Adriatic posted:
Hi Adriatic,
I enjoyed and appreciate both of your posts, and now have some time to implement your suggestions. In this regard, your pen/Philips screwdriver suggestion made me smile! I used the red/burgundy colored Lionel solid wire for my Super "O" layout as a young boy, and frequently used a pencil to coil some wire to give me "wiggle room" if I later made a modest change to the location of an accessory. (I still have a few lengths of that 1960's era "coiled" wire in my miscellaneous wire box!)
I still use this method occasionally under the table if I envision possibly moving something a short distance in the future. That's a wonderful layout "Tip & Trick" that I should probably use occasionally on the 1"4" layout framing where I am now running most of my wiring, as you suggest.
Question: Should I just plan in the future to place the plastic "wire stays" slightly above each connection with the barrier strip where possible? I generally have room on the 1" x 4" layout framing for this.
Finally, those wire "looms" were installed when I first started the wiring and I can probably eliminate them and use the pencil/pen tip and trick to replace the larger coils with a short 1" coil of wire. In this regard, each of those white, red and green colored wires are for a mainline track connection, so I likely wanted some flexibility when I started my layout wiring back when I made the O.P.
Thanks again!