> Posted by: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wjjim2001
> Date: Sun Oct 22, 2006 4:01 pm (PDT)
>
> In a message dated 10/16/2006 3:37:39 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>>I wonder if anyone can report on doing a module using plywood (maybe 1/2 or
>>3/8 inch) for the area of the layout that supports track and roadbed and
>>accessories, but uses something lighter (like foam) for the remainder of the
>>top ?
>
>Our 4 X 7 travelling SHS layout has a 3/8 plywood top, covered with 1/2"
>Homosote. <cut>
For yet another approach see Mike Tylick's Pioneer Valley O scale
layout article in the September 1994 Model Railroader magazine. A
unique feature of his lightweight design is the combination of 1-inch
Styrofoam and door skin plywood (3.0 mm, about 3/16-inch) to provide
a base. Edges and supports were made from the same door skin plywood.
In 1995 Graham Henry and I built two, 2 x 4 S-MOD modules in his
Berkeley garage with Mike Tylick's method, except that we used 1 x 3
around the edges. For legs we used a fold-up design from, as I
recall, a Ted Larson article in the NASG Dispatch magazine. The
result was two, sturdy, lightweight tables that have held up well
over the past ten years.
--
Bill Roberts
San Francisco, California
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