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Spent eight days in Wichita, one day more than planned due to UAL’s inability to get us out of Dodge even on standby. Now that I’m back, I did what I said in the last post and bought what I call a gundrill (that’s not precisely what it is, just an 1/8″ drill bit a foot long with about three inches of flutes). This allowed me to drill a bunch of holes, a half-inch apart, through the Homabed right at its interface with the plywood subroadbed. I was then able to gently raise the Homabed with a couple of chisels and a putty knife, shimming it at the center of the dip with some 1/8″ plywood and with some cardboard at each end. (Curvable Homabed comes with a cardboard backing under each piece which has the same slits as the roadbed does.)
So far, it has seemed to work. I’ve pried up a couple more inches of roadbed to get it level all the way through, and both the flextrack on one end and the spiked tie strip at the other have seemed to survive. Shot it full of glue and put some weights on it, so we’ll see tomorrow how level it is.
My time in Wichita actually was somewhat productive, since I have a few resin kits up there that I’m gradually adding grabirons to.
Ron Merrick
