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Indoor bench work

General Discussion
#1

I will be building an indoor G scale RR this winter when my house is built. I’ve built lots of HO scale “L girder” bench work and I’m wondering if the same system will work for G scale. Maybe the wood would need to be larger … any ideas ? thanks

#2

Norm since you can walk on the L-girder bench work it should be fine for what ever you put on it. I used it when I first went to G

#3

Hi Norm,
I guess it depends what size lumber you used for your bench work.
The last indoor bench work I built for HO years ago, I used 2x4’s.
Which I would think would be plenty for G.

Did you have any of the flooding your way?
Ralph

#4

I’d build it strong enough to hold yourself and then not worry about it.

#5

Ric Golding said:
I’d build it strong enough to hold yourself and then not worry about it.

What Ric said. “Yourself” is a relative term :smiley:

(http://lsc.cvsry.com/cvsr-327-3-640.jpg)

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#6

thanks… looks like some reasonable ideas… nice bench work Ric, my layout will be a walk around in the center of the room.

#7

I used 1x4s with a plywood deck and it was plenty strong enough for me to stand on and I’m nowhere near ‘petite’ size wize

#8

Here’s mine…

http://www.lscdata.com/users/slatecreek/Slate%20Creek%20Tour/
http://www.lscdata.com/users/slatecreek/Slate%20Creek%20Construction%20Photos/

Probably quite heavily overbuilt… but it’ll hold me up.

Matthew (OV)

#9
Victor Smith said:
I used 1x4s with a plywood deck and it was plenty strong enough for me to stand on and I'm nowhere near 'petite' size wize
1x4's are plenty strong....I actually built a roof overhang on my home with 1x4's and was laughed at until they held the blizzard of 96 snow load with no issues.
#10

Norm, Go for the L girder, like they say you can walk on it.