Fast Tracks

It has been a long time coming, but we are very close to releasing our complete line of curved turnout assembly fixtures and QuickSticks laser cut ties for virtually every scale and size turnout that we currently offer! This new line of tools and supplies will be priced exactly the same as our straight turnout tools and will be available for order on our website very shortly.

The only thing that stands between now and our release is figuring out what radiuses we should produce. The techniques that we have developed to produce curved turnouts allows us to make virtually any radius imaginable while still maintaining the correct size and geometry of the turnout. Since it is really not practical to offer all possible radiuses, our plan is to offer at least three different radiuses for each scale and size of turnout.

As you might imagine, trying to determine what radiuses we should offer is a daunting task as there are literally thousands of possible sizes. That is where you come in! We have prepared an online survey that you are invited to participate in. The survey only has 2 questions - the scale that you model in, and what three radiuses of curved turnouts that you would find most useful. We will then use the results of this survey to select three different curved turnout radiuses for each scale.

The survey is available now (April 3) and will remain available until November 1, 2006. We will use whatever information that we gather in the next few weeks to launch our line of curved turnouts and will continue to modify our size offerings as more people complete the survey.

So now is your chance to directly influence what radiuses of curved turnouts that we will offer! You can start the survey now by going to:

http://www.handlaidtrack.com/surveys.php

Thank you for helping out!

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Cheers!

Ron Warris
Fast Tracks