[Silberpfeil_pt]

Hi!

Today when I was swiming

an idea appear in my mind: why any factory produce a straigth with one meter long?

For long straigths less pieces would be used, saving energy and improving the speed of cars (I think!). The negative side I see is the package and storing this pieces.

Just a thought...

 

[Robert Davies]

Seems like a good idea to me....

I'd certainly buy track in metre lengths, or 3 x scalex/carrera std straight lengths.

-Rob

 

[GRAH1]

Dont carrera do this allready
Graham

 

[Silberpfeil_pt]

QUOTE Dont carrera do this allready

As far as I know the longest Carrera straigths are the three pieces to build the bridge.

 

[thomas]

...no, CArrera does not. They had double lenght straights in the Universal program and still offer them in teh Profi-line (1/40).
Longer straights would make sense - minimum double the length of the acual ones!
I'm routing the long straights by myself out of MDF - it's easy and much cheaper than purchsing lot's of standard straights

Will report and make pictures whe I set up the new track together with Swiss...

 

[Mecoprop]

A double length straight has been proposed several times on different forums and it really IS a good idea. Support for it has always been unanimous, yet not a peep from the manufacturers, which is strange.

I think a full metre length is too much, though. It would be difficult to manufacture accurately and, as has been mentioned, packaging and transport would be quite problematic. I feel there would probably be quite a small demand for that length anyway.

But here is a vote for double length straights -definitely!