by Czar » Sat Oct 08, 2016 6:33 am
Ken, I appreciate your suggestions and experience but this piece is dead flat, on a straight away, it happened when cars were going at speed (though it is only one piece removed from a corner exit, or when they were going slow. We ran across the track at very slow speeds trying to see if we could observe any variation in the performance of the track piece. And, it is a completely random event. At one time we raced about 15 minutes without incident. During that segment, cars would stay in their lane when passing over the track section. Cars would change lanes when the button was pushed and then the flipper would return to its normal position. Then, inexplicably, cars would be shunted into the other lane and the flipper would stick in the lane change position. I even put a small dab of Inox on the moving part of the track to be sure it wasn't sticking. I am suggesting Tim return the track piece to Carrera and let them figure it out. I know they will only replace the track and we will never hear another word about it, but at least he can regain the integrity of his track.