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The "ball race" is 3D printed, and as it was a cold day and I didn't fancy going out to the garage and turning anything, the pivot is built up from bits. On the other stock the pivot is 1/4" mild steel with a 2 BA thread cut for about 3/16", silver soldered onto the square (ish)...

Each to his own, of course, but I would go with mild steel myself. Two reasons, 1) that if you are going to build your own track and pointwork you will need to solder up the frogs, if nothing else. 2) when did you ever see the sides of rails being shiny? I know you can paint them, as in the smaller...

Peter, Thanks for that suggestion. I'll take a look, although one of my aims is to scratch build where I can so that I can say the entire c**k-*p, I mean project, is all my doing :P Several people suggest Cliff Barker for track, does anyone have any views of steel, stainless steel or brass is best? ...

Well thank you all for the welcome and for your kindness in your thoughts and comments. I am of no help and am unable to point you in any direction for your particular project, however, this sounds like a fantastic project and I look forward to see it progress :thumbup: Steve thanks for your kind we...

This is my first posting on this forum, so I hope I am doing things right! I am very new to 16mm scale, but have been a modeller in 4mm and 7mm for a number of years, and have loitered around this forum for a few weeks. Having scratch built a couple of buildings in 7mm, I have decided I wanted to cr...