Hi Roger. Roger that on humidity. It's much more damaging than temperature shifts in our more humid climes.
I now run a dehumidifier next to the layout during the summer months, even though it's an electricity hog. I've been doing so ever since I took a plastic freight car out of its box after one particularly humid summer, and found the axles rusty and algae blooms on the boxcar sides. I do not recommend algae as a weathering medium. BTW, was Frasier Crane correct? Is mildew Washington's state flower? Cheers Jim Martin ________________________________ From: Roger Nulton <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 3:08:09 PM Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Re: growing pains In my finished basement here in the Northwest, the problem of benchwork movement is not from temperature change: that only fluctuates a few degrees. But the relative humidity moves from the 30’s in the Winter, when the furnace is heating the basement, to the 70’s – 90’s when the furnace is run infrequently in the warmer months.
