Vedauwoo Posted December 10, 2015 Posted December 10, 2015 (edited) Back in August 2015, I had decided to build an "elevated" train platform for a City display our LUG was presenting at BrickFest Live.... Needless to say, elevating a 1 plate height rail line to 32 plates high and going through a double curve introduced myriad "micro-stud offset" issues.... So, I realized that gravity was going to keep it in position for the most part, all I needed to do was hold the track in place laterally... Thus the FTMB - Floating Track Mount Bracket (please feel free to come up with a better term on par with "snot" and "poop" lol) In use: Floating bridge strut in situ by Christopher Briggs, on Flickr Side view of assembly: Floating bridge strut - Side view by Christopher Briggs, on Flickr Exploded view: Floating bridge strut - Exploded View by Christopher Briggs, on Flickr Worked great and kept the city's trains running for the entire show! Elevated train station at BrickFest Live! 2015 by Christopher Briggs, on Flickr Downtown view by Christopher Briggs, on Flickr Hopefully someone else can find some use from it as well! ======================================================= Thanks for visiting! Edited December 10, 2015 by Vedauwoo Quote
Murdoch17 Posted December 10, 2015 Posted December 10, 2015 What a wonderfully clever idea! Great job, and keep up the good work! Quote
v6TransAM Posted December 10, 2015 Posted December 10, 2015 Interesting. I was goofing with something similar when I built the bridge and incline with my boy. Was using a couple of the tilt pieces and goofing with them a bit to see what would work. The sliding piece is what was missing, so that's some nice engineering there. Quote
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