12-30-2010, 07:18 PM
Thanks for the comments all...
Russ: wow, you have a good eye! Some of what you pointed out was "camera trick", but after reading your response I had to take a quick walk down to the basement and look at those joints in question and yes, they could use a little clean up! I actually found about 3 on that upper section that weren't quite level with each other, and yeah, I am betting that could cause some problems later on! I have the roadbed and track down on the first level and it runs really smooth (and there are a couple of small gaps on a couple butt joints, but the pieces are level with each other, so I assume that is why I don't see any problem there), and I have the roadbed down and half the track laid on the second level, but looking things over after reading your response it looks like all my "problem children" are on that upper level, something tells me I was getting sick of laying sub roadbed and started to get a little sloppy compared to the other two levels!
The plan right now is to tweak the sub roadbed issues I made note of thanks to Russ' eye and insight and finish laying the roadbed and track and then depending on time get some more feeder wires run (right now I only have 1 run just so I could do my first test) but I am planning on dropping feeder wires every 3 feet or so to the main bus wires... actually I need to do some soldering practice first, my test feeder wires are not a work of soldering art, although they do work, but I want them to be a little cleaner than my first ones for sure!
--Rob.
Russ: wow, you have a good eye! Some of what you pointed out was "camera trick", but after reading your response I had to take a quick walk down to the basement and look at those joints in question and yes, they could use a little clean up! I actually found about 3 on that upper section that weren't quite level with each other, and yeah, I am betting that could cause some problems later on! I have the roadbed and track down on the first level and it runs really smooth (and there are a couple of small gaps on a couple butt joints, but the pieces are level with each other, so I assume that is why I don't see any problem there), and I have the roadbed down and half the track laid on the second level, but looking things over after reading your response it looks like all my "problem children" are on that upper level, something tells me I was getting sick of laying sub roadbed and started to get a little sloppy compared to the other two levels!
The plan right now is to tweak the sub roadbed issues I made note of thanks to Russ' eye and insight and finish laying the roadbed and track and then depending on time get some more feeder wires run (right now I only have 1 run just so I could do my first test) but I am planning on dropping feeder wires every 3 feet or so to the main bus wires... actually I need to do some soldering practice first, my test feeder wires are not a work of soldering art, although they do work, but I want them to be a little cleaner than my first ones for sure!
--Rob.