Bill, You can get high-quality five-ply half-inch fir plywood, but not at the big box stores. It is produced by several Canadian mills and generally available at some of the better lumber yards. I use it for molds building my kayaks. For those who want a superb combination of light weight, strength and stiffness, take out a second mortgage and buy some okuome marine plywood. I use three-ply okuome that's only 3mm thick on my kayak hulls. -Wes Ewell
--- On Thu, 1/13/11, Bill Lane <[email protected]> wrote: From: Bill Lane <[email protected]> Subject: {S-Scale List} More on switch machines and plywood To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, January 13, 2011, 8:13 AM Dick & All, Thanks much for your replies at length. Dick mentioned 1 thing I did not give much consideration. My current thoughts were to make the overall deck with ¾ plywood, and I am guessing ¾” homasote. The main lines will be on ¼” homasote roadbed above that. I guess this might be a lot to ask of any switch machine to work through that thickness. I just got a 2 HP plunge router. I can possibly use that to make the needed holes. The turnouts may remain as ground throws for a while but at least I will have made them switch machine ready. I wanted to use better quality ¾” plywood for the deck for stability. I am not overly concerned with weight here as these frames are not going to be to S-Mod. Is there a 5/8 plywood? Or I could use ½” but that is as thin as I am going to use. Thank You, Bill Lane Modeling the Mighty Pennsy & PRSL in 1957 in S Scale since 1988 See my finished models at: <http://www.lanestrains.com/> http://www.lanestrains.com Look at what has been made in PRR in S Scale! Custom Train Parts Design <http://www.lanestrains.com/SolidWorks_Modeling.htm> http://www.lanestrains.com/SolidWorks_Modeling.htm PRR Builders Photos Bought, Sold & Traded (Trading is MUCH preferred) <http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRphotos.xls> http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRphotos.xls ***Join the PRR T&HS*** The other members are not ALL like me! <http://www.prrths.com/> http://www.prrths.com <http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRTHS_Application.pdf> http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRTHS_Application.pdf Join the Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Lines Historical Society It's FREE to join! <http://www.prslhs.com/> http://www.prslhs.com Preserving The Memory Of The PRSL [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
