Mind The Gap (Flexitrack Tutorial Part 1)
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- One of the most important lessons to learn in model railway making is using flexitrack to plug-up any gaps that appear when building and designing it. This video takes you thru what you need, how to do it and demonstrates just how essential flexitrack is to your model railway. Enjoy
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Thanks will, genuinely something useful that none if the other channels have covered!
@ 17:13 I've seen real loose ones up close on an old disused siding. I call them plates and clamps.
Excellent description and video for the beginner.
Great!, saving this video.
The new layout is looking awesome! It will be coming up soon - I have so many vids to make!
Of you read the original PECO flexitrack instructions you'd see that they recommend first sliding the rail forward enough away from the sleepers before cutting it, then cutting the chairs off of the end sleeper to allow for the fitting of a fishplate when the rail is slid back into place. This method avoids the massive sleeper gap that appears if one does things the wrong way and removes the sleepers before cutting the rail. The recommended way eliminates the sleeper gap problem. It's the method I've always used with N, 009, TT and HO/OO PECO flexitrack.
PECO used to also sell flexitrack in steel rail for inclines so Triang Railways / Triang Hornby / Hornby Railways locos with magnethesion could haul extremely long & heavy trains up inclines. Modern locos don't have such hauling capabilities as the old Magnethesion locos.
You forgot the bluetack. Very good young man. Very interesting and informative. All the best.
Great vid Will as always....enjoyed every minute! Cheers, John.
lol thanks, I'm glad you like them so much!
Nice and Useful video. great vid. I did a flexitrack video and I had to stand right back to fit it in shot. each piece is 1 Yard long
DREMEL!, wear EYE PROTECTION AT ALL TIMES, i ended up at the eye hospital last month with a 2mm pice of metal buried in my eyeball , the pain was unbearable i tell ya, WEAR GLASSES!
Woah! Are you ok? Also, thanks for the advice! Sounded painful!
Just been cutting flex track today that's the way I do it.
oh yes definitely! They are essential!
I would recommend wearing eye protection too - sounds stupid perhaps but with bits of sharp steel flying about everywhere but it might be worth thinking about.
MisterHampshire true
MisterHampshire I know what an eye injury feels like
Very clear explanation very good
Great video, as usual!
Awesome video! Very helpful.
I would recommend the use of track-setta.
Very good tutorial! I have always been told and heard those bits on the sleeper are called chairs because the rail "sits" in them ;) I think you need to get percy a hi viz vest and hard hat if hes working for network rail lol
Great video as usual Will, that reminds me that I really need to get a pair of those track cutters :)
It'll be coming up!
Great video well done.
great video, really interesting
good video keep up the work
the joys of Flexitrack :-D
Love the videos will if you could please please put more videos on like 2 a week would be lovely please because I wait every day on RUclips for your videos to cume up that's how much I love them so please can you play videos twice a week thanx
thanks for the comment!
Great thank yo so much needed this to do my proper layout hope yours is going well
TC
you could do Ho points you could cut small groves in the lego track to run the ho track through the groves in the lego track it can be acheved
Don't necessarily need to waste a flex track piece. Can cut any piece.
Warning on the rail nippers' use: Only use them for nipping rail and not on wire or other metals. Other metals may be hard enough to damage the cutting edge. I found out the hard way and ruined a $17 pair of rail nippers on "just this one little wire". I now have ripple-y nippers.
This is a track attack, this is a track attack, this is track attack!
true! Tho a room would have to get quite hot for that to happen I think.
Just a general observation, why mess around with sectional track at all? Why not use a larger section of flex track to fill up the entire original gap? The less joints you have the better the electrical conductivity along the entire "right of way".
I saw this first at 12.00 last night
If you cut the tie plates off with a craft knife first the fish plates will fit on without losing the sleepers then you don't have a gap problem in the first place
Why would you want your track to have gaps that wide? I always fit the track pieces as close as possible to avoid derailments
I must get some of them track cutters
Why not build a bridge over the Lego layout so you can put the sidings inside it?
haha that sounds great!
put some tape on the cutters over the jaw on the waste side and it will catch the cut off piece saves taking granny out or standing on it .
Could you please show us you "upstairs layout?"
We'll really like to see it.
I use flexitrack all the time
Do you have any plans to do a unboxing video on the Railfreight liveried 37 seen in this video?
Great video by the way.
ah okay good luck with all future videos :)
You should use flexitrack for the whole model railway, set track is for train sets, but maybe your videos are aimed at younger modellers, so set track is a good option for them...
that's asinine.
Isn't it easier to use a craft knife or something for taking off the surplus sleepers, since that won't risk cutting through the rail as much as using track cutters?
I'm a tad off topic here, for which I apologise, but I wonder if I could ask (gently) how things are going with the N gauge project? Many thanks, David
Yeah I heard that too but they have about 10 names - seriously lol and with my videos being seen around the World, I have to know what they all are!
Old video, I know...but why not put the lego loop on the outside?
What about designing a railway series?
I have a lot of American viewers - I'm just trying to be polite as well as point out how different names exist for the same thing depending on where you live.
What would happen if hornby and other brands used bull headed rails. Just a random question from thin air.
You'll see!
thanks :)
Luvin' the vids!
And your challenge of 'Most Famous Skirting Board in the World'... I think yours might, just might, be beaten by Tom & Jerry's! The home of Jerry the mouse was in all their cartoons.
Or it might just be remembered by middle aged people like me! :-)
Will, Get on with it!!! lawls
Absolutly beautiful. Hows the n gauge desk layout coming along? Hauling any m&m 's yet?
are you going to work on the n scale layout? cause I am really curious of what the layout is going to look like and maybe the new trains that is going to transfer some candy back and forth :)
I've found it easier to gradually clip down on the rail before the final cut, then it won't fly away.
and the reason you can't cut down a longer bit of hornby/peco track is ?..............................
make a bridge over the lego layout
can you do a southeastern train review by bachmann?
and also a premium eurostar train?
Xuron 2175B Track Cutter. Around £12. Most model and craft shops will do them. :-)
I am having trouble fitting fishplate to my wren oo gauge flexi track
Did you ever start the new layout?
Lovely video Will. I use a lot of Flexitrack on my layout and I've found it stays cleaner longer.
BTW if you don't mind me asking why had you deleted this video?
Hello, I came across your video. I am currently working my way through building my own railway. I want to use a mixture of flexi and set track. If I could ask, what fishplate/track joiners do you use? Thanks Tim
lol cheers for the comment matey
How easy or hard is it to permanenty bend Flex-track to simulate old lines?
What's the best flexible track to use, Hornby or peco? What did you use?
my loco throws its self off with the slightest gap inbetween the lines
you could have just lifted up the lego track to go over the Hornby loop
Why not just cut down the short straight ?
Hello Will hope you dont mind me asking but will you make part 2 near the end of 2018 or sometime in 2019?
10/10
HELP!!! I try using peco track pins but i can't seem to get them through the sleepers without bending... i tried pushing through with pliers and hammering... no success yet. does anyone have some tips?
thanks
Are you going to do a review of the bachmann class 37 in series 4?
Will wire cutters or other cutters work?
btw i live in Crewe aswell
haha lol true! I did!
HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU TALKED ABOUT THE LAYOUT 'UPSTAIRS' CANT YOU SHOW US YET???
+Peter Irving He is not going to do a layout, he hasn't got the skills. He keeps on calling this a layout, but it is just a train set stuck down with blue tack!
+heelfan1234 I doubt its that. I'm sure he has a perfectly good reason.
He's been hinting lately that something big is about to happen in his life (maybe something to do with that trip into London to meet with the Hornby people?).
So I suspect he's moving and will be selling his house.
Thus he can't build a real layout yet.
can get a similar make from ebay for about £4 just as good
i looked on wikipedia there is no yet worlds most famous peice of skirting board
Could you use another tool such as wire cutters to cut track?
SeaboardRailroader nope tried this does not work it crushes the track not cut
Zeuron.
Seventh comment! Wow! I was quick!
Its famous for being famous
Can't you just slip the railroad ties into the track
Hi, can u tell me the name of those track cutters? I need a pair so much!
lol yes it is pretty long stuff!
When your entire layout is flexitrack...
Why not just cut the standard straight you showed us first, the one that was about 1cm too long!
can flexi track bend from side to side to get a really gentle curve?
TheCornishTrainspotter yes but you would need to trim the track as one side be longer than the other
Chris Adams ok, thanks bud ☺
EMERLD NIGHT I UNLOCKED THAT TRAIN ON LEGO CITY UNDERCOVER & I GET 2 TO DRIVE IT
Oh yeah? Well the model is WAY better in real life.
I use that to cut my guitar strings
How is he supposed to interview a train? :S
Why is his skirting board so famos
lol okay
Can you tell me a good model railway website