Modular Leg Brackets

Model Railroader Layouts and layout building
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I’m looking for a source for the leg bracket shown on this modular layout. Any ideas would help. I’ve tried Ntrak (where the picture came from), and I’ve not had any luck contacting them.

Tks, Bob O…

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i think i saw your post on the yahoo group for ntrak. I believe that article and pic were written by members of the Northern Virginia Ntrak group. Try emailing them to ask. They do look very handy. Good luck and let us know what you find out.

Northern Virginia Ntrak www.nvntrak.org/

Mike

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Have you tried Granger catalogue? Be surprised the stange stuff in it.
Bob K.

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I’ve tried emailing Ntrak, the article author, McMaster-Carr, MSC Industrial supply, Yahoo and Google searches, etc. I have not tried Granger. That’ll be next.

I was hoping a module railroader would see these know immediately where they can be found.

Thanks, Bob O.

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Author of the article finally got back to me. The brackets for the module railrod can be found here:

http://www.fifthdaycreations.com/details.asp?productid=bbtop

Leave it to Model Railroad ingenuity!

Bob O.

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Hey thats great. those look very convenient. Bob I appreciate you letting us know. I am part of an Ntrak club and currently i have wooden legs on my module secured with two bolts and wingnuts each. Many in our group have gone to using metal conduit legs inserted into a wood block underneith the module. These look a lot nice than the wood blocks. Thanks again.

Mike

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Im curious how did they mount adjusters to the other end???

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This is an exerpt from the newsletter I produce for our Ntrak club in Harrisburg, PA. many of our members are using electrical conduit for their legs of the modules now.

  • The legs are made from 3/4" conduit, cut to 36" lengths. (2 pieces of conduit will do 6 legs).
  • The floor end uses a 7/8 plastic caster socket pounded into the hole in one end. I then use a 3/8 x 5" eyebolt
    screwed into the caster socket. The sockets are available at Ace & True Value Hardware stores.

This assembly allows the needed adjustment per ntrack standards. If you want to read the full writeup about how we make our legs its included in the March/April newsletter on our site, www.pennscalers.org.

Hope this helps.

Mike