Re: The Potters Orchid Railway
Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2022 9:27 pm
Thanks and you will have to come down for a visit and run with BenG
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Captain Plod has also printed off your ballast trial formulas to compliment his researchOld Man Aaron wrote: ↑Fri Sep 16, 2022 2:31 am With my Bundy (designated travelling loco) finished, I certainly shall!
I'll certainly be interested in reading about your findings. The cement dye in my ballast faded a bit over the year of that line's existence, but the ballast otherwise needed zero repairs, repeated downpours be damned.Hydrostatic Dazza wrote: ↑Thu Sep 22, 2022 9:12 pm Captain Plod has also printed off your ballast trial formulas to compliment his research
Hydrostatic Dazza wrote: ↑Fri Sep 23, 2022 1:34 am Today there is a break in the rain and as Captain Plod is off this weekend to Gympie to do his two annual guard runs so he and MAM devoted a couple of hours this morning to mixing and pouring 6 x 20kg of Bastion Ready Mix that was obtained from the big Green Box last night. As well as more plants
Next is some steps here and there and some tidy up and then the terra forming and fun of fun fun, track laying.
On your mark, set, go
Done. The no concrete space is for the trestle bridge to fill one day, when I make it. I want to make one trestle bridge in my life before I die. Slow but very steady moving locos (Slomo equipped ) hauling wobble free across the trestle with the whistle howling with emitting vapours on a moonlit evening, should look bloody marvelous.
There is 2-3mm super elevation over the 110mm width of the curved track bed. For the most part this occurs naturally when all is bolted up, then a wee bit of fiddle here and there to settle all in when one does the boxing and a final check this morning before the pour.
Looking over the top of the Orchid green house from the back deck.
Thankyou, but it is rather gritty with sand and dirt and leaves underfoot at the moment.Peter Butler wrote: ↑Sat Oct 01, 2022 10:43 am Not only is the work you do always to the highest standard, but the space you work in is kept in clean and tidy condition, essential for safe working and ability to find everything needed to complete the task efficiently. Top marks all round!
I am intending to follow your words and music as some time ago saw your results and methods and stored that in the Mk 1 cranium computer.Peter Butler wrote: ↑Sat Oct 01, 2022 11:15 pm Time spent on research and sourcing correct material will be worthwhile. Your choice of small scale, angular, natural stone is best suited to fixing with SBR (or Aussie equivalent) and I have been using the method since about 2016, much of which is still in situ.
You do have an advantage in that your track base is concrete, therefore permanent and stable. Some of mine was on treated wooden boards with felt covering, which moved and perished, although the ballast was still firm.
Forum users can confirm the best way of applying the SBR is to soak the ballast thoroughly with undiluted SBR and then cover for a few days to protect from rain (a regular UK problem!) after which you will notice a colour change. Just ignore the alarming blue appearance... it will fade... eventually!
Try a test piece first, once set it needs a hammer and chisel to shift it.