by mattb » Fri Jun 29, 2018 3:30 pm
Here's what I have been working on. This is looking toward the bank at the end of the main straight. The bank is the same all the way around, it doesn't flatten out in the center like it looks in this picture. It is easiest to get the banking and elevation where I want it before I cut the last section of track. I am going to let it set for a couple days like this, then cut that section. After the bank, you have a front stretch which is where the controllers will be. Then the crossover to a nearly flat turn at the other end leading to the main straight. I figure that I can remove the missing piece in the future if I want to extend the track to an added "L" shape or to put an outside loop of some sort on it.
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Looking across the bank to the other end. It is 32 X 8.
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I routed this as the local cnc guy hasn't got back to me yet. It wasn't hard to do with the router guide I made and the bit from Slot Car Corner for the braids. The cnc guy is getting the programming to do 4 lane straights and 8 ft diameter curves. I think I will see if he can have his guy also program for 60 inch curves. For the price he gave me it would be wonderful to have it done on a cnc and be perfect.
I may decide to do a hill climb track eventually and with those sizes it would be easy to cut and paste it together.
Even easier would be to build the track and rout it when it is all together, then braid it in one long piece with no breaks. Of course, it would require major surgery or cutting and repairing to ever move it.
More later, I am not working fast!