Securing Train Tracks?

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  • MG&Lsmom
    Daycare.com Member
    • Oct 2010
    • 549

    Securing Train Tracks?

    Has anyone successfully secured wooden train tracks and bridges to a surface? Barnes and Noble has their set all screwed & glued together so we go play there a lot. I would love to secure our set or even just the raised pieces in chunks to help alleviate the frustration of the whole thing falling apart at the slightest touch. But I'm afraid of ruining it.
  • Crystal
    Advanced Daycare.com Member
    • Dec 2009
    • 4002

    #2
    I used Gorilla Glue on mine when I had one. Use very sparingly though or it will ooze out from underneath....the glue expands when drying.

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    • MG&Lsmom
      Daycare.com Member
      • Oct 2010
      • 549

      #3
      Originally posted by Crystal
      I used Gorilla Glue on mine when I had one. Use very sparingly though or it will ooze out from underneath....the glue expands when drying.
      I've had some experience with overuse of Gorilla Glue ::

      Right now the track is taped to the dining room floor and everyone had a blast all afternoon with it. Unfortunately it can not stay there as it's the walk through to the whole house.

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      • Kaddidle Care
        Daycare.com Member
        • Dec 2010
        • 2090

        #4
        How about Fun Tack? I'd hate to see you glue it - as the kids get older part of the fun is creating new tracks to play with.

        My husband hot glued a little HO track to a board. It's in an oval and was meant to go round the Christmas Tree. Unfortunately there always seems to be something preventing us from using it. Young child, puppy, kitten.. hehe!

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        • MG&Lsmom
          Daycare.com Member
          • Oct 2010
          • 549

          #5
          DH is brilliant. Masking taped the track to the train table surface. Not so sticky that we can't change it easily and not so wobbly to come tumbling down. I had to pry the kids away so we could go on our field trip to the zoo this morning. Where they were going to ride a REAL train. ::

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          • E Daycare
            Happy cause Im insane.
            • Dec 2010
            • 518

            #6
            I bought a train table and thomas train set recently for my DS birthday as hes a nut job about thomas and EVERY day I say "THATS IT IM GOING TO GLUE IT" because omg is it a pain! I hear "mommy do, mommy fix it" all the time. Im going to buy a few sets and glue them together and change them out when I change out the other toys.

            Otherwise there might be pieces of train track every where as Mrs E goes bat butt crazy and just tosses the darn thing out the window.
            "Being a parent is wanting to hug and strangle your kid at the same time".

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            • countrymom
              Daycare.com Member
              • Aug 2010
              • 4874

              #7
              long ago, the thomas the train company sold a plastic mat so you can put your train on it. Well I wrapped it around my train table, table top so it was easy to wipe. So I have alot of trains, but I decided to do a stationary one, and I used double sided tape, it was great and the kids loved it, except this one really bad bad boy (he got termed for peeing all over my ds's room) he decided to rip every single piece off the train table. I was so mad, he did it in seconds, what took me forever he undid in seconds. He was punished and he wrecked it for all the other kids. Now he's been gone for a while, and we used the table top for the guinea pig-till he passed away at christmas, so with september rolling around the corner I was thinking of giving it another shot. The kids loved it so much and played forever when it was set up.

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