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Re: First Meeting of NOVALTC!
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Sun, 22 Aug 1999 13:36:11 GMT
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"SEBarile" <steve.e.barile@intel.com> wrote:
> 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
...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 a hard time trying to lay two circuits down.
...How is this solved elsewhere? Does anyone have some track designer layouts to
show how they lay out their tracks?
...I was thinking of making the modules a bit wider by about 16 studs (maybe 32
= one baseplate), just enuf to accommodate a second loop inside the outer one.
So am I over thinking this problem?
--
just a thought
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| The 6-tracklength width of the tables is indeed a fundamental issue as it essentially determines the number of parallel lines without adding extra tables. Member Will Chapman used gargantuan 40x90inch tables for a few years before PNLTC formed. At (...) (25 years ago, 31-Aug-99, to lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: First Meeting of NOVALTC!
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.trains.org)
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