I would like to make some 'sectional type track' in larger lengths, and bigger curves' than what you can purchase. And I figure to make it out of flex track.
Unlike the situation where you are laying flex track out on a layout roadbed and attaching it to the roadbed, and nailing or glueing it in down in place, I'm looking to have some 'sectional tracks' that are a very consistent curves, and in larger lengths than we normally think of.
So how do I make up these larger sections from normal HO flex track code100??
One place I wish to employ these big curved pieces is in my double track helix,....probably 32" r and 29.5 r curves. And I would be laying the track down in big curved sections AFTER I had the helix and it roadbed constructed already. I could weave some of these big curved pieces in then glue them in place, and end up with a very consistant circular track helix.
I would also like to have a number of longer 24" curved pieces I could place in my staging track construction. All of these curves want to be nice consistent, minimum 24" ones,...
If I had a stack of 24" radius 90 degree turn 'sections of track' like these I could simply cut each one down for its respective length as opposed to laying out each individual flex track for each curve while trying to maintan a 24" curve.
Unlike the situation where you are laying flex track out on a layout roadbed and attaching it to the roadbed, and nailing or glueing it in down in place, I'm looking to have some 'sectional tracks' that are a very consistent curves, and in larger lengths than we normally think of.
So how do I make up these larger sections from normal HO flex track code100??
One place I wish to employ these big curved pieces is in my double track helix,....probably 32" r and 29.5 r curves. And I would be laying the track down in big curved sections AFTER I had the helix and it roadbed constructed already. I could weave some of these big curved pieces in then glue them in place, and end up with a very consistant circular track helix.
I would also like to have a number of longer 24" curved pieces I could place in my staging track construction. All of these curves want to be nice consistent, minimum 24" ones,...
If I had a stack of 24" radius 90 degree turn 'sections of track' like these I could simply cut each one down for its respective length as opposed to laying out each individual flex track for each curve while trying to maintan a 24" curve.