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Model Forum / General / Railroads / July 2005How to lay cork roadbed under turnout
Hi, can anyone give me suggestions for how to lay cork roadbed where turnouts will go? I seem to have a very hard time getting the two "inside pieces" to line up squarely. Is there any easy way to do this? p.s. I'm building a switching layout right now, and have a ton of switches in close proximity, aggrevating the problem. Thanks in advance! Scott The recommended practice is to lay the outside straight first. Then lay the outside curve second. Then cut one piece at an angle to complete the straight route. Then cut and fit the last piece on the curve. > Hi, can anyone give me suggestions for how to lay cork roadbed where > turnouts will go? I seem to have a very hard time getting the two [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Thanks in advance! > Scott  SignatureFrank Rosenbaum The Gratiot Valley Railroad Club bi-annual train show and sale November 6, 2005, at the Macomb Community College Sports and Expo Center. Macomb County Michigan. Please visit our Web Site Click here: http://www.gvrr.org/ Also see the club that I joined in Kalamazoo! Click here: http://www.kmrhs.org There is a cork roadbed product which is precut for turnouts. Whether they fit your particular geometry is unknown, but they seemed sized for #6. I used the Woodland Scenics roadbed and used 1/2 of a piece each for the straigt and curved sections, fit the double section as close to the divergent ends as possible (sloped shoulders just touching), then cut a flat piece of the material (it is sold in 4x24" pieces) to fill in the sort of triangle piece left. It worked fine. Ed > The recommended practice is to lay the outside straight first. Then lay the > outside curve second. Then cut one piece at an angle to complete the [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >> Thanks in advance! >> Scott SignatureEd Oates http://homepage.mac.com/edoates DCC wiring information is at http://www.wiringfordcc.com To help eliminate spam and scams, send it to FTC gov <uce@ftc.gov> (hee hee hee: Happy spam bot message) > Hi, can anyone give me suggestions for how to lay cork roadbed where > turnouts will go? I seem to have a very hard time getting the two [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Thanks in advance! > Scott Scott, if you're building a switching layout based on an industrial area, then you possibly don't need to worry about raising your track too much above the surrounding 'ground'. In industrial areas the rails often sit not much above the dirt. Rather than laying strips of cork in such locations, I simply lay a sheet of it. I've been buying sheets 900mm x 600mm x 3mm (that's about 3' x 2') for AU$5.00 each. Ron On our Club layout we are building, where we have yards or significant amounts of industrial track and turnouts, we use rolled cork sheet, 4' wide by 50' long rolls from Home Depot (we are half way through our second roll). They will also sell it by the running foot, so you don't need to buy the whole roll. It is used for flooring underlayment, so get it at the tile/rug dept. Uses a mastic type material as an adhesive. Contact cement instructions say it works for this stuff, but it doesn't. (ask me how I know this!) Good luck. >> Hi, can anyone give me suggestions for how to lay cork roadbed where >> turnouts will go? I seem to have a very hard time getting the two [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > Ron Okay. How do you know this? > On our Club layout we are building, where we have yards or significant > amounts of industrial track and turnouts, we use rolled cork sheet, 4' wide [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] >> >>Ron "RonMcF" <ron@ron.com> wrote in message SNIP Ron, where do you get the cork from in Oz? Cheers Alex... > I've been buying sheets 900mm x 600mm x 3mm > (that's about 3' x 2') for AU$5.00 each. > > Ron |
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