I finished my new track today and ran some laps on each lane. All is fine, it works as planned (big surprise!). I spent about 2 months on this working 25 hours a week or so. I got tremendous advice from Steve Ogilvie and followed his guidelines for track building mostly. I changed some stuff due to my limited skills. I found that screws thru the track surface were necessary in some places. I started out doing everything from the bottom side, but that was not strong enough in places.
I routed it in separate pieces and then assembled it. I would build the road surface completely and then rout next time. That would eliminate fine tuning joints. I tried the triangular commercial slot track legs, but that wasn't solid enough to suit me, so I used 2 X 6's.
Router bit came from Slot Car Corner as did the pre-taped braid. That made it really easy.
I got advice from Harry and followed his tutorial on track building which helped a lot. It would be much easier to build a table top track and if I ever go to 1/32 cars, that is what I will do with some landscaping and scale realism. All previous tracks I've built, 4 of them, used tape. Tape works great, as most everybody knows, but the braid was so easy that I would not go back to tape unless it was money issue or the track was not made to last a long time.
I took pix all the way thru and made notes on what I did or had to re-do. I may put that all together somewhere if anyone is interested.
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