Maybe a bit of history on this track?
I purchased the whole track, Trackmate timing system, power supply, controllers, etc. from a friend of a friend in Terre Haute, IN. The friend-of-a-friend was getting out of slot cars, and this guy knew I wanted a track. At the time, I was still building my garage, and had nowhere to put it. That didn't stop me, I went down and picked it up.
We brought it back to my place, and it sat neglected in the corner of the garage, covered in sawdust and other construction debris.
I had planned to scrap the surface, saving the electronics, and build a new track. Enter another friend that we race with regularly. He already has a 4-lane oval, approximately 8' x 24' when assembled. It's "portable" in a sense. He wanted a track to run on at home, and this would fit on his pool table. So, over the last few nights, he and I dug it out. We took it apart, removed the surface from the 1x4 framework, and built a new 2x4 frame that will rest on top of the pool table.
Last night, we decided to pull the trigger and rout it for braid. Having been equipped with copper tape before, it would require re-doing the entire track as it had been cut up to move.
Well, after a couple hours of work...
We had to re-rout the slot, then the gains for the braid. It's not assembled, we'll do that once we move it to his basement. With luck, we'll be racing in a month or so, depending on his schedule and mine.
-Jim