[Public-List] track car slides

[Bill Woodford]

Thank you to all who responded. I appreciate the input and I now have 
another project for the weekend.

Best regards,

Woody
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> John Maliszewski made a presentation on exactly this subject at the mtc.
> seminar. He had ordered some delrin spacers from McMaster Carr (
> www.mcmaster.com) and was going to use these. I thought it seemed like a
> very elegant solution...no rot, low friction, easy to machine.
> 
> Later,
> 
> JB
> 
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Jonathan Budington 
<jon at globalprinting.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > My oak shims rotted away under my genoa tracks.  I replaced them with
> > aluminum shims.  My local machine shop made them and drilled the holes
> > for about $200.
> >
> > Jon
> >
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> > Andrew L
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 8:20 AM
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> > Subject: Re: [Public-List] track car slides
> >
> > I used strips of teak cut to size on a table saw.  Take the track and
> > the car to the table saw and you can figure out how wide to make them so
> > they don't rub the car, and how thick to make it so the car doesn't
> > touch the deck.  I seem to recall the tolerances were just close enough
> > that I wouldn't try to cut the teak from measurements, I'm pretty sure I
> > had to shave it a couple times to get it just right without making it
> > too small.
> >
> > I don't see why you couldn't do it with Delrin instead, I just happened
> > to have some teak scraps laying around.
> >
> > Andrew Cole
> > Andante - 152
> >
> > >Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:21:31 -0500 (EST)
> > >From: Bill Woodford <williamwoodford at charleswoodford.com>
> > >Subject: [Public-List] track car slides
> >
> > >What is the preferred method for raising the track so that the car will
> > slide
> > >easily?  Thank you in advance for your suggestions.
> >
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