I've been trying to think through such, without a sufficient background in mesh geometry... What I keep coming to is simply the need for a contiguous volume to present to the slicer. Yep, embedding

Randy, Am 15.09.2022 um 15:38 schrieb Randy Hees: thanks for these answers. They help a lot. At least in the H0 kit, the end details are different from Rudnik's drawing. It seems I should add a few

Glenn, Very interesting post. A while back I was having issues in OpenSCAD with the "may not be 2-manifold" error during rendering.  Turns out the issue can be caused by coincident edges.  In doing

The early Billmeyer & Smalls built cars, particularly the4 wheel cars are very interesting, in part because they are built like no othercars (except possibly some copies built by Jackson & Sharp) In

Hello fellow narrow gaugers, currently I'm slowly building two D&RG Billmeyer&Small coal cars from Leadville Designs kits. The instructions leave open a few points, so I'm looking for help here. a.

https://glenn.pulpitrock.net/blog/posts/2022-09-01_168_decorations_pt2/ Less OpenSCAD, more printing, including a rather interesting print failure...

Gavin A simple solution is a music (spring steel) wire rod, with a Z-bend at each end to retain it in holes drilled in the switch and ground stand throw bars. This will let you

hello ben my original reply to you was on sunday sept 11 at 7:25 pm. from your email i hit reply, and it went out to the groupe as i also got a copy back. below is a copy paste of my reply kevin b

Larry you win the trick of the month prize. Thanks for sharing that. -- Brian Kopp Jacksonville, FL

But the trick is, when a mail comes from groups.io, look at the address, remove the = replace it with @, and eliminate the groups.io. For example the address in the email from groups was

These are much superior to the CI ground throws, I have used many, give them a try.

Jim, Thanks again for all the great photos and "tips"! Mark Lewis

That’s awesome! Brian

I never seem to do anything the easy way. I have one switch where I simply bent the wire up and no gizmo was used. I used a brass rod sleeve to guide the wire, a bell crank, and a flexible control

This is another platform mounting where an L-girder served as the mount. I put the fascia on later and it was a bit tricky to get everything lined up again and readjust the linkage for the extra

Jim, O.K. - I understand the concept. Thank you for the photos....a few more "bits" involved than thought, but I get it. Appreciate taking the time to explain and post photos of your method. Mark

Support of the throw rod varies. If it isn’t too far, I don’t support it with anything. However, the ground throw’s throw rod goes into a gizmo fashioned from brass, not the switch's throw rod

Very nice! Mike Conder Virus-free.www.avg.com

This is what I have done & used in the past. Just starting back up after a move back to the Midwest plan on doing the same thing again. Larry G

The Caboose Industries website has a list of products. I used to be an expert on these, but that was last century. Product Info (cabooseind.com) -- Ray in Colorado