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HELP!!!! Bachmenn E-Z track qustion

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HELP!!!! Bachmenn E-Z track qustion
Posted by bighead on Sunday, March 11, 2007 1:34 PM

i have a few bachmenn E-Z track peices the curves are HO 18". i was wondering if the track is somehow seperable from the plastic road bed. i know you aren't supposed to seperate it but was wondering if there is a trick to it. i also have some 9" straights i want to seperate. on the bottom of the track is one peg and then two holes by each end of the track and one hole next to the peg. thats for the curve for the straight there are little pegs near each end of the track and on one end there is a larger peg next to the other peg. i might most pics. if my camra works but there is a little shot of some of the track in my avatar. any help will be greatly aprreciated! thanks so much for any feedback

 

 

-jake

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Posted by Railphotog on Sunday, March 11, 2007 1:47 PM

Why would you want to separate the track from the plastic roadbed?  Why not just buy some Atlas snap track?   A whole lot simpler, and you would not be ruining the more expensive E-Z track.

 

 

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Posted by bighead on Sunday, March 11, 2007 1:48 PM
i know but i got these for free and i don't like the plastic road bed i'd rather live without it.
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Posted by SpaceMouse on Sunday, March 11, 2007 1:54 PM

 bighead wrote:
i know but i got these for free and i don't like the plastic road bed i'd rather live without it.

I built my layout out of EZ-track because I had it. Now I am tearing out two years work because I was too cheap to do it right in the first place. Just do it right and don't pinch on the most important part of the layout.

IF your track don't work, you ain't got squat.

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Posted by bighead on Sunday, March 11, 2007 1:55 PM
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Posted by selector on Sunday, March 11, 2007 2:33 PM

The stuff is either heat bonded or glued, or press-fit so well that you will damage every item, and not be happy with what you have left...all that mess to clean up and nothing useful to show for it.   I know...I tried it once.

Use the Atlas filler if you need it here and there, or just spring for flex track like 80+% of us do.

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Sunday, March 11, 2007 4:17 PM
The track can be seperated from the base by inserting the point of a butter knife betweenb the ties and roadbed at one end and gently prying the track up being careful not to bend or warp it. It will come off, I've done it on numerous occasions.

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Posted by bighead on Sunday, March 11, 2007 4:46 PM
ok thanks i'll try that
What do you call a freight train full of bubble gum? A chew chew train! :] T.R. quote: "A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad." visit: http://s149.photobucket.com/albums/s74/bighead98565/
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Posted by bighead on Sunday, March 11, 2007 5:06 PM
didn't work but i've got a few more peices to try so any more suggestions will be welcomed.
What do you call a freight train full of bubble gum? A chew chew train! :] T.R. quote: "A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad." visit: http://s149.photobucket.com/albums/s74/bighead98565/

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