Re: Home made pine road bed takes first track.

In article <MlC1k.7192$0O1.3369@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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	"Pac Man" <cutler2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
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> "Paul Newhouse" <newhouse@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> 1/2" GOOD GRIEF what do you need a open pit hole that big for????
> 
>     'Cause I'm going through 3/4" spline subroadbed, 1/4" pine roadbed,
and 
> the 1/4" mounting pad our tortoise machines are screwed to with a 0.039"

> dia. piano wire.  The wire flexes and needs some room to do so.  It also

> cannot hang on the sides of any hole or you will get undesired operation

> (jerky movement, etc.).

We've installed the tubes through 1-1/4" laminated subroadbed sometimes
with
1/2" of Homasote.  The depth isn't really an issue.

Have fun cutting your 1/2" holes from the underside  *8^)

Paul
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