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| | | I have a small layout in my office at home set up on the floor. In our house we have hardwood floors with area rugs. My layout is right near the edge of an area rug and it keeps sliding towards the edge of the rug. I don't run the train that often (...) (25 years ago, 6-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: Does your train layout move? —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | (...) Yes. I assume you: have no cats that might be doing it, evilcreatures... and that you are running trains. If you're cat free and not running trains I dunno. But I can see layouts move even on top of carpet. When a train is running, it tends to (...) (25 years ago, 6-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | Re: Does your train layout move? —Tony Priestman
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| | | | | | | On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Larry Pieniazek (<389D0754.5C6ED094@...ager.net>) wrote at 05:32:04 (...) The weight of the train will deflect the carpet pile downwards, and the fibres will tend to move in a circular motion vertically, like reeds in the wind. (...) (25 years ago, 6-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Does your train layout move? —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | | Tony Priestman wrote: <direction of pile determines the direction of motion...> Makes a great deal of sense to me. How, how about Berber, which doesn't really have a defined direction.... here I think that it has to do with floor slope. (25 years ago, 6-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Does your train layout move? —Tony Priestman
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| | | | | | | | | | On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Larry Pieniazek (<389D99DF.DDE343DF@...ager.net>) wrote at 15:57:19 (...) Nah. It's far more complicated than that. It has to do with the longitudinal centre of gravity of the train, and the direction of travel, in relation to (...) (25 years ago, 6-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Does your train layout move? —Kevin Maynes
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) None of the above - yer all wrong. All o' ya. ;) It's the wind. K.M. (25 years ago, 6-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Does your train layout move? —Mike Walsh
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| | | | | | | | Tony Priestman wrote in message ... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) Sure does, in fact, the track is indeed sliding in the direction of least resistance of the rug which makes perfect sense from a physics perspective. I am surprised that the train (...) (25 years ago, 6-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | Re: Does your train layout move? —Mike Walsh
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| | | | | | Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <389D0754.5C6ED094@v...er.net>... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) We do have a cat but she is old and for the most part stays out of my office. For some reason she shows no interest in the train at all. The carpet (...) (25 years ago, 6-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: Does your train layout move? —John Neal
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| | | | (...) Not ever having been to your house, I'd say no...;-) -John (...) (25 years ago, 6-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Does your train layout move? —Mike Walsh
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| | | | John Neal wrote in message <389D2F54.20DCCF8E@u...st.net>... (...) the (...) be (...) Pretty funny! Feel free to stop by the next time you are in the neighborhood! Mike - mike_walsh@mindspring.com (URL) (25 years ago, 6-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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