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Day 52: bendy board

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Slight flaw in the baseboard I've made - the front centre is warped upwards by about 5mm relative to the ends. While not a massive issue, this is supposed to be a shunting layout, so any wagons running away of their own accord will not be a good thing. I think this has happened from being stored poorly, as well as being lightly built to facilitate house moves and so on. If I'd built the front a bit deeper, I'd have got away with it.

 

To try and counteract this, I bought some aluminium angle, which as it turns out, is not stiff enough to bring the wood back into line. I might be able to fashion the spare angle into legs for the layout, but clearly I need another solution to straighten the board out.

 

Any ideas?

 

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Are you able to store it flat with weights on to bring it back into line?

 

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20 hours ago, Corbs said:

Are you able to store it flat with weights on to bring it back into line?

 

 

It's now sat with a couple of books under the ends and some Heavy Things in the middle to weigh it down. I'm not hopeful, but it's worth a shot

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