135 - How to Design a Lift Gate with Safety Stops

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In this video, we'll be covering how you can design a lift gate for your layout. We'll go over the basic design elements, safety stops for the train and a pulley mechanism to keep the gate open.
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@RoyEltham Год назад

Nice lift gate setup. I like the pully and weight system especially.

@DubaiTrains Год назад

Thanks. The pulley system just hit me one day. It took only 5 minutes to set up!

@frankhellman6879 Год назад

I do love the putter shaped train stop. The shape is perfect. Reminds me of the early industrial machinery.

@DubaiTrains Год назад

Form follows function!

@SevenWelt Год назад

Hello, Very Nice work from you!👍

@DubaiTrains Год назад

Thanks Steven

@SevenWelt Год назад

@@DubaiTrains 😀

@robertschmidt6383 Год назад

Good idea and implementation. Hard subject to address. What works for you is the right one. 👍😊

@DubaiTrains Год назад

Thanks. No topic is too hard to address! But yes it is not easy.

@SouthShorePlasticSurgery 5 месяцев назад

Your counterweight looks to me to be a VERY old top block to a wood-workers plane. I believe that would have clamped down the blade to a lower block, which would have been flat on the bottom with a slot in it for the blade to pass through. I believe the hole in your "counterweight" is for not only attachment of the top block to the bottom block, but, you would also be able to tighten / loosen the blade by tightening or loosening the fastener that passed through the hole, thus adjusting and fine tuning the position of the blade. This would be my best guess. As for the work on the lift gate, well done! Looking forward to see the entire system implemented! Jonathan

@DubaiTrains 5 месяцев назад

Thanks Jonathan. I have been using the life gate for over a year now and it works great. The only part I did change is the rubber band, that broke within weeks. I updated it with a cable and counter weight.

@4everdc302 Год назад

Cool lift gate with the unconventional shape. 🚂🇨🇦🇦🇪🚃🚃🙋

@DubaiTrains Год назад

It always starts out as an easy project.... But once you get in the details it quickly 'lifts' out of hand.

@graham9473 5 месяцев назад

Good point with the power and stopper

@robertlewis7237 Год назад

THANK YOU FOR DETAILED VIDEO AS GREAT WATCHING

@DubaiTrains Год назад

You are welcome!

@gerdeguelle1967 Год назад

Nice video update I like it.

@dundasjunctionmodelr.r-jam8267 9 месяцев назад

I like the counter weight idea, my lift gate is in the middle, Hinges must higher than track height to work, great idea ,

@DubaiTrains 9 месяцев назад

Thanks. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with!

@ronduz1281 Год назад

👍👍👍Awesome engineering

@DubaiTrains Год назад

Paying off that degree one lift gate at a time 😂

@fredpryde8555 Год назад

i been looking to build a lift gate what a great idea thanks man

@DubaiTrains Год назад

Your welcome. Have fun building it!

@grahammoores7244 5 месяцев назад

great job just a thought drill a hole were the coupler contacts the golf club so it makes contact on the buffers

@DubaiTrains 5 месяцев назад

Ah ok. to better align the gate with the benchwork.

@grahammoores7244 5 месяцев назад

no so that the impact is on the buffer not the coupler @@DubaiTrains

@redhound4889 Год назад

Hi, you could use a 'bar/counter flap catch', to secure the gate when open.

@DubaiTrains Год назад

Thats Red. I had to look that one up. That's exactly what can work! Let me mention it in my next vlog. I like my counterweight for now as it also releaves a part of the weight. Imagine someone accidentally letting go of the bridge, now the fall will be dampened or even stopped.

@michaeldeckert6023 Год назад

Great progress! Did I miss what kind of hinge you used on the wall side of the gate? Is it a piano hinge?

@DubaiTrains Год назад

Hi Michael, you didn't miss it because i didn't mention it ;-) Yes i used a piano hinge.

@JDobbs726 Год назад

I could be wrong but that metal weight looks like a brace for the rails or for one in a switch.

@DubaiTrains Год назад

It does look a bit like a brace, but how would it work. The hole is in the wrong place.

@JDobbs726 Год назад

Not reay sure that's just what came to mind.

@Peepjouster27 Год назад

Love the mechanical stops, but I can't help but wonder how an electrical stop could be incorporated, with power districts on either side which would cutoff power upon lifting

@Peepjouster27 Год назад

MOSFETs and spring loaded pins to complete the signal circuit maybe 🤔

@DubaiTrains Год назад

The issue is that the unpowered section of track needs to be far too long. It would leed half way into the switching area.

@Peepjouster27 Год назад

@@DubaiTrains makes sense, did get the gears turning in my head though. And well done again on the mechanical implementation, that’s remarkably clean in my opinion

@DubaiTrains Год назад

@@Peepjouster27 Thats good! Keep those gears turning. What works for me doesn't have to work for you.

@donaldshroyer8633 Год назад

Counterpoint : I use a duck under facilitated by a mechanics stool. I glide back and forth, never impacting the train paths.

@DubaiTrains Год назад

Hi Donald. I had a duckunder before but always found it an excersize to use it. In practice the gate is always open unless I'm running trains. For now I'm working more on the layout than running trains.

@l.rod2827 Месяц назад

Nice design, bridges always present a challenge as each application is unique to the layout. I agree with the safety stop approach with your layout, electrical safety switches wouldn't work as well. I used the safety switches as my layout design didn't require it, but I also can run into the same issue should I run them in reverse for any reason. I used a linear actuator for the lifting mechanism. Check out my video... Model RailRoad Bridge Episode 2

@DubaiTrains Месяц назад

A linear actuator sounds fancy! You could equip that with a motion sensors so the gate opens automatically when you approach it. Of course all interlocked with the rail traffic ;-)