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 Posted - August 16 2014 : 12:41:40 PM
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Since my last posting of How Not to Build a Layout was so aggravating, I decided to
add onto my rant.
4. Some of you suggested access hatches. What a lovely idea. Here is the top to an
access hatch:
You can barely seen the chipped plaster edges.
5. This is how you access the access hatch. In fact, the designers should have
added an access hatch to get to the access hatch.
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Posted - August 16 2014 : 2:06:45 PM
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Chops, it sounds like the government must have been involved. Seems to follow all the government specs!
What's that white thing in the background?
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Posted - August 16 2014 : 2:11:00 PM
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#7, Make under layout storage stuff more consolidated and find a real young fella for crawling under there! Or get a creeper like ya work on a car! I've seen folks use those for under layout repairs and so on.
#8 Prevent duck unders and use lift gates and so on and a possible kill switch or something to let some one know you're coming through.
" Heck with counting 'em rivets, TRAINS ARE FOR FUN! Not called the Mad Scientist for nothing either!"
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Posted - May 03 2015 : 1:09:57 PM
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quote:Chops, it sounds like the government must have been involved. Seems to follow all the government specs!
What's that white thing in the background?
Originally posted by JNXT 7707Â -Â August 16 2014Â :Â 2:06:45 PM
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The white thing might be a cabinet where the DCC is stowed. It was purchased for
a whopping $1500 at the time, when DCC was still pretty new. Recently a DCC expert
(a Luftwaffe officer from East Germany, of all places) inspected it and strongly
suggested scrapping it- the throttles were unusually complex and one was
defunct; costing as much as a new DCC system, today.
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Posted - May 03 2015 : 1:22:28 PM
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quote:#7, Make under layout storage stuff more consolidated and find a real young fella for crawling under there!
Originally posted by Redneck Justin - August 16 2014 : 2:11:00 PM
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They kept me around for a couple years at the local club just for that - I was the only one small enough and non-arthritised enough to get under the benchwork to get to storage and re-rail accidents on hidden tracks! 
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Posted - May 03 2015 : 10:04:17 PM
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I like the shortened chair with wheels in front of the "white thing". SOmeone had a good idea for underside mobility.  Sometimes layouts evolve, rather than are planned. You deal with it. I was peering into that brown box in front, half expecting to see some vacuum tubes, but alas, just wiring and a big transformer. Oh well.
Jerry
" When life throws you bananas...it's easy to slip up"
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