A bit of update on the curved trestle: nothing’s been done! Mainly beacue I’m in Christchurch, NZ for a week.
I’m also happy to report that, after the airline lost my luggage, I’ve no longer been freezing, because my hotel let me borrow an old sweater from their lost and found. 
Hmmm. Looks like you made a wrong turn at Albuquerque!
Technically, it was Dallas - Ft Worth, but yeah I hear ya!
Glad they could help, and the luggage turns up before you leave Cliff.
I know your body clock is about 8 hrs ahead, but just saying that an early interview is not gonna happen! 
Cheers
N
….so all you really need is a bottle of Febreze until the luggage arrives?
It finally came today, woo hoo!
My colleagues can breathe easier.
I almost bought this beer last evening because it was so funny:
Back to the big trestle, here’s the current plan. I can’t do much while on travel, but it helps me to rehearse it mentally.
This starts with the as-is plywood on 4x4 posts which have been there maybe 10 years.
After removing some posts, and using a laminated cardstock template, the upper part of several hanger jigs will be screwed to the existing plywood. These jigs suspend an acrylic footer piece in space, up to which a few rocks are piled and mortar is formed for a pier.
The piers won’t look like this, but will follow the contour of the ground as needed. Once poured, the rest of the posts can be removed because the first jigs are holding up the plywood. (If not I’ll put in more temp posts). Then the rest of the hangers can be placed and their piers poured.
After that, the jigs and plywood can be removed. What should remain are the acrylic footers properly positioned in 3D space, with solid concrete supporting them.
After bents and the deck are made (with jigs & a big template), they’re to be assembled in the shop with stringers and braces on the existing foam assembly jig. The pedestal heights match the hanger jig lengths.
The three bent groups should install upon the footer pieces…
…and then the deck assembly will be set on those and screwed down.
Each bent has a 1" x 1/2" lower shim board which can be sanded (or re-made thicker) as needed to properly support the deck.
I’d rather not screw the bents down to the piers, but that’s an option. Another one is to make U-shaped acrylic pieces that glue to the footer pieces, and laterally lock each bent’s shim board in place.
At least, that’s the theory.
Cheers,
Cliff
As good as your design looks Cliff, I’m curious to know if you will be adding any eye candy to the sections that span the lower tracks?
I’ve always liked the spanning support areas as shown above. 
Cliff, I’m reading what you’re saying between the lines…
Cliff Jennings at 0300…. “Jet Lag… What Jet Lag?”
Thanks David, and I do really like that approach. Unfortunately the shallower span is at only 11.5" clearance, so I can’t do much there. I’ll look into using that for the taller span.
Yeah, I tried again, no joy Hollywood on making that approach work. It’s the two arcs of track blowing through that prevent any rational bent orientation. Over the years I’ve designed this again and again, and I’m stuck with what I’ve got.
Yep, here we go again …
Ok gang…Lets gather round the campfire, get out the weinies and marshmallows, Uncle Cliff is gonna tell us a story.
Reporting Rooster to the moderator for typing “weinies.”
Heading for cover, David Meashey
Reporting Rooster and Dave for gross mispelling of weenie.
Both weiner and weenie are acceptable spellings for the sausage derived from the German Wiener Wurst (Vienna sausage), but wiener is the more standard and etymologically correct form, while weenie is a common colloquial and colloquial-slang variation. You might see weiner as a common misspelling of the sausage, and wieners, weenie, weenies, or weiner are all used to refer to the sausage itself or a hot dog
Yes, I recall the opening scene from…
It was the Best of times. It was the Wurst of times…
So what is this
this being not only a delicious, but as well a delicate matter, i would like to precise further.
the correct name in german would be: Wiener Würstchen.
that’s one of those cases, where sizes matter.
a Wurst is in general a thing that has not one, but two ends. (and no beginning!)
most Würste (that’s the plural!) have a diameter of more than an inch up to four inches. (generally served as slices)
slim Würste are called Würstchen (little Wurst) being the same in singular and plural.
so, be it just one, or a bucket full, it is: Wiener Würstchen
since the typing of the umlauts is complicated on my brazilian keyboard, i leave the lesson about Bratwurst/Bratwürstchen (grilled Wursts/Würstchen for next semestre.
I think, Korm, if my grandmother heard me call a Bratwurst from her local Schlachterei a “Bratwuerstchen” she would have accused me of being Prussian, clocked me with a pan, and thrown me from her apartment! Of course, the same would have been true if it had been sold as a “Bratwuerstchen” and I called it a “Bratwurst.” Such is the fate of the children of the Ausgewaenderte that try to speak the mother tongue!
Eric
