<HTML>List Thanks for the advice, as always.  I ended up using a clipper (more ab= out that below) to snip a bit of the width off and everything worked fine.&n= bsp; I found this great clipper through a fellow tech, Bruce Zale.  It's a = model railroad track clipper and is available at hobby shops.  It cuts= all types of felt so cleanly, easily and precisely; I get much better resul= ts with this than a razor knife.  It also cuts center pins better than= the center pin nipper I bought from Schaff.  So I can carry one less = tool in my kit.  In this case, I was able to snip off just a little slice from each side, jus= t enough for clearance from its neighbor.  Tom Sivak</HTML>