 Joined: 05/11/2017(UTC) Posts: 27 Location: Chelmsford
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Hi,
I am building an M track layout on a wooden baseboard. I just had my first trial run and the trains make quite some noise. Would I be better off putting cork on the table?
Or do you guys use other material to lower the noise levels?
How easy would it be to paint, landscape, glue soil/grass/foam, etc... on cork instead of wood?
Thanks
Frederic
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Joined: 02/02/2017(UTC) Posts: 694 Location: England, South Coast
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I have used a layer of 3mm high density closed cell foam. Others use all sorts of different coverings. There is lots of info on this forum about baseboards, noise and M track, using the search function will help.
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 Joined: 27/06/2012(UTC) Posts: 3,478 Location: Holland
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Hello Frederic, Marklin made for her M track these rubber '7171' sound mufflers (Gummi-Schalldämpfer). These are pretty effective and reduce noise by 50%. I have used them on my 3600 track layouts, see pictures. Marco     |
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 Joined: 15/03/2003(UTC) Posts: 9,594 Location: Australia
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The noise is part of the character of m-track.. What also helps is a good quality (e.g. 18mm dressed pine) base for them to run on.. I used Marco's solution some years ago, but it made the layout too quiet. To each their own I suppose..  |
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Joined: 06/01/2010(UTC)
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Martin ( a forum user) did a nice video on this topic.
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Joined: 05/11/2017(UTC) Posts: 27 Location: Chelmsford
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Thank you all. The felt option as seen on Martin's forum sounds like a good option. Will look into it.
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 Joined: 22/09/2009(UTC) Posts: 2,073 Location: Edinburgh,
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Hi all I'm with Adrian on this and my exhibition layout is M track straight onto the wood. It makes lots of lovely M track noise.  However if I were to build/run something in the house I may have to consider some reduction. Using the proper M rubber strips does a good job, if you can find enough from ebay. Otherwise the felt is also a good option. Mike |
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 Joined: 28/07/2006(UTC) Posts: 880 Location: Augusta, GA USA
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I run C track now but in my M track days I used to buy foam track bed and cut it to fit. The fewer the screws you put through to the plywood the
better in reducing the sound. The screws transmitt a lot of the noise.
I even cut foam pieces to go into each section. I love M track and have kept all my old stuff. I plan to do another layer above my C track with it if
I live long enough. Got enough troubles with the CS3 and decoder addresses right now so expansion is not an option now.
Eric
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