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You have been busy. I've seen vids of those helix kits, reminds me of my Meccano days lol. I have a chop saw I use for wood, never occurred to me to fit a metal blade doh!

Teed, its not a blade, its a grinding wheel. Goes through metal, very cleanly. This was not a helix kit. This was a John kit, with shares in a threaded rod, company. It was 7 tier, 29 inches high. I have cut it into 2, 14 inch high twins. Now spaced about 7 foot apart, hence bridge.

Hi.

I beleive the NMRA standard for this is 63.5mm.

i'd be happy to print you a couple of these:-

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1666909

in either the 50.8mm or 63.5mm sizes, or perhaps scale to a different size...

UK OO is different.
Peco Setrack/Hornby is 67mm while Peco Streamline is 50mm centre of two parallel straight tracks.

Stese he wants the distance between the ends of the sleepers of two parallel tracks.

Walkingthedog wrote: ↑Wed Mar 17, 2021 1:39 pm Stese he wants the distance between the ends of the sleepers of two parallel tracks.

I cant really see the reason for this as any straight edge will give track 1 a nice straight line for fixing, then once line 1 is secured you can use the measurements or a couple of Peco SL-36 rail gauges to set line 2 and the straight edge is used again to correct any slight sideways movement in the second track etc.
Also we still do not know if the track being laid is Setrack or Streamline which determines the "6foot way" spacing!

I think it’s a good idea. Can’t see the problem. John says it is flexi.

Walkingthedog wrote: ↑Wed Mar 17, 2021 1:51 pm I think it’s a good idea. Can’t see the problem.

Points are the first problem then curves.
Cannot see any reason for using such IMO.

I agree with that Brian but John says lengths of flexi.

The objects linked can be altered to produce any spacing required...