by waaytoomuchintothis » Wed Sep 24, 2014 11:57 am
I can't host until I fix the track. Its very nearly a rebuild. The moisture that got to it when it was stored by the previous owner swelled the MDF which narrowed the slot a lot. Also the paint I used has less traction every day, and worst of all, the tape I used was 12 or 14 years old and is coming up all over. The small area of one lane where I used fresher tape is stuck so well, I will have to scrape it up. So, I'm taking the whole thing down, re-setting it, re-routing it to get the slot the proper size, and painting it with the blacktop formula I used on the old track, and finally, retaping with brand new tape.
I am still tentatively on the schedule to host the IROC in October, but I don't know if I'll make it. It takes much longer to restore than to just build a track. But this was our best track, and we all had years of good fun with it, and I want to do it right. Set up the way it is, it was a blast until the paint and tape problems started.