[GoodTrackRoad]

Anyone know where I can find HO flex track templates?
I’m not familiar with them so any advice is also wanted thanks.

-Justin

 

[T-Man]

Template to draw up a layout, or use one to lay track?

 

[GoodTrackRoad]

Lay track sorry,

you know like different radius turns and such.

 

[T-Man]

When done here the members made their own. One laid out everything in carboard. With a pencil and string you can draw out templates on cardboard and use those as guides. After doing my loop I wish I had used a straight edge. The curves came out even because the brass resisted every twist. Don't know of any commercially available.

 

[lanceh5]

I bought some about 20 yrs ago from a hobby train store in Anaheim, CA. They are placed inside the rails and were about 1/8" thick and about 8" long made from aluminum. Very helpful.

 

[stationmaster]

Are you talking about a rail laying guide for laying rail by hand? I've been in this hobby a long time and have never seen, nor heard of, a flex track template. But, then again, I may have been living a sheltered life.......

Bob

 

[tankist]

err, isn't the point of flex track is to conform to exact desired shape?
why would you need template? does it really matter if its 23.5R, 26.7"R or 24.25R ? you draw what fits in your given space and then just lay it down.

or am i missing somethig?

 

[stationmaster]

Kinda my thinkin', Anton.

Bob