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From: Bob Werre <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, February 9, 2012 10:34:33 AM
Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} eyes, legs, knees etc.
we're trying to find a way to fasten
our tripods to our motorised wheelchairs--you know the ones advertised
constantly on TV!
I recently had a conversation with Michigan HO scale modeller Doug Tagsold who
has designed his new, lower layout to be operated from wheeled office
chairs...an idea his operating group likes. If aging modellers adopt this
idea, there is no reason why mobility scooters could not be used as well,
providing the layout was at ground floor level. Ideal for California
basements. We joked with each other that as long as we were using scooters,
why not equip them with Tsunami decoders and travel along to the sound of our
favourite prime movers.
This all means we probably need to speed up our layout building or find
some young kids to help in stringing wires under the layout, replacing
switch machines and adjusting the track in the far corners of the layout.
Speed up or stop altogether, tear it down, and build something friendlier to
work on. A radical idea for some but a liberating one as well. Build your
new, around-the-walls layout on narrow, removable shelves and do your
trackwork, wiring and scenery at a more comfortable height and location. I
have chronic neck pain and my bifocals work the wrong way for looking up at
wiring. My layout is being built in 4 to 6 foot sections that I can slide off
the L-girders and set up on saw horses. It's been years since I had to crawl
under a layout to wire anything. Food for thought.
Cheers
Jim Martin
