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Those eof you who have been contributing to this forum for a while, will remember the discussions regarding this subject. For those who do not recall; I bend my own track out of club rail 3.7 m or 11'11" long and in so doing i was getting a negative camber on bends eg the outer track was lower than the inner track. We looked at many things and only trwo things seemed to work 1/ not making both rails the same and allowing for a smaller internal curve. 2/ over a period of time packing the outer curve up, whilst trying to hold the inner curve down. These both worked to an extent but not as well as i would like. I was initially using our clubs rail bender. We recently had to reroute the 10 m track connecting area 2 to area 1 and as it was such a small job we didn't bother borrowing the clubs bender. We had two left hand R3 bends and about an R3 "S" about 2 m long. One of the left hand bends had a slight camber problem which we were able to overcome with ballasting. The rest were perfect; we used a locally made bender which we had borrowed for this small job. It works on a slightly different principle to the clubs one. After all the trouble we had, the one thing we didn't consider originally was the bender itself. I am now pretty well convinced that the problem was largely caused by the bender Any thoughts on this salient matter that has actually got something to do with building a garden madel railway? Rgds ian.
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