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Re: Has anyone considered molding track ourselves?
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 9 Mar 2009 00:25:03 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
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We all want new larger radius curves and other things. Also, Big Ben
Bricks, BrickArms and others have been able to successfully mold and sell
new custom parts.
Has anyone ever considered extending this and doing some kind of molding of
new track pieces ourselves? Has anyone ever done some investigation of how
much it would cost for a mold for a larger radius curve or other new track
shapes?
Would people (and e.g. train clubs) be willing to donate towards the
(potentially high) costs for producing such a mold? (my guess is that once
the mold is made, the actual costs of producing the parts would not be huge
in bulk volumes)
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I think some people have investigated this in the past for 9V and found that the
cost was to great to warrant proceeding. That said, it is probably more
feasible for the ‘RC Track’ since you would not have to deal with the metal
rails.
However, it appears that LEGO might be fixing the track geometry issue with this
nifty new element.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jastermereel08/3335067544/in/pool-legotrains
Only time will tell though.
-Dave
ToT-LUG
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| We all want new larger radius curves and other things. Also, Big Ben Bricks, BrickArms and others have been able to successfully mold and sell new custom parts. Has anyone ever considered extending this and doing some kind of molding of new track (...) (16 years ago, 8-Mar-09, to lugnet.trains)
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