Water Level Route Glad to hear you are back home.
Glad to hear you are back home.
Likewise. Always good to have the crew back on board.
Just need two or three back.
David
To the world you are someone. To someone you are the world
I cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought
That's good news, Dave. Hope you can keep us all informed on the garage progress.
What did you finally decide on the floor?
York1 John
Hi John,
I'm going to have the floor refinished with one of the modern epoxy replacements. Traditional epoxy tends to turn yellow over time. The newer stuff does not. I just have to choose a supplier and a colour.
I want to have everything else in the garage done before we tackle the floor. It will not be cheap. The closer I look at the floor, the worse I realize the condition is. It's going to require a fair bit of grinding to get down to a solid surface.
The steel plate that will be used to cover the extension cord that runs to the layout has arrived. It is much more substantial than I thought it would be so no worries about the cord getting damaged.
Cheers!!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
In the process of cleaning out the garage we had to move the layout around a bit. It was more difficult than I had hoped it would be. The 4" casters aren't quite up to the task. I figure that even with the floor refinished it will still be reasonably hard to move. I looked at installing larger casters but they are really expensive.
I came up with a solution which will be economical and easy to install, and which should improve the rolling charactaristics considerably. I decided to simply add a second set of 4" casters to the base frames. That will double the contact surface, or, to put it a different way, it will cut the weight on each caster by half therein reducing the rolling resistance of each caster. Whether it will make a change overall has yet to be determined.
I'll have to wait a bit to see if my theory works. My nephew, who will be helping me build the yard benchwork, has just been exposed to Covid so if he gets sick it will be the better part of a month before he can do the work.