I have to order most of my stuff online, sight unseen.
:Picked up my Walters//shinohara 90 degree crossing yesterday. Had no others to compare....
this one does not sit flat on a flat surface. Shouldn't it be flat without me having to spike or glue it down? which I am going to do anyway,...use latex caulk that is......but I would rather it be flat to begin with rather than the caulk having to pull it down flat and keep it there.
Maybe I will just exchange it anyway online.
Cisco
I have had the same problems with their turnouts. Sometimes putting a weight on them overnight flattens them and other times I have caulked them down. They all worked perfect after, and that's what counts.
I think it is the way the rails have been put through the ties during manufacture that causes this. I have also straightened them by bending them carefully by hand. If you return it, you're likely to just get another with the same issues.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."