[Totalwrecker]

gigawat,
my experience is with Aristo SS because I liked the color of the rail. My temperature extremes meet or exceede yours plus the rain and wind. Add 300 pound cloven hooved pecarraries to the mix I've got no complaints. No kinks either! Should last for ever.
Cleaning is simple, no oxidation.
Before I got sick I was hand shaping siding tracks for a funky look, rails in/on the dirt.

It's an empty question to me.

Happy Rails

John

 

[Totalwrecker]

Posted By lownote on 03 Jan 2008 07:14 AM


This is a dumb question, I know. Hard to believe it's not clear, I know, but bear with me please.


What is meant by flex track? I have a piece of software called "rail modeller" that lets me insert  sections of LBG flex trax and bend them, within lmits--does it come in sections like that?  I ask because  I bought a few 5 foot sections of Aristo 335 track, and noticed it was very flexible--it seemed like it would be quite easy to take four or five sections of that track and make a nice gentle curve. Does that count as flex track? If I got a rail bender, could I get a five foot section to make a sharper curve? I have a beginner's book which says "if you need a rail bender, it's tme to switch to sectional track."


Then I see brass rail sold in single 8 foot lengths, and ties sold seperately as well--is this what's meant as flex track? I'd buy a bunch of 8 foot sections and bend them either gently by hand or usng a ral bender, then slip them into the ties? That seems extremely hard to do--how do you ever get two seperate rails to the same curve. It seems dauntingly hard.


Is there a good primer anywhere on using flex track? My wife and I are planning to add on to our holiday layout and make it year round, and I want to do it right.


 


Thanks!

 

[Totalwrecker]

Dang a hours worth of answer stolen when I used the Quotation option.

Shad It's time to renew my 1st class member ship, be nice to have 1s class software too!

 

[Totalwrecker]

Steve, it used to work fine, I didn't know until it was lost that I needed to jump through hoops first!
As for protocols that's greek to me, I became pc literate durning the For Dummies era, heck I can't even get Save As back to jpegs from ping!

I still think there oughter be an easier way!
John