Baby’s gotta move, one room to the next.
The intended location is holding two chairs (cake) and one curio stand (less cakelike, glass shelves, six feet tall, 1.5 by 1.5 feet square,about a billion treasured mementos resting on them) and that end is ready for insertion.
All the cars and structures, real and simulated, have to come off the layout and find temp space somewhere, every scrap of foam has to come off (and you know how many grommets will get loose and waft all over the house in the process, necessitating half a day of vacuuming to restore this beautifully (and rare) clean state by New Year’s Eve, and the power packs have to be hard mounted or unwired. I bought some black wire ties and plan to use them to tie down the transformers, but that involves drilling. Kind of surprising that MRC’s don’t have any provision for hard mounting, since they tend to skate around the control panel anyway.
The double doors are four feet wide, but the control panel makes coming out flat impossible, as does the entertainment center just outside them. I think everything will survive being flipped up edgeways, but survive or not, it’s going to happen. In a perfect world, someone else would grab the sawhorses and two bys currently supporting the layout, run them to the new location, and I could then set the layout where it’s going, but today I’m here by myself, so I need a place I can lean it, and, again in a perfect world, leave at least finger space between it and the floor for the final stage of the move.
If you all don’t hear from me by this evening, call 911. I can hold out without food for several weeks, but things will get pretty dicey trapped under the layout without water. I’m going to start hydrating now, just in case.
After the move, I’m going to add permanent legs with casters, a little shorter than the horses are now, and then ease the horses out from under the layout. They are needed elsewhere and my daughter currently has to stand o