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I have installed my Peco turnouts over 3/4" plywood overlaid with 1/2" Homasote. No problem cutting out the hole for the turnouts and installing them. However there is a noticeable gap underneath. What do I use to fill in this area under the turnout so I can ballast over it?
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Any ideas?
Thanks,
Tom
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Cardstock should be fine, maybe even a square of painter's tape or masking tape. I even use cotton batten and scrunched paper towel strips, sometimes forcing them into crevices with a small screwdriver.
If you are actually going to ballast in and around your points and throwbar, you should only set it with a light mixture of white or yellow glue and water, a drop or two of dish soap added. You will very likely want to take up that turnout eventually, and you will appreciate being able to break up the ballast with just a small screwdriver.
I'll try the cardboard/cardstock ideas. I'm pretty sure I can do it fairly easily.
one technique I saw in an ealier thread called for duct tape, sticky side up, with a slot for the switch machine drive. Ballast would stick to the tape - no water near the switch machine.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
tomikawaTT wrote:one technique I saw in an ealier thread called for duct tape, sticky side up, with a slot for the switch machine drive. Ballast would stick to the tape - no water near the switch machine.Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
That's what I do with painters masking tape. It works well even over a half inch diameter hole.
Karl
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