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Subject: 
Re: Question about point/switch modifications.
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Wed, 7 Apr 2004 23:41:55 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Mark Bellis wrote:

> Track pieces with concave / convex ends, forming the sliding tracks for a
> turntable?  The turntable track would be 80L long and the table would be
> supported on a circle of inner radius blue or grey rails.  I suggest cutting a
> straight in half but with a curved cut of 40L radius, using 2 cut straights and
> 4 normal straights on the table, with the other halves of the cut straights
> forming the orthogonal roads leading away from the table.

Are you sure you really need these? (just about?) Everyone else that has done
turntables has just left a 1 stud gap and everything worked out fine. The larger
the radius of the table, the less trouble you'd have, I would expect.



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  Re: Question about point/switch modifications.
 
(...) I'm following your mods with interest. Since I know it's not commercially viable for TLC to make all these track shapes, I wondered do you make any of the following to sell: Half straights Half curves Diamond crossings (2 straights at 22.5 (...) (22 years ago, 7-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains)

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