Monday, January 15, 2018

Track Update - Added Straight Away Support

I was rummaging through the stack of wood I have, as well as a few recently out-of-commission pieces of furniture, and found two perfectly good, very suitable strips of wood to use as an under support for my track.

That thin, brown slab of wood directly under the track is what I'm talking about. Adding it has allowed me to already go up another inch in height without problem.
It's pretty much the perfect thickness for what I'm looking for, but I'm not going to use this wood in my final track. I'll buy wood for that. I would hate to have to dismantle my track if it was decided we were going to use one of those cabinets again. But for the time being, this will be the perfect substitute until the real thing gets here.



I think I would like it to be the width of Carrera borders on most parts of the elevated track. That way if I run into a situation where nothing else works, I can use Carrera borders and not have any weirdness.

It flexes nicely, and tends to bring the track with it. The straight is much smoother now, except for one spot at the bottom of the hill where it's got a little bump.

This is going to make it a lot easier to raise and lower the track, as it's fully supported the whole way. And the nice thing is, the wood is thin enough that I can twist it a bit and the track will come right along with it. And that's without doing any attaching of the track to the wood. Just weight. This is going to go a long way towards giving me a smooth racetrack.


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