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Ha oc, Speaking as a carpenter and builder, 1/4 plywood of any type won't hold a fastener in the end grain and is way to flexable for the frame of such a layout. might be ok for subroadbed but I'd use 1/2 min. As for your frame, 3/4" plywood ripped to 3 1/2" would be my first choise or 1x4...

Matt, I think the pics. that you are talking about are ones that are stored on the web somewhere and linked to with the "insert image" botton above the text field when posting. Image and file size limits don't apply to images posted this way since they aren't on The Gauges server. hth

Ops, screwed that up. Moderator please delete?

Ha Mike, You say 14 years in the making as though you think people actually finish a layout! :D

Herc, The rails that move are the points

Ha Mohamed, A search for "plastic injection molding" turned up a huge amount of sites dealing with the subject. HTH

Ha Chris, A circular saw would cause less vibration, mabye a 5 or 6 on the Richter scale.

I see Ed has hit 1000 posts :cool:

Ha emt, I like the caulk MJ said. Use some tacks to hold the track until it dries. As for your yard, you can lay the track directly on the foam and save some cash. Use some shims to go from roadbed to no roadbed. That little uphill to the mainline is something real yards and sidings have to...

More good stuff Harold.

JD, The "lean" is to keep the load even on both rails in a high speed turn. Like a banked turn on a race track. On a flat curve the weight would shift to the outside rail, and a passenger would be pulled that way also.

Ha CAS, try leaving the shell in the alcohol over night. I just stripped two heavily painted shells that way.

Great pix PB

Nice trestle Bob

"The only ho I'm pimpin' is sweet lady propane" :D

Sounds like fun Chris, but I'm afraid Ont. is a little out of my range.

So Identitty, Let me see if I got this straight. You find a two year old thread about grafitti and deside you need to join the gauge so you can tell the people that were talking about grafitti in 2003 that they need to relaxe and start thinking. and to defend a bunch of vandals that you call...

Ha Mike, There was a thread about this a while back but I can't remember which forum. Mabye you could find it with the search function. LED's seem to be the bulb of choise these days.

Good motivation to clean up the basement, looks good Harold