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Re: First Meeting of NOVALTC!
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Fri, 20 Aug 1999 20:44:29 GMT
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PNLTC Tables -  if you guys want to chat send us some mail.
Ben Fleskes designed the tables and there has been several revisions. The size
of the tables and the hole patterns on the side to bolt them together has
remained the same as original plan and work very well. There has been (I
believe) 3 systems for legs. The original corner leg built from the salvage of
4'x8' sheet of ply wood, then to speed up setup time Ben redesigned a folding
leg set that fit (when folded) within the bottom interior of the table so they
would stack nicely for storage and transport. Unfortunately they are a bit
harder to build because they must fit together like a puzzle under the table
and tolerances are close. Then we tried regular foldout metal table legs using
short pipes to extend the legs. Dan would be a good resource about that.
SteveB


In lugnet.trains.org, Christopher Tracey writes:
Sorry- I meant to send an update.
We had our meeting as planned at the historic Union Station in Washington,
DC last Sunday.  Jeff Stembel brought along his steam engine.  Nice Work!
Being our first meeting, most of out time was spent discussing Lego in
general.  After figuring out how much Lego we had, we decided that we would
be unable to use the GMLTC style modules so we decided on the PNLTC Tables.
Stephen Roberts is going to be building three of them in the near future.
We planned out our first layout consisting of a small city, a yard/harbor,
and a rural area.

Things are moving along quickly for our club.  We would like to invite new
members, even if they are not involved in trains- we need more scenery.  As
always, you can join our mailing list at www.onelist.com by searching for
'novaltc'.

-Chris

---
Christopher Tracey
US Geological Survey
Earth Surface Processes Team
Reston, VA
ctracey@usgs.gov



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(...) ...Hmmmm... The folding legs would be nice, may have to investigate once I get the initial tables built. My observation at the moment is how to make track loops on it. The width of the table is just at the curvature of the track, so I'm having (...) (25 years ago, 22-Aug-99, to lugnet.trains.org)

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Sorry- I meant to send an update. We had our meeting as planned at the historic Union Station in Washington, DC last Sunday. Jeff Stembel brought along his steam engine. Nice Work! Being our first meeting, most of out time was spent discussing Lego (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.trains.org)

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