Hi, I haven't tried either one, but back in the early 90's I found that bending in the ties often resulted in failure after a year or so out in the weather. The foot of the rail did not go through the rollers and thus had greater internal stresses and exerted a warpage type twist to the rails after a period of time. Although I'm out of the business, my bender is still being manufactured and marketed by Lewis Polk. It is so much nicer to be able to take periodic 'commission' checks to the bank and not have to go through all the hassle of machining, packaging, shipping, getting rubber checks from customers, etc. Keep your steam up! Mr. Lunkenheimer's associate. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Small-scale live steam discussions'" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 8:26 PM Subject: [SSLiveSteam] Bending Two Rails at the same time
> There are actually two different track benders (bending both rails at > once). > http://www.massoth.de/index2.html > http://www.train-li-usa.com/railbender.html > > Has anyone had experience with either or both tools? > > ~ Gary - scudding over my favorite trestle in Eugene, Oregon > http://community.webshots.com/user/raltzenthor > http://www.angelfire.com/or/trainguy/ > > _______________________________________________ > SSLiveSteam mailing list > Send messages: [email protected] > Cancel subscription: http://postfix.45mm.com/mailman/listinfo/sslivesteam > Rules: http://www.45mm.com/sslivesteam_guide.html > > _______________________________________________ SSLiveSteam mailing list Send messages: [email protected] Cancel subscription: http://postfix.45mm.com/mailman/listinfo/sslivesteam Rules: http://www.45mm.com/sslivesteam_guide.html
