9: Next I used a
Dremel motor tool
with a cutoff disk to
remove portions of
the rail on all of the
tracks. This allowed
me to cut straight
across with conven-
tional woodworking
saws.
10: After remov-
ing all of the struc-
tures, here is what
was left to be
removed.
11: Weapons Of Mass Destruction – If only I had all
of these available to me when I first started build-
ing the layout! Possibly the most useful tool is the
red vibrating saw, which allowed me to make cuts in
hard-to-reach areas and through scenery with a mini-
mum of dust. The lime-green lithium impact driver
was a champ at quickly removing old screws, and
effortlessly installing new ones.
12: It certainly came out faster than it went in! Some
of this benchwork goes back to my early teens, believe
it or not, and was moved from another home. Many of
the screws are regular-head, screwed in by hand with a
screwdriver until a patch of skin the size of a dollar coin
fell off my right hand.
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