7mm Track plan from screen to formation

[NewportRod]

When we were building the trackwork for Little Mill Junction apart from the concern of de-lamination we also also noticed that any water-based adhesive we tried caused the Templot plot to expand quite worryingly (most of our plots were 4' long). Solvent-based adhesives didn't give us enough opportunity to adjust the position of the plot.

Out solution , that we spent many weeks experimenting and wrangling over, was to cut small apertures approx 4mm x 1mm transverse to the rail and then mark the underlay using a biro through the plot in the direction of the rail.



The apertures can be seen above and marked underlay below



That aspect of LMJ worked well at least.

Rod

 

[3 LINK]

Personally I just stuck the A4 Templot sheets together using a prit stick and then laid the joined up sheets down on a bed of neat PVA glue ( well brushed in ). No problems what so ever, sometimes I think we tend to cause concern when there’s no need to .

cheers,

Martyn.

 

[Eastsidepilot]

When we were building the trackwork for Little Mill Junction apart from the concern of de-lamination we also also noticed that any water-based adhesive we tried caused the Templot plot to expand quite worryingly (most of our plots were 4' long). Solvent-based adhesives didn't give us enough opportunity to adjust the position of the plot.

Out solution , that we spent many weeks experimenting and wrangling over, was to cut small apertures approx 4mm x 1mm transverse to the rail and then mark the underlay using a biro through the plot in the direction of the rail.

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The apertures can be seen above and marked underlay below

View attachment 125276

That aspect of LMJ worked well at least.

Rod

Look's like Fred has two left hands in that shot

Col.

 

[Lancastrian]

Look's like Fred has two left hands in that shot

Col.

Ian