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Developing a clean, successful, method of installing spline trackbed. <br />It took three layouts to get it right. But very simple, very clean and not beyond the skills of those of without degrees in engineering. <br />Required tools: <br />GOOD table saw <br />A planer is helpful <br />A hand drill with 1/4" bits <br />Lots of 10x32 3" machine screws, with lots of washers and nuts. <br />4 ', 2' and bayonet levels <br />lots of c clamps <br />lots of finish nails <br />string <br />templates of various radii arcs (take a piece of 1" foam, draw your radii, but out, and mark, you should have two radii on each cut out piece. I did 24, 26 28 30 and 32. <br />That's for tools <br />1/4" tempered masonite sheets (4x8), or but precut 4x4. <br />13/16" plywood (or 3/4, but be sure to use all the same thickness stock!) <br />Cut stips of masonite the exact width of the thickness of the plywood. If your table saw is not that accurate, that's where the planer comes in. <br />Oh, some 1x6x8' yellow pine boards. They are generally an actual 3/4 ". Rip them to 1/4 ". <br />What you will end up with is a 9 ply piece of roadbed, the y.p. strip in the middle, with four strips of masonite on each side of it. If your strips of masonite are all the same length, then cut some of them to random lengths so that you have overlap in the spline......but <br />But I am getting carried away. If anyone wants to know how to finish, I would be glad to supply details...... <br />The question was, name a success in modelling. I call the advance from clunky cut outs of plywood to long, smooth beautiful curves a success. <br /> <br /> <br />
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