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Subject:	Re: Has anyone considered molding track ourselves?
Newsgroups:	lugnet.trains
Date:	Mon, 9 Mar 2009 19:47:04 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Dave Sterling wrote:

In lugnet.trains, Jonathan Wilson wrote:

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)

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

With a little modding to the internal curves of the parts shown in the picture above, it might be possible to support ballast from underneath the track like this:

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/mbellis/Trains/Ballasting-Track/ft_ballast_m_bellis.jpg

Mark

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		New Flexible Track Pieces (was: Has anyone considered molding track ourselves?)
(...) Here is a further picture, showing 64 flexible track pieces in set 8867. The gaps between the two halves of each track piece are smaller than in the previous picture, and there are fewer studs for attaching ballast: (URL) To ballast it means (...) (15 years ago, 13-Mar-09, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.parts.mod, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.announce, FTX)

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		Re: Has anyone considered molding track ourselves?
(...) 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. (...) (15 years ago, 9-Mar-09, to lugnet.trains, FTX)

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