Just make sure your layout will be a good working height for you. Bending over a layout that is to low will take a toll on your back.
Welcome to Trainboard. You used the same brand of folding table legs as I did. I got mine at Lowe's for $20.
The hollow core door on folding table legs as illustrated in post #158 is exactly what I am planning on doing. Do you have any recommendations about how to raise the layout using that method?
I learned a long time ago that no question is stupid .... and you usually answer your own. Just started a new hollow core door layout myself today. Got the materials this week and put up four tables in about 4 hours (with lots of breaks). Thanks to WPZepherfan for posting the photos of the underside of his table. Saved me a lot of time.
Nice! Two items: Welcome to Trainboard! Nicely-done layout. That trackplan looks like a direct adaptation of the Carolina Central layout, and a noce one at that. I like that grain elevator at the left- what is that industry to the right?
Yes, it's based on the Carolina Central, but I made a few changes to it. It's been a fun small layout.
Please Continue on Hollow Core Door Layouts No worries ratonman. The comment is being sorted. Thanks. I deleted all of them as not being train related. Let's please continue on the hollow core door layouts.
Katy: That's a nice-looking grain elevator complex. Can you share some of the stats on your layout with us (size, track used, DC or DCC, etc.)?
Not at all. I seem to recall an article about this, years ago. Someone had fabricated leg extensions, using aluminum pipe they got from a hardware store. These pieces slipped over the existing legs. Sorry, I don't recall more at this time. Boxcab E50
Bed Risers I have seen small bucket shaped "stools" which are intended to raise the height of a bed. They are referred to as bed risers or bed elevators. I am sure you could use these to raise the height. I would think they would be very sturdy. Perhaps you can see this example:
There are a couple issues of MR with methods similar to this. My favorite used wing-headed bolts and holes drilled every one inch through the pipe and then two in the table leg. The holes were then tapped to accept the bolts, no nuts required.
Here's a layout I designed a few years back. It's for z-scale. It was designed for a little competition, that newer really got to be. The design fits a hollow core door, and have reamined a design, never got to be a real layout.