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<P mce_keep="true">In a month or so, I will be partly dismantling my layout to move to a new house. The present layout is a system of 6 sheets of various sizes (a system put together as an original under-the-bed layout was expanded over time) so I have many margins from which track must be removed, and is some cases a switch over a margin.</P> <P mce_keep="true">I plan to take up whole sections of the flex track over these and just lay down new pieces using the present joints. This will mean discarding a fair bit of track as it is held down with caulk and nails, and in my experience, once I get at the nails to pull them out, I have broken up a bit of the ties anyway. And I think that any switch over a margin is toast once I pull it up,</P> <P mce_keep="true">I have not ballasted any of this, as I knew the move was coming. And I have held off on scenery and structure installation 'til now for the same reason. However, I have a rise and descent over two margins built on foam risers that will just have to be cut with a knife.</P> <P mce_keep="true"><FONT color=#0000ff>I suppose my real question is whether or not to try some rail nippers/cutters instead of pulling up long sections of flex track back to their joiners. How good do these nippers work? Don't they mash up the rail a bit? Having to work with a file on 3 or 4 dozen badly cut sections would be more trouble that laying in a new lot of flex track.</FONT></P> <P mce_keep="true">I have used a dremel with cutting wheel in the past, but you know that the wheel can't be held at a properl 90 degree cut when the track is down on the railbed.</P> <P mce_keep="true">The good news is that the new place has much more space and the layout is going to be at a proper height on framework and wit new sections on some good foam board on wood frames etc., with at least double the size coming off a yard on that 6th board with is out of sight. </P> <P mce_keep="true">Whooopie! [:D]</P> <P mce_keep="true">Here is the layout in earlier days showing the 6 boards. Don't ask why so many.....a combination of what was needed to get them to fit in the only little room I had available, and what I had started with under the bed layout.</P> <P mce_keep="true">The trackwork actually runs very well now and I would hate to trash it all and start over.</P> <P mce_keep="true"><IMG src="http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/copyshowingboards.jpg" mce_src="http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/copyshowingboards.jpg"></P> <P mce_keep="true"> </P>
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