The Märklin - pillars for the tin-bridges (7064, 7065) have a problem: The most examples are bent and distorted. Often they became unusable at all.
A friend saw the distorted pillars on my layout and had the idea, that they could be printed. So I tried to copy them.



Original on the right, reprinted on the left. A single 6mm and two 6mm parts stuck together in the foreground.



I have drawn versions in 6mm, 30mm and 60mm. Märklin never offered them in 60mm. But this saves printing-time.




So far I didn't found a colour which matches the Märklin - colour exactly. Here I tried a EDDING - spray, hazel-brown. Not the best, but can be used. Original for comparison.




But there is a little disadvantage: A 60mm pillar takes six hours to print on my printer in best quality (0.1 mm slices). A version sliced 0.2 mm which is still good and usable still takes more than three hours.

EDIT:

Today I added the base-plate 7066. Usually they are in better shape than the pillars, but I liked to have the complete system:









The files: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2764885


Edit II:

The pillars for Märklin metal bridges and ramps( 7161, 7162, 7163) are not useable for double bridges. Two pillars side by side are wider than the regular distance between two tracks in the given geometry (77.4mm). This has historic reasons. When the pillars appeared first in 1948, Märklin had only one radius. The 3700/5200 tracks appeared in 1949. So I designed these pillars which are similar to ones sold by Märklin between the late 1940s and 1970 but suitable for double - lines. This product is about 70 years late. But better late than never.









All files for the double-pillars: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2783344


Regards

Markus

Edited by user 05 February 2018 22:42:52(UTC)  | Reason: New part added.

Very nice!

You are hard to keep up with, I urgently need to publish my new projects to counter .

The printing time is still reasonable I guess, the night has plenty of hours , and after all, modelling is supposed to be a slow hobby.

Thats fair.

You are right. I have put mine in a closet to be able to do higher temps for PETG and ABS. I should probably also install a fire alarm inside for more ease of mind. It appears mini automatic fire exthinghuisers also exist. Maybe that is also something for in a cabinet.

I have a question on your model: how did you do the brick shapes, and how good is the quality after printing? How much can it be scaled down if any? I am thinking of making my own printable 'faller kit' of my house, and probably the main drawback would be the lack of detail on outside walls.

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Hi all,

I added pillars for double bridges above.

Regards

Markus

Hi Åke,

Interesting idea. But the company has closed its operation in Germany: https://www.blazecut.de/ The notice on the web-site does not look trustworthy at all.

Regards

Markus

Hi Dereck,



Something like this? I used AUTODESK MESHMIXER to transform the bricks. But I would not like to travel in train which runs over a bridge with pillars like this.

Yes, there are printers which can print more than one colour. But they are limited to the filament-colours which are offered by the industry. And these colours match LEGO but in the most cases they are not usable for modelling.

Regards

Markus

Hi,

More like this?



Like a castle?

Regards

Markus