My home slot racing center, work in progress

[Florida_Slotter]

demether,

My bad. I missed that part.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with being wordy!

I try to never mince words.

[TuscoTodd]

WOW! That is shaping up nice!
Thanks for sharing the progress shots! :D

[SpeedyNH]

demether,
that's pretty excellent. and I'm a big pinball fan as well.
and you even can melt some ho cars and track in the winter! lol
where are you located? (just curious)
speedy

[demether]

[demether]

[SpeedyNH]

dem', that's real professional-looking, a nice fit in a nice room. congrats so far.
speed

[demether]

[TuscoTodd]

Definitely making quick progress! Congrats! :)

[demether]

thanks !

I just finished cutting the turns. I'll post pics soon ;)

[demether]

[demether]

[SpeedyNH]

I really like that nice thick laminated base. must have taken a bit of work to cut and fit all the pieces and glue them all together!

[demether]

Hopefully (if I understand correctly what you mean) I didn't assembled them myself. :mrgreen:

I'm wondering what kind of machine can assemble these little bits of pine into these big boards too !

The good thing is that it was about 50% cheaper than the usual big boards made of 2 or 3 big planks. It only cost me around 80usd (the main boards only , not the stands, cleats, etc...), wich is a pretty good price here in France, for real pine wood. Finally it was cheaper than plywood, mdf or even thick chipboard.

I also found nice fir wood posts for the HO track (around 2"x2", 2meters lenght) for just 3euros/5USD each !

Summer is a good period to build a track, at least here. People are focusing on their holidays, or gardening. It's not time for home improvement works and other similar stuff.

[SpeedyNH]

nice.
around these parts (the US), they call that "engineered lumber". now that I know that they're commercially made, it turns out that I have several large long beams made that way installed in my cellar, in order to cut down on the number of lally columns that hold the floor up. they're many times cheaper than solid wooden beams of the same load capacity.
reason I noticed it in your table application, is because I'm an amateur home woodworker and have read magazine articles about how people fabricate them themselves for custom tables.

[dreinecke]

That is fantastic thus far!