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To All, (Larry P suggested I post this here, originally in MLTC Yahoo Group) Like the title? : ) Anyway, I went to Lowe's last night, to get some ideas about the gutter's for the kids table, and I think I found a good solution. They had 10 foot (...) (23 years ago, 1-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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"Scott E. Sanburn" <ssanburn@indalex.com> wrote in message news:GM4MvJ.CDJ@lugnet.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) Here is a picture of our (NCLTC) gutters: (URL) are mounted with bolts that go through the gutter and then through the table (...) (23 years ago, 1-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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Thanks Mike!! (...) play area but not exactly the kind of detail on mounting we need. (...) Do you have a pic handy that shows underside or some mounting detail? (...) A wrinkle for us is that we are attaching to banquet tables supplied by GATS... (...) (23 years ago, 1-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) What NALUG did, and has worked fairly well for us, is we just hardmounted an oval of track to a 4x8 sheet of (pressboard? some varient of wood-but-not-wood). We tell show organizers that they'll need to provide a 4x8 table per oval they want. (...) (23 years ago, 1-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) Now not having done this myself I thing there are a few things to remember. 1. The Gutters don't need to remain water tight. 2. The Gutters need to have some ridgidity to support a limited amount of leaning/abuse by spectators. Now if you had (...) (23 years ago, 1-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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Ben Fleskes designed this system for PNLTC and it works well with our tables as Mike mentioned earlier. We don't use corners. I think they will be a hassle making it necessary to have perfect dimensions... we use just the gutter ends. And BTW it (...) (23 years ago, 1-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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