Very nice Scaf!
Well....you could mount 2x4 on the edge so they meet....drill them through...then glue a dowl in one side for a pin and jioner style...
The "female" would need just a slight amount of play...
As for pulling them together...
How about some tie down clamps...like they style from a tool box...that draws the sides together as they clamp down...
You almost need to two people to do it though in order to get the track to connect at the same time...
UNLESS....you think about something I had come up with like a removable model train bridge...
all track would be static (secured)...and the bridge piece would just set into the space between them...
two ways to power the "bridge"....
either with a set of jumpers...
Or ...
Brass spring contacts set into the bottom of the "bridge"...hell...you could use a set up pick up shoes for each lane if you modified them...
You dont need to carry power "through" the joint if you wire the table sections with a quick disconnect.....you only need to power the bridge someway..
This way...you could put the table together by yourself....then drop in the joiner pieces after wards...some simple holes in the table and pins glued on the bottom of the joiner section could ensure alinement..
Or maybe on the extreme...adapt to lock and joiner style just for the "bridge" between the tables...so you wouldnt have to hack the track ends flat...
Just an idea...I been thinking about how to do my future track in a modular form as well...and make it easy to set up...
I'd like to be able to set it up as an 8 lane long oval...or a 4 lane road coarse...
My big table would contain the 4 lane road coarse with an over pass etc...
And a short 3x3 , 8 lane curve set could be used instead of running onto the long table...to create a 18 ft long 8 lane oval...( my two narrow tables are 7'6" long and 38" wide)...
In other words...with the big table...the inside four lanes would run out and back...and the outside four lanes would run out and back...
With the short section...it would be an 8 lane..
It would take some extra wiring to keep the lanes separate...and some jumpers for use when a road course...but I really want to be able to take it and set it up other places sometime...
I would also need two separate timing interfaces....one on the big table as a four lane...
and one on the short curve section as an 8 lane...
When I have a minute (sure..LOL ) I'll add my thoughts to the "mid ohio" layout pics I posted a while ago...so you can see what I'm talking about...
*evil mad scientist laugh*
