Crossroads Speedway upgrade!

[btaylor]

Well I finally made enough room to do what I had wanted all along. I built myself a wood oval!
The old Artin has been very good to me, but the desire for a wood track was just to strong. Here are a few construction pics taken today.
Just a basic 16x6 table with 1/2" osb for the base.Then four sheets of 1/2" MDF went over that. A bit of routing went on. A few mistakes with the router, and a little heavy on the banking, but all is fixed now! Four inch lane spacing with a six inch gutter. and its just about time to paint and tape! More pics when I get some more done.

Bob

[HomeRacingWorld]

Looking good!! Nothing is quite like track building, and because it's an oval just makes it nicer.

[ourwayband]

Great looking Track Bob!

Rusty

[hoganracing]

Looking good, sir.

You guys make this look so easy.

Anxiously awaiting further developments.

Patrick

[Racie35]

Dang! I'm jealous.....looks really good so far

[Racie35]

What's the footprint? I see now...16x6

[GASSERMAN]

Really nice looking start on your lay out Bob. Hope to start on mine soon. Keep posting the pictures Bob. Keep up the good work. I see that when you started routing you didn't start at the edge of the wood. You started in further. So,is that a plunge router? Thanks. Bob................

[Racie35]

I wish yould come make me 2 oval turns!!

[btaylor]

Bob, I did use my little Bosch plunge router on this. Made life a little easier on the corners. It is a light weight router though, and I wobbled off my straight guide a couple of times. Fixed it with the old bondo trick, and all is good now. I based my banking off what I had done on my Artin track. and found it to be a bit to aggressive for my tastes. I went back and shimmed the center to take out some of the drastic bank. should get paint this weekend, and maybe taped by mid week.

Bob

[Nor Cal Mike]

Cool track Bob. Can't wait to see it when you get her all decked out.

[btaylor]

Thanks Mike! pretty basic oval really, but fun none the less. I got two coats of semi gloss latex on her at this point. One more coat and its on to taping! My trigger finger is getting itchy! :auto-driving:

Bob

[ccobra]

Ok, I know its been explained a 1003 times or was it 1004 times, but could you show some detail on how you got the banking in with the sheet of MDF. I just watch a video of how to bend wood yesterday without using steam, but now I need to go get a band saw.
Nice looking track. :banana-dance:

[Racie35]

Is that latex paint pretty much the norm that people use? Sure looks nice :banana-dance:

[btaylor]

Harry best describes the banking in his thread on rebuilding his oval.
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=13815
I went a little overboard on mine to begin with! I am still a bit more than most, but I like it. The MDF will flex a LOT without pinching the slots.
The latex seems to be the standard for wood tracks, I used it on both my plastic tracks as well, and had good results.

[woodman]

Nothing like wood, Bob you do great work, that will be a blast with those cars plenty of open wheel action....