Looking for a double-slip template

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Hi,

I need to find an HO #4 double slip template if I can. Fast Tracks has #6 & #8, but I want to use my jig when possible. I have a book that has a #4 slip, but not much help for a double slip.

Any one know of one that can be downloaded?

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http://www.handlaidtrack.com/category.php?id=542&link_str=126::525::542

For assembly jigs

http://www.railwayeng.com/turnouts.htm

Stub turnouts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_union

For nightmares

http://www.trolleyville.com/catalog-ho.html

For grider rail

Have fun

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Like this?

http://www.handlaidtrack.com/templates/tt-ho-s-4.pdf

Search out Wayne Roderick’s Teton Short Line page, he has a big section on slip switches. If I remember correctly this template is ok, because of the small frog number. Once you get to #6 and above things get more complicated to make reliable. I’ll try to find the references, later!

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Thanks, but I was looking for more like this one only in #4.

http://www.handlaidtrack.com/item.php?id=2226&link_str=334::337::451&partno=TT-HO-C-6

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Mr. Mouse,

That is a double crossover, rather than a doubleslip. A double slip is sort of two switches mounted point to point and then mashed together, putting all the working bits in the middle. In England they are called puzzle switches. The double crossover is more conventional, four turnouts joined by a crossing. See what happens if you lay the FastTracks 30 degree crossing between 4 #4s (I think it is off 2 degrees, so it may not work) (Also, I may have overthought the math, it might be the 14 degree crossing). You’l have to cut and past a bit, use a crossover template to see how to put it together (extend wing rails into the crossing, etc.)

Here’s a #8:

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What’s the offset distance between the two tracks? Ex: right rail to right rail, c/l to c/l, left rail to left rail. Is it exactly 2 inches?

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No, they are not. “Puzzle switch” is North American terminology, as is “switch” in general when referring to a set of points.

In the UK a switch is something you turn lights on and off with…

Mark.

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Hmm, I’ll have to look a bit, I was pretty sure that didn’t come from here, but it’s true that a ‘switch’ is points over there. So it doesn’t make much sense, I must have been misinformed. Nonetheless, what Mr. Mouse is looking for is a double crossover, not a double slip.

EDIT:

Mr. Newton is correct, it is a North American term, though I confess to never hearing it in North America. Perhaps I was not listening in the right places. Anyway, when one studies one of them, the reason for the name becomes obvious.

EDIT again:

Which is all very unfortunate, since the English usually have much better names for things than we do!

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going to build one?

Its essentially a crossing with turnout points. Some had moveable points also at the crossing juncture. Eliminates the middle frog railwork.

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I’ll pose my question again. Perhaps this time someone will answer it. Geez

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The one I built is N scale, if I remember correctly its spacing is around 1.25, I’ll have to check. As far as what Mouse is looking for, it is pretty arbitrary. As longs as the tracks are far enough apart (whatever that is in HO) and the crossing will fit, it can be built. so the question doesn’t really have an answer. You can print out templates from here :

http://www.handlaidtrack.com/category.php?id=334&link_str=334

and measure lots of stuff, and those are the measurements using the jigs, but they are not the only possible measurements.