3d printed 5ft 3 in track

[Rob R]

A little taster:-

Early days yet, 25mm gauge for S Scale (1:64).

Elegoo Neptune 4 Pro, Elegoo PLA filament, 0.4mm nozzle

Peco code 75 rail

Wagon by Paul Greene

Rob

Edited December 11 by Rob R
Wagon credit

[Weshty]

That's a very cool implementation of 3d printing.   Coming up on 17 years since I bought the SSM range from Paul.   A complete gentleman.

[Galteemore]

Track looks so right. Excellent 

[Horsetan]

Pointwork will be the challenge 

[Rob R]

Fortunately Paul has most of the pointwork for Broombridge already, recycled from Kilbrandon I believe.

For new work, copperclad or spiked to ply sleepers would be easiest until the guys at Templot come up with something.

R

[David Holman]

Such a lovely scale. S is actually 1:64, so 5'3 works out as a rather splendid 63/64ths of an inch, which in metric is 25.003mm.

 I won't tell if you dont!

[Rob R]

6 minutes ago, David Holman said:

Such a lovely scale. S is actually 1:64, so 5'3 works out as a rather splendid 63/64ths of an inch, which in metric is 25.003mm.

 I won't tell if you dont!

Yes, but at what temperature?

The prints are actually coming out at 25.1mm at the moment but that should allow for the natural tendency for flexitrack to reduce in gauge a little when bent.

If it proves to be an issue in testing it is easy enough to tweak.

When I get the odd 25 hour day/ 8 day week I'll take a look at 4mm and 7 mm and if possible post the .stl files on here for all.

Rob

Edited December 11 by Rob R

[David Holman]

All power to your elbows good sir!

[murrayec]

KMCE had mastered 3d printed pointwork but sadly is not with us anymore.....

https://irishrailwaymodeller.com/topic/7108-kmces-workbench/page/10/#elControls_221856_menu

He did give info on his track making in some of his threads like above

Eoin

[Rob R]

Thank you. I will study them later this evening.

R

[Sea Breezer]

1 hour ago, murrayec said:

KMCE had mastered 3d printed pointwork but sadly is not with us anymore.....

https://irishrailwaymodeller.com/topic/7108-kmces-workbench/page/10/#elControls_221856_menu

He did give info on his track making in some of his threads like above

Eoin

His DSER rolling stock was fantastic too. Really professional stuff.