A huge thanks for the overwhelmingly positive reponce, I can't thank you all enough. (Follow up video in the works) Some of you will be pleased to know we have now put US Code 83 and HOm rail aligners into production and they should be avilable in the next couple of weeks.

You should get those patented, because the larger companies may jump on them

I've bought and used the OO/HO size and very impressed! Much better than using individual copper sleepers. Recommend these to anyone. Just what the market needed. Well done!

these joiners are SO SO clever! They will sell really well.

Hi Gwion, Great additions for Model Railroaders. The Rail Aligner is a fantastic help to build 'modular' & 'lift out' section layouts. Thanks for sharing!

I think you could go on the different radious curves, must be a market for that !! Not all joining is straight.. Brilliant product 👏

Fantastic idea. Patent it if you haven’t already. I’m just beginning to consider a shelf layout which will go around the house and therefore need several module sections in the guise of bridges and I think these will be just the ticket.

Been out of model railways for a while now sadly but I’m eager to get a layout sorted with my first house next year. It’s great to see innovation coming from real people who are passionate about the hobby! All the best mate!

Love your track idea! Incredible work! I wish you the best of luck in your new business!

Those rail alignment sections are wonderful. You've really thought it all through. I'm just planning some modules and I think they will be included.

Hi Gwion, I saw these in a recent edition of Model Railway mag - had to try them, so I've ordered a set from a supplier in UK who ships to Australia. I reckon these are literally a game changer for so many of us who have to life/separate track on our layouts. Finally, someone has come up with an idea to make re-joining track easier. I can't wait to get my set installed. Good luck with your business, I hope you get an Australian retailer on board. Best wishes, Angus.

I like the products, Gwion. I wish you luck.

Looks like a good product to have especially for the leftout section. I model in HO code 83 and i hope yall make one soon. Good luck out there

Great ideas, all the best with your new business.

I've been looking at ways to show the power polarity on a Fleischmann turntable - I think the ProTrack Power Indicators will be perfect for this. By installing one at each end of the turntable and under the approach track/s it will make sure the track polarity is correct. Am looking forward to the order arriving and installing on my layout. Big thumbs up for this.

Hi Gwion, some great products there buddy. Good luck with the new venture. Catch you soon (with a bit of luck), regards Bobby 'T'.

Great Products! - I hope to see people using them on their layouts and I shall keep them in mind once I start my layout project

Congrats on the new business. Looks like a good product!

Great product Gwion, a simple solution and FR4 is very strong being a glass-fibre laminate so should handle knocks well. I guess also a nice fast (permanent) way of making an electrical connection would be to panel pin through the plated holes and then solder at both ends, or bend the bottom end and slide a terminal block onto them.

Hi Gwion. I remember the great innovations you developed for The Great Model Railway Challenge. These products look excellent and of high quality, so will be ordering some today. I hope your new business is very successful, and look forward to more products in the future. Best wishes, Chris

Well done. Makes me want to dust off my old train set from childhood and get to work on it. Great products indeed.

This is such a good idea! There are more and more modular layouts these days, running over multiple boards and on my own boards these will be incredibly useful!

I saw the rail alighners advertised in one of the model rail mags thought they looked just what I wanted so going to order from1 of the shops. The power indicators look really useful as well again just what I need in my storage yard. Great products atb Andy

Thank you Gwion for coming up with your clever product. I have ordered a 00 bullhead pack to try out on my base boards Regards TONY

nice products Gwion, I am starting a new project in N scale and the pro track rail Aligner may be the thing im looking for so I will order two packs and try them out. Tim

Going to keep my eye on this. I have a drop down section on my layout. Granted, it wont be raised or lowered on a regular bases, but it still moves.

Excellent idea. I hope you patented them or are there similar on the market. Best of luck and I'm sure you will come up with ideas for other rail material.

What a brilliant idea, I could have used this when I built my layout, good luck with it.

Well done on starting your own business with your own products. Not easy to do that, this is very impressive. I will keep an eye out, as I have my own 00 layout.

Best of luck, looks like a great product, well packaged, What would be a killer version of that is if there was a way of not only aligning the track but making electrical contact cutting out the wires between baseboards. Don't get overwhelmed by the odd requests for unusual scales and track, You need to get what you've already done out to as many retailers and fast and build up a network that is big enough to take you forward.

So glad i've seen this, so confined by space i'm going to build a modular set up designed to be stacked in storage, this product will be perfect!

You have got good ideas,suitable for every railway modeller ! Cobgratutlations ! Greetings from Germany !

That’s absolutely brilliant! A really neat solution.

Brilliant ideas, can’t wait for more.

As someone who makes portable layouts: I'LL TAKE YOUR ENTIRE STOCK

Fantastic idea. These are perfect for my layout plan.

Great idea for the rail joiners GRD and they look like a good starter point for your business venture as Model-Tech. I am about to build a 00 scale end to end layout using 3x BRM small board modules (2 per pack). As yet a track plan isn't fully fleshed out to how many I would need. Though I'm aiming for three lines and four long sidings across the 5x joins, with further modules that could be added later. These rail joiners seem to be the ideal solution for this project, as you have shown here for crossing the gap from baseboard to baseboard. They seem to make a superb alternative way to do it other than using the copper clad sleeper or brass screws under the track to solder too. Any way good luck in these uncertain times with Model-Tech and thank heavens we have our modelling hobbies etc to stop us from going off the rails.

Saw these online today. Glad I saw your video. I am going to order some now 👍🏻💪🏻

Looks very interessting. I will definetly try these for internal joints at my NTRAK modules.

Diolch yn fawr matey. Just stumbled across this video in my recommended section and I'm literally making a start on my track laying this weekend which includes a hinged board to allow access to the workbench. I'd not really put much thought to aligning the rails, but this ticks all the boxes and I shall certainly get a pack. I'll share the work 👌🏻

Excellent products! Stay well and keep on chooching! 😊

A great idea. I do plan to build a modular layout in OO sometime soon and the Rail Aligners would be very helpful. Martin (Thailand)

What a brilliant idea ! I wish you much success....

Looks great, just ordered a set for my new project. Thanks!

Gwion great products! Good luck with your company. Greetz from Holland, Onno.

Amazing stuff, and just in time for me as I've designed my first module but haven't laid the track yet! Out of interest, what were the boxes you're using for your baseboard? They look like they could be very handy, especially as I'm modelling in N!

Welcome back, hope you're doing well. So you now you run Simnation & modeltech, you're going to be very busy I suspect. Good luck with the model railway business!

What a great idea. I do hope the business does well. Thank you.

AWESOME just waiting for someone to make a PLUG and play electrical system with points like connecting with a CAT 5.6.7 cable where you just plug in and away you go points signals etc I mean i know we are there but surprised HORNBY did not jump into something that is even more EASY PEASY but this it the best thing i have seen for the dreaded joining base boards its slick clean and at distance I would not even know there was a join.

Brilliant idea! Well done.

Great product I've used these on my lift up section.

If you enter the US markey, I hope you would investigate having them made here. Still plenty of companies that can etch glass epoxy or phenolic boards.

Fabulous cant wait till you get into the US these are amazing.

This is an awesome idea, especially for my apartment layout which I might have to split when I move

i wish you the best with your business! God speed brother.

Great product. All the very best with the business.

Those joiners and power indicators are very smart and amazing.

Pretty crafty idea, I hope some day they are available in the US.

I needed those rail aligners about 12 months ago. Been having a nightmare with an n gauge lift out section. Expect an order coming soon.

Very Clever mate good luck with the business Best Regards Andrew

The track aligners look a great idea, better and less fiddly than using copper clad sleepers

That's actually a great thing, especially this, I believe would fit to the up-lift parts of bridges or swing bridges. The only sad thing for me is that there's nothing for the 3-rail system (Marklin)...

I’m sure I’ve seen on one of your previous videos that you are a member of Swansea Modellers Group. I was a member there once. It’s great to see someone close to home getting reward out of their passion

Gwion, I've been installing the HO aligners onto my layout. As the layout is modular and multi level and the room has two access doors, I have a challenge. The first things I have learnt are, don't install a joint on a curve in flexi track.!!!! Unless you Solder and secure the curve before cutting the rails. Far better is to place a section of set track at the postion of the joint. Then cut and postion the Modeltech aligner. There is none of the spring and tension that comes with flexitrack. Great product, thanks.

Would be interested in seeing a how to video on how to install the pro track aligners. Any plans to do such a video? Great product idea and will definitely try them out

Please tell me you are NOT using Chinese manufacturing for your products? Eastern Europe have some great cosy effective options for manufacturing.

Gwion they look fantastic, I really hope they take off for you and you do well out of them.

I would really like to import some of these into the US as I think I could use some of the Code 83 track you mentioned (by some I mean a lot), however, college is quite stressful right now so my wall mounted railroad is on hold. speaking about that I need to 3d print some stuff for an Ahearn band drive my neighbor gave me a while back.

To late for my current moduler layout as track laid and balasted. But definitely will keep these in mind for my next layout.

This is such a great idea. Unfortunately, living in the US and doing three-rail O-Scale with Atlas/Ross track, I can’t use these. I hope this works well for you. Good Luck!

I've bought some of the rail aligners from GLR and they look very good.

SUPERB just what we need, Thank you.

I wish you the best of luck with your new business :D

Great idea. Wish you well.

A great looking product. Would be interested to see how people are using them and hiding the sleeper spacing for display layouts.

I feel like the Rail Aligner is perfectly fitted for moving show model parts for trade fairs ect.

great approach to the problem.

Your products look excellent. You have addressed the UK market very well but may I suggest you get cracking on the US and Euro markets before someone else beats you. Besides, their markets are many times the size of the UK’s.

I'd Love to bring these to the club I'm with and advertise them. Really cool. I just finished creating a modular setup with my long N scale layout. Had to cut it in half and use copper board segments on the rails where the edges are. This product would have come in handy! Very nice. Let me know !

nice work.. good luck. Defintely be good to see the rail aligner things for HO code 83 (Peco US track) .. quite a few people in UK/Europe use it too :-)

Well done mate. Nice products. Good luck. Keith

Rails over baseboard joins are a pain - especially if the wood framing warps. These are a really brilliant idea!!

Great idea! Looks amazing :)

Great video. Really interesting products

An interesting product that I am sure will be popular. Not much use to me currently as I'm modelling in p4 currently, but the 009 might be of interest in the future.

Wish I had know about these 6 weeks ago lol. What a great product

Hi Gwion, they look great products, when I finish with my Kato n gauge and get back to my OO gauge I will keep them in mind, by-the-way, how about doing a 2ft long grabber (for when these bloody tiny screw drop on the floor...Good luck with your new venture Iddy (bridgend)

going to need HOn3, and Z scale, Z scale is the same as HOf. the other option is to create a multi gauge version in HO, for multi gauge track.

I hope these are good bruv, I've just bought some for my next layout :) Hornby magazine recommendation.

Will you create those rail-aligners for Z gauge too, that would be very awesome!

You are a few years behind the game, there is a company in North America that manufactures these joints already, out of fiberglass with silver traces on them for easy soldering for buss wires. They are available in O, S, HO, N, HOn3 scales

Fantastic Idea! keep it up!

My family is from Wales, our name was Davies but changed to Davis when they came to the U.S. about 1806

What a great idea! Exactly what I’d need for my new Layout. I was looking into your shop and it says they work for both code 100 and code 75. I‘m using Peco code 100 track with selfmade third rails with older Märklin AC rolling stock which has higher wheel flanks than the DC stuff, so it works with code 100 track but not with code 75. To figure out if these connectors work with my rolling stock, I’d need to know the height of the rails above the sleepers / the clearance for the wheel flanges, that would be very helpful.

Really impressive. What is the basboard you are using and can you buy that from anywhere so it's easy to move your layout around?

Why on this earth are people giving a thumbs down !!!!!!! Great Idea

Nice going Gwion. I'd wondered if you were going to be doing these again. I will be in touch! Small question... are you doing longer pieces to cope with curves running between two boards?

Do the ProTrack rail aligners transfer power across the join aswell or does this need to be achieved with separate droppers?

Looks like an awesome product! So if I'm not mistaken, the USA Code 83 (RAU16001) version really is what I should use for any and all US track modeling due to the sleeper (tie) spacing, right? Even code 100 US track? I ask because from what I can tell, Atlas for example, makes flex track in both code 100 and code 83 which both have the same tie spacing. The height of the rail is the only difference caused by the code, sleepers (ties) remain the same distance apart regardless of code, which seems to be closer together than all OO sleeper spacing... If this is the case, it might make sense to give the RAU16001 a slightly different name than "USA Code 83" just to prevent US code 100 from modelers from buying the "standard" RAS16001 by mistake, thinking the rail code is the driver, rather than the tie/sleeper spacing which is based mostly on each country's actual railway building standards

Just a note I use them on code 83 track and the new layout I am using on code 83 Walthers track