Around the Room ceiling layout, Help with hanging track

peter allen 072518OGR Forum Member DIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

I am working on an around the room ceiling height lay out.

This is in my workplace and I have a shelf that is 6 inches deep that goes around 5 of the 6 walls of my office. (Shelf in Green on diagram below.)

Shelf is 7 feet off the ground with 1 foot for clearance to the ceiling.

I will be using Fastrack with a single turn out and 0-60 and O-72 curves.

Part of my plan was to have the track go accross the room, (Bridge part in RED on my diagram below.)

The room has a drop celling. with concrete above.

What is the best method/ tools / hardware I need to hang the board to bridge the gap? About 10 ft, show in red on diagram.

I have an scrm but not on this computer.

FYI diagram is not to scale but best I can do in paint.

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jini5OGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBER

3/8 all thread secured to the concrete above the drop ceiling. 3/8 nuts to sandwich the wood bridge. Use a laser plumb bob for laying out where to drill the holes through the drop ceiling and for drilling the concrete for the anchors.......or......use aircraft cables tied to the drop ceiling but it wont be as rigid as the first method using 3/8 all thread.

2/23/235:40 PM

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IRON HORSEOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

@jini5 posted:
3/8 all thread secured to the concrete above the drop ceiling. 3/8 nuts to sandwich the wood bridge. Use a laser plumb bob for laying out where to drill the holes through the drop ceiling and for drilling the concrete for the anchors.......or......use aircraft cables tied to the drop ceiling but it wont be as rigid as the first method using 3/8 all thread.

That thread method sounds like the best way but might require more work. Here's the way I did it:

My first layout was a ceiling layout, too. I cut the shelving and hung it by wire from the drop ceiling. It was fairly easy to do. You can hang a chunk of shelving with the wire on one side and then connect it with the wire on the other side to level it. I drilled small holes in the shelves and small holes in the ceiling grids and fed the wire through. I ran mostly Railking but I also had some buildings and switches. The weight was never an issue because I had plenty of drops of wire from the ceiling grids to the shelves. The shelves were never mounted to any walls, either. They just floated down from the ceiling. I ran all the electrical wiring above the ceiling tiled and then had one main drop of all the wires down to a control board. This was all an effort to keep my 9 foot tournament pool table intact. Eventually I sold the table and built a regular layout at table level.

Mike

2/23/236:14 PM

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