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Building pointwork / converting manufacturers pointwork
Happy New Year. All. I Had read about a “possible fault� With Peco points, and lo and behold a set of points had developed a “Hump†at the frog causing a “Step in the Track†, but I had already removed the spring to prevent that “Snap action†you get when the points are thrown , which was likely to invalidate any guarantee . Having already considered building my own points? I read a interesting piece online about a Modeller that had replaced the plastic sleepers with PCB on Peco points, A bit “over the top†? But with the Peco hump in mind I thought that may be worth a go? With nothing to lose except the cost of the PCB sleepers. Please advise. Kevin
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Advice: Making Peco Better.
and by looking into YMR Index
http://yourmodelrailway.net/view_topic.php?id=793&forum_id=46
under Points- you will find a few tips, etc
Ron
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Send it back, the spring is a user replaceable item and has nothing to do with the hump. It should not void the warranty. Sounds like dodgy plastic sleepers contracting.
Replace the sleepers with copper clad or pcb? Doable, especially if one gets broken, but why not just build your own? I can't imagine why you would to replace all of them. Unless it's to make it look more to scale, which is always a compromise and a losing battle because scale sleepers and spacing just looks weird (the narrow gauge track on full size spacing/sleeper issue). Peco track is HO track, even their new "OO" range. Do you have a link to the article?
Nigel
Edit. Found the thread on RMweb.
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This is a good method if you need a turnout that is a non standard radius.
You'll need roller gauges (DCC Concepts from Gaugemaster I think and this: http://www.doubleogauge.com/shop.htm ) and templates - there are a couple of programs; Templot.(free to download) and Trax2 (my preference because it is easier than Templot but you might find it hard to find - it consists of a very good instructional book and CD).
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8' 6" or 9' long. This topic has been discussed many times, scaling even 8'6" for 4mm/OO looks to many eyes a bit silly.
Make sure your rollers/gauges are suitable for the rail code, finer codes usually have a narrower rail head. If your points are correctly wired for DCC now is the time to reduce the gap between the point blades and the outside rails. Peco uses a very wide gap because of the power routing design design.
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DCCconcepts Track & Track-Making Parts
and this http://www.finescale.org.uk/
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I ask because I recently degreased a sleeve around a broken radio tuning knob with ISO.A to repair same (I dropped my trusty Panasonic transistor radio of some 40 years vintage) and the sleeve and shafts swelled up so much I needed to drill it out….
Jus' thinkin',
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8'6" in metric (4mm to the foot) is 34mm. Which is what my EM track is with a gauge of 18.2mm (which is a tad undersized compared to P4 at 18.84mm). Peco track is I believe 28mm, with a gauge of 16.5mm. This has 7.7mm of sleeper outside the rails on each side (almost the same as P4). Lay 16.5mm gauge track on scale real size sleepers and it really does look odd - there is too much sleeper at either side of the rails - 8.75mm. That couple of mm makes a difference. C+L Finescale OO track comprises by having the length I think of 30mm. Increasing the inter-sleeper spacing makes a better looking track than increasing the length of the sleepers.
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https://www.pecopublications.co.uk/peco-anounces-2016-new-items-programme.html
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and those that are, are easily fixed/repaired.
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Have a go at adding copper-clad sleepers, I bet you will be building your own shortly afterwards. Especially if you start using the new Peco OO track or even better C+L track if it's available.
One thing to note is that turnouts have wider timbers than track. Devil's in the details.
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Hi Nigel Thank you. This new Peco OO Track ??, That you mentioned as good or bad as it is? I have a lot of the “Old Style†flat bottom rail that is still “ Virgin Territory†. Where I read ? that the new stuff is Bull Head, if that is correct? How do they marry up , and would you want to??Best wishes. KevinHi Kevin,
Have a go at adding copper-clad sleepers, I bet you will be building your own shortly afterwards. Especially if you start using the new Peco OO track or even better C+L track if it's available.
One thing to note is that turnouts have wider timbers than track. Devil's in the details.
Nigel
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