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I ordered some track from Atlas,  a complete 36" circle and some straight trax.  my logic is to lay the assembled circles with some straight to make it elongated an lay on floor,  make some paper/tape cut outs and lay the thing as i picture it on the tile floor??  good/bad/stupid/brilliant??  anyway that is the plan BUUUUUUUUTTTTTTTTTTTT  thinking advance on one subj

DUST CONTROL!!

On my small layout i cover the whole thing with a tarp that is about the consistency of a parachute, very very light and sort of floats down on the layout.  i roll it up in a broom handle and store it same way.  nothing worse that doing a lot of work and seeing it disappear under dust bunnies or in some cases dust rhinos, some of the projects are rather intricate and dust would kill them

 

so here is question

what do you all do, for dust control that is

i just watched a video of the NJ High railers and their 7400 sq foot layout,  **** 7400 sq foot myhouse is only 1800 add garage and it is 2300 sq foot,,,   7400 freakin sq foot "O" guage  wow just plain wow

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this tarp that i have is extremely light,  15X20 and it might weigh a pound, the material for a dust cover is really not the issue, probably many different things that would work

the real problem is for the sake of a better word is a delivery system, a way to put it to work, a way to deploy it quickly and effectively but not damage any of the  delicate work that has been created,  all of my buildings have antenna, water towers, some have miller engineering bill boards (they are way cool) I now have three of them including the barber pole  so the object of this discussion is how to actually use the dust cover...  i know some places where one can get old parachutes, but the cheap plastic tarps that are probably something like nylon or even spinnaker material from the sailing world, it is light  not cheap but light

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