Burbs
Member
I’m in the planning stages for my benchwork for my HO layout and I’m leaning towards using 2” thick foam insulation board instead of plywood. The issue I’m seeing here locally that finding 2” foam board is hard but finding 1.5” seems a bit easier. My benchwork will have center supports so I’m not worried about the baseboard not being supported enough.
I do have two questions however:
I do have two questions however:
- If I can‘t find 2” XPS boards would it be ok to use 1.5” with .5” on top to equate 2”? (I realize I’ll have to glue the .5” on top but that’s not an issue)
- I did Google “installing a tortoise switch to foam board“ and it appears they recommend either glueing a 4” piece of 1/2” plywood to the bottom of the foam and then installing the switch to that. Or I saw someone installing it flush from the bottom on piece of perfboard. I didn’t see anything about blue point therefore that leads me to ask, what have some of you done to mount either Tortoise or Blue Point switches to foam?