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                        How to get kinks out of vinyl tracks?

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                        dirkpitt77
                        • Member since
                          January 2006
                        • From: NW Washington
                        How to get kinks out of vinyl tracks?
                        Posted by dirkpitt77 on Wednesday, September 2, 2015 12:35 PM

                        Anybody know if I can just warm these up in, say, hot water to reshape them? They were laid in the box folded up and have kinks in not real great places, so I want to straighten them out. 

                         

                        Thanks!

                         

                        Chris

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                        armornut
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                          March 2007
                        • From: Northeast WA State
                        Posted by armornut on Wednesday, September 2, 2015 1:09 PM

                        Yes warming them in warm to hot water will soften them ,when you get them soft lay them out flat with  weight until they cool. The method I use is gravity, when I begin my model I take the vinyl tracks and tack them to the wall, the warmth of the room and time it takes to build usually gets them flat enough to use without complications.

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                        dirkpitt77
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                          January 2006
                        • From: NW Washington
                        Posted by dirkpitt77 on Thursday, September 3, 2015 12:32 PM

                        Ok, yep, I've had them weighted or hanging off my monitor for a while and it looks like they're straightening out. Thanks!

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