Dog Star
Western Thunderer
Just asking... because I do not know...
In the development of FB trackwork the "Pandrol" clip (trade mark acknowledged) has been a prominent feature for yonks and yet I am not aware of any articles in the modelling press about the characteristics of such track - hence these questions.
An early design of Pandrol trackwork involved a baseplate with four lugs, arranged with a lug at each corner of the baseplate. Each lug had a hole which could take a Pandrol clip, generally two clips per baseplate with one clip on each side of the rail. So there are two lugs on the outside of the rail and two lugs on the inside of the rail - from a search of Google images and peering over the many railway bridges in our village, clips are placed in the RH outer lug and the LH inner lug (RH and LH when facing the outside face of the rail).
Question 1/
Given that the majority of photos show track with clips in RH-outer and LH-inner lugs, when might clips be used with the LH-outer or RH-inner lugs?
Question 2/
All of the images which I have seen on Google, and the local permanent way, show the clips to be inserted from the free (outer) end of the lug. So far I have found no evidence of clips being inserted into the lugs from the inner end of the lug (that is... from the centre of the baseplate). Why are clips inserted only from the free end of a lug?
thanks, Graham
In the development of FB trackwork the "Pandrol" clip (trade mark acknowledged) has been a prominent feature for yonks and yet I am not aware of any articles in the modelling press about the characteristics of such track - hence these questions.
An early design of Pandrol trackwork involved a baseplate with four lugs, arranged with a lug at each corner of the baseplate. Each lug had a hole which could take a Pandrol clip, generally two clips per baseplate with one clip on each side of the rail. So there are two lugs on the outside of the rail and two lugs on the inside of the rail - from a search of Google images and peering over the many railway bridges in our village, clips are placed in the RH outer lug and the LH inner lug (RH and LH when facing the outside face of the rail).
Question 1/
Given that the majority of photos show track with clips in RH-outer and LH-inner lugs, when might clips be used with the LH-outer or RH-inner lugs?
Question 2/
All of the images which I have seen on Google, and the local permanent way, show the clips to be inserted from the free (outer) end of the lug. So far I have found no evidence of clips being inserted into the lugs from the inner end of the lug (that is... from the centre of the baseplate). Why are clips inserted only from the free end of a lug?
thanks, Graham