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Hello,
I've recently convinced a good friend to donate 11m of chaired Tenmille track to the SHR (in return I'm going to build him a 40hp Protected Simplex). This means that during the summer I hope to re-build my railway to a much higher running standard. I shall keep you updated when I get my hands on some track and begin to lay it.

Well Done, that will be an uneven balance in your favour.

Look forward to running on the new, improved SHR, glad to hear he gave you the track, just make sure to cut at least every second tab away between the sleepers on the inside of the curve, then Tenmille gives you nice smooth curves

That'll be hard, considering it's of the wooden variety .

Brilliant news Will!

great news William look forward to the progress

Sounds like you'll have fun. All I can say is, if you dont have a cement mixer, don't lay lots of concrete or blocks!!! My back and hands are killing me!

I just have the breezeblocks the correct way up, and half buried in soil.

SillyBilly wrote:That'll be hard, considering it's of the wooden variety .

darn it, fell horribly in that trap didn't I Fogot just because my Tenmille is on plastic that you can get it for wood sleepers!

Off the mark now, fortunatley on Tuesday evening my mum picked up the first installment for the re-laying prgoram, I got given 3 straight(ish) sections and a point with long stubs, in exchage for one length of PECO SM32 I had spare . (Thank You Harry!)

Since then I have stripped off the years worth of grime in order to pull the rails out of the chairs for curving, this has been completed succesfully on one section and I'm leaving the others untill I've decided how much of the track needs curving.
Luckily the other night on another forum I noticed a posting about making a rail bender for a fixed radius out of wood and screws, this was perfect for the purpose I needed it for and after my father redesigned it a bit I set to making it.
45 minuites, one thumb stabbed with a screwdriver & a particulary rubbish TV program later, and we I had made the final adjustments to my rail bender, which allowed me to curve the two rails!

It looks as though the radius is a little sharper than the section of mamod track, this is because there is a certain degree of springiness (new word?) in the brass.
because the sleepers are nailed to battons underneath giving it good strength I'm going to have to chop the sleepers up in to pairs on a neighbours bandsaw for where the track curves, hopfully this'll work out ok.

Having stabbed my hand again with a screwdriver , I cut the long stubs off the point and dully packed up. As you can see from the above photograph Penrhyndeudraeth Junction is going to see some major changes in the track layout, mainly due to the long radius of the points compared to Mamod ones. Firstly the mainline is going to end up further across than before and there is no longer going to be another siding in the yard (this siding is pointless(not a pun) anyway as if 'Isabelle' is sat on it nothing can be positioned in the other siding!). The point lever needs changing as it collides with most of my stock.

Sorry for the extra long post!

Apologising for the long post!?! Does that mean I need to grovel at the end of each post I write in my FR thread?

Looks good Will!!!!! Look forward to more progress!

If you don't mind posting it here Will...what forum are the railbender plans on?

bungle80a wrote:Apologising for the long post!?! Does that mean I need to grovel at the end of each post I write in my FR thread?

But your ones are interesting, this seems to me like a load of blah, blah

steamyjim wrote:If you don't mind posting it here Will...what forum are the railbender plans on?

Of course I don't mind, Gnatter Box, I don't know what GN15 is, but it's an interesting forum , sort of makes you want to model in that scale! http://forum.gn15.info/viewtopic.php?t=347

Glad you find my posts intersting. Thank You! I didnt think yours was blah blah blah. It was to the point. I'll be interested to see what you do with the line as it changes. How long do you think your little rebuild will take?

Probably untill the first week of August, as I don't want to rip ir up untill after the final steam up the end of next week, and also I've got a three GCSE exams next month. Also depends when I get the rest of the track!

Thanks for posting that up Will!

SillyBilly wrote:Probably untill the first week of August, as I don't want to rip ir up untill after the final steam up the end of next week, and also I've got a three GCSE exams next month. Also depends when I get the rest of the track!

Tell me about it Will...

keep up the good work Will
looking forward to more progress

mhlr wrote:

SillyBilly wrote:I've got a three GCSE exams next month

Tell me about it Will...

I'd just feel so sorry for you both if I hadn't done three A-level politics papers this morning...