HO Scale, #6 Double Slipover Assembly Fixture

[torikoos]

It is very nice indeed, but I hate to think what that thing should cost (oh looking at it now, it costs 200 bucks...). Looking at a simple curved turnout kit from the same website , they charge over 200 bucks for that too, no way!! <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.handlaidtrack.com/HO-6-Curved-Turnout-Track-Kits-for-Code-83-Rail-s/787.htm">http://www.handlaidtrack.com/HO-6-Curve ... -s/787.htm</a><!-- m -->
That is waaaaaayyyy to much money to spend on a turnout. I could easily just get a couple of lengths of flex rail and steel the rail from that, buy me a bag of wooden ties and spikes, a photocopied turnout plan, a few jigs (home made), an NMRA gauge, some basic tooling like nippers and a few files, and lots of patience, and build the whole thing for the same amount as a factory turnout would cost me (several for that matter), having the fun of making it myself, on real wooden ties, etc... If I want to push the boat out, then get a superdetail kit from the proto87 store, but that would be it, 200 bucks or more? They are seriously joking right? Model railroading IS fun, but with these prices I can't see the fun anymore.... :-)

I guess it's not for me, not this way anyway....