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Re: Does your train layout move?
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lugnet.trains
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Sun, 6 Feb 2000 05:32:04 GMT
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LPIENIAZEK@NOVERAnomorespam.COM
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Mike Walsh wrote:
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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 or that fast that I would expect this to be
> an issue and I am surprised that the layout moves at all on the carpet.
> Every couple of weeks or so I have to scoot the layout back towards the
> center of the rug. Has anyone else observed this?
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 deform the track outwards when it goes around
curves. For whatever reason it seems not to be a completely return to
center motion. Depending on whim, or the shape of the layout, or slight
slopes in the floor (I don't know which) the layout walks in one
direction.
I am surprised that the layout moves on top of the rug instead of moving
the rug itself across the floor, though. Or does your rug have a
rubberized bottom?
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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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| 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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| 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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