous 🎉
amazing
Awesome!
It looks like it could do with a bigger gear ratio.
You already have the big sprocket. Maybe print a much larger gear wheel on top. More torque and less shuddering.
Hi, thanks for the suggestion. I initially tried this in the prototype design, but for some reason, it gave a lot of "wobble" between the servo gear and the sprocket gear
@@RoadChainSystem Try helical gears.
pretty cool
Very clever, I’ve done something similar
Klasse 🎉
This randomly popped up on my yt feed, and granted I _have_ been watching some model making videos, but this was a nice surprise.
If I could lob a suggestion, is there any reason you went with flat tab connectors? A figure 8 connector that sits in a shaped channel would lock both pieces together snugly and keep spacing consistent.
expert, thanks.😊
sick!
Superb! Already bought and downloaded for printing.
Very reminiscent of the Matchbox Motorway system - are you going to try doing a roundabout? 😀
Yes actually! Also some wider corner ratios are in the works. And I am also thinking about an Arduino driven bus stop ;)
@@RoadChainSystem Oh boy! Can't wait 🤩🤩
Have you considered a solution where the drive motor mounts under the baseboard? VERY elegant solution and I love that it is 3D printed.
Hi, yes I did think about it, but then I'm getting into the realm of "professional" systems like Magnorail and the Faller Car System where you really have to "plan" your road track and make holes and slots in your baseboard . And I really want to keep it as "plug and play" as possible.
@@RoadChainSystem Thanks for taking the time to reply !!!!
that's awesome
Hi just getting into printing, been highly focused on table top games, but more and more i see how its much bigger than that. Wonder how big the train community is, and if houses and little cars, garbage cans mailboxes all that stuff would sell?
Pretty much the same idea as the Matchbox Motorway i had when i was a kid in the 60s ,70s
Vey nice...
I was successful at scaling down the straight pieces enough for N scale. I maintained the same size track guide underneath. I tried to take a full lenght straight track, secure one end on a board. I then tried to bend 90 degrees. Although I didn't think it would work, I had to try. My straight tracks measure 3/4" wide overall. Experimentation continues. PS. where did you get those tiny magnets? I saw where you can get magnets on that website
Is the road %100 needed? Could i route a channel in plywood/foam and put a plastic sheet over it?
Nice
these tiny magnets seem quite powerful
Bonjour, je suis tombé sur la vidéo par hasard, que
faut-il avoir comme imprimante abordable pour pouvoir l'imprimé ? Merci d'avance, je suis en plein dans la construction d'un réseau à l'échelle n.
Cool
nice
Curious to see if this would work with Lego vehicles. Would the rubber wheels cause a hindrance? Fantastic job creating this.
Works the same way. Weight exerted by the total number of vehicles on the chain loop and the strength of the servo are your tunable parameters. Increase servo strength to move a larger vehicle, or a larger number of many vehicles.
I’m currently doing TT120. Very interested. Where do you get the motor from. Why can’t this be sold in kits. Would make sense.
Wow, incredible design. I guess it is H0 scale. Is it possible to have it scaled down to N scale?
The single lane track that comes with the starter kit doesn't have markings, so that can be used for N scale. For now, the double lane is only available in HO.
Can you do a stl file that prints single track pieces my printer an Anycubic Max S is having serious issues printing the x20 V2 track. The printed track breaks when trying to free the joints, my printer has Extra Fine print function and is set for maximum resolution. Regards Micheal
Hi, Could you provide a 'Track only' file please.
I'm intested in Turbo racing rc's but finding a modular track system is proving difficult, in the UK anyway.
Do you use magnets to connect the track pieces?
The "track only" files can be found here: cults3d.com/en/3d-model/gadget/road-chain-system-double-lane-track . You connect the track pieces with the little plastic lips that are part of the printed files.
One question - you mentioned one length of chain per road section. However the inside lanes of the curves are shorter than the outside lanes. Are there different lengths of chain to allow for this?
The chain is built up out of 13mm links. You can snap them together (or snap them apart) to make a chain that fits the amount of road pieces you have printed.
Can you make them go in the opposite direction as well?
Very good. Are there any in depth details on how you did all this please ? John
Hi, a lot of prototyping and testing really. The road pieces are really straightforward, but the chain and drive unit took a lot of iterations to get right.
good morning; i am able to aquire a LULZBOT MINI 2 PRINTER. just out of courisity and being a begginer in this field will this work with this design?
Hi, I don't know this printer, but you need a 200x200mm build plate to print the road pieces
Amazing and well done. If you can find a way to make this compatible with LEGO, you would be sitting on a gold mine.
Actually, it did cross my mind, because the new Lego road plates even have some thickness to them. But I think I would get a phonecall from their laywers real quick 😒
@@RoadChainSystem I dunno about that, FXBrick is still going strong with their 3D printed Lego gauge track.
Awsome, Just what I've been looking for, unfortunately the link is not working for me? is there any other way I can get the files from you please?
cults3d.com/en/3d-model/gadget/road-chain-system-starter-kit
cults3d.com/en/3d-model/gadget/road-chain-system-double-lane-track
cults3d.com/en/3d-model/gadget/garage-building-h0-scale
Great system, but why is the video so yanky? Was it recorded in a different framerate than the 30fps that YT uses?
Now that you mention it, it was recorded at 25fps, thnx for the heads up!
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wow 🙂
do you know the % i have to scale this down to british N scale? 1.148
3 questions... (1) can this be printed in N scale (1/160) ? (2) Can this run bi=directionally (both lanes? and (3) I don't have a 3d printer, is anyone printing these and selling them? Thank you in advance.
1: the single road track doesn't have any markings, so it can be used for N-scale, I'm working on a double lane with markings for N-scale though, kyp...
2. yes, the double lane was designed to do just that, just add another drive unit piece with servo on the opposite side.
3. Buy a 3D printer, the fun you can have for $300 is amazing!
Does it work with alternating turns?