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Benchwork SNAP-CRACK: The sound you hate to hear-How do I repair this?
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A splice will do it; as I related in another post on a subject related to type of wood to use, about 27 years ago this happened to me only my L-girder gave way at a knot location at two o'clock in the morning - and my layout was complete - or almost complete anyway.<BR><BR>What I did was I pushed a table under the layout and, using it as a flat surface, I cranked the layout into a horizontal position using a couple of hydraulic jacks and a couple of 2 by pieces for bracing; I then cut out the knot because it was interfering with the splice's flushness against the broken piece; I clamped the splice to the errant piece and then drilled some 1/8 inch holes all the way through from front to back; this was so that my epoxy would ooze into these holes and grip very firmly; for good measure, I "overkilled" everything with about six screws. That was, incidently, my last HO layout and it got tore down two years later when I switched to N-Scale.<BR><BR>Keep us posted on how you come out.
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