The title of your thread says it all. With all due respect, yes, you are being cheap, and at the cost of performance.
Often, photos can deceive, but in addition to that relatively huge gap on the lower rail, it sure looks like a hump on that upper rail.
Get rid of that little wood shim while you are at it.
If I lived anywhere near you in upstate New York, I would drive over with a piece of flextrack.
Rich
Alton Junction
Re-lay the flex track that's cut to the proper length. Sorry.
- Douglas
Hello all, thank you for all the replies about the curved grade in the other thread. I now have a new question: Because I switched the type of turnout I was using in a particular location, there's now about a 1/4 inch gap between the flextrack and turnout. Since this piece of flextrack is custom cut and the ties are cut for joining around the corner, I don't really want to buy, paint, and use a longer piece. What is the best way to fill this small, yet significant gap?
My current solution was to cut small pieces of rail and join them with rail jointers, but this isn't perfectly smooth (for whatever reason, most of my joints come out too high or low, or imperfect). Is this an OK solution, or am I missing something here?
Harrison
Homeschooler living In upstate NY a.k.a Northern NY.
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