After a couple week hiatus (those darn holidays get in the way of progress), I'm finally back from another trip down to my Dad's house.
This trip I filled in all the riser that were missing. When we 1st cut and layed out the roadbed the riser were 4-5' apart, just to get it in place and make it easier to move a couple riser instead of a whole bunch, if need be. Well, needless to say it bounced like a trampoline.
Now that we are happy with where everything is, the permanent risers are in place now.
While I was gone my Dad set up a "cork road bed station" to cut the cork strips. I have a link to where I got this idea in the 16th reply of this post. It works great!
Here's a shot of the station.
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This next picture is of a jig my Dad made to ease laying out the spacing of the cork and track. The length of it is 4", It can handle a 3 track main with
2" spacings. And the width of it is cut to fit between the distance of the adjacent outside rails. click to enlarge any picture.
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We glued it down to the plywood with regular carpenters glue, because it was handy. We tacked it in place till it tried, and in large areas like switch pads I took long strips of wood and clamped it along the edge to hold it flat.
Here's a section tacked and waiting to dry.
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Here's a switch pad area now.
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Still more to come...