Who uses hollow doors for their layout? Could you provide information, track plans, and pictures if possible. How about the noise? Do you use tables or saw horses as support?
You will find LOTS of doorway layouts at Thor’s site:
http://www.thortrains.net/marx/drlaydex.html
Daniel Lang
I just finished a hollow door layout. It was noisy with 0-27 track even on top of cork roadbed. I had a bunch of styrofoam sheat so used that as a base. Covered it with paper bags and tape.
If I had it to do over I would …
- Glue foam to door.
- Glue paper bags to foam, cover joints and sides with masking tape…
- Glue cork bed to paper
- Screw track to paper to foam. Sometimes I I use a dab of glue on the ties also. A dap of glue will come off easy enough.
Using blue foam from a builder supply store would not require a paper cover (but the price was right on my styrofoam).
For my layout support I have it sitting on top of a foos ball table. I can also let is straddle the end of two tables (it is plenty firm).
I used a 36" door and added alot of switches. I had to cut several pieces of track to get everything to align. Being willing to cut track actually liberates you to do many more variations.
A picture follows
Jim,
Could we see a closeup of your layout?
Let’s see if this works better.
http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b5df34b3127cce9e232488cc4300000016108AaNmbFy5Zta
Buy the way, it is k-line 027 inside and K-line shadow track outside.
Let’s try this picture thing one last time!
Jim H
I have a portable hollow door 027 layout I haul to shows. It has folding legs and is easy to haul and set up. 15 minutes flat. To deaden sound, I attached pieces of 1/8" thick x 1/4" wide x 2 1/8" long adhesive weather strip under the ties. A cheap, simple, effective solution. They work very well. It’s an old trick by a standard gauge operator, Chuck Brasher. Do not tighten the track screws. The heads should be a hair above the ties or they will transmit sound through the door.