Oxfordshire Narrow Gauge railway Modellers - Grainge and Hodder baseboard supports

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The Oxfordshire Narrow Gauge Model Railway group use Grainge and Hodder modular baseboards, and these are great but it is difficult for connected rows of them to sit flat on a row of GoPak metal edged folding tables, which are the type that we are given at most exhibitions. To fix this we printed U shaped supports that go under the edges of the board, raising them up 1cm, above the metal lip on the table. There are two types included here: "Ply Sides": These "U" shaped supports fit under the edge of the normal plywood G&H boards, and have holes both sides so that fixing screws can pass straight through, or you can use 3mm bolts. "Solid base": Some boards are custom built so needed a L shaped support that gave the same height lift. We decided to fit 4 supports per module, each spaced 10cm from the end, bit they can go anywhere. NOTE: Our original batch was printed in PLA and worked well, but one member left his modules in the conservatory for a few weeks during the summer and and the supports warped, so in future we will only be using PET-G.