Greetings from Carpet Central. I would like to be able to use the O27 track I have seperate from the fastrack that I already am using on carpet. I was wondering if anyone has ever screwed pieces of it to cardboard for a temporary layout as to not place it directly on the carpet and risk fiber damage. If not this, anything else that is an almost free, reversible temporary solution?
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Put a bed sheet under the track. I know, I know, not nearly complicated enough for most here.
Cardboard might be bad in the event of a short.
I think running a thick bead of silicone under each tie might be a better way to secure the roadbed to the track. Perhaps if you cut each piece a quarter or half inch longer than the track on each end, it would overlap the next piece and make the seams blend better.
Never tried any of this, I would be interested in seeing your results.
J White
Some good ideas here, perhaps use form core boards cut to the same size of the fastrack and spray painted grey could blend in nicely. Use a glue gun to secure the track, which would make it easy to separate later, if needed.
Put a bed sheet under the track. I know, I know, not nearly complicated enough for most here.
You mean like...find someone that needs a barn taken down. Take this free wood and...yada, yada.
I don't know the size of your layout, but when I was running on the floor, with just a long loop and a siding, I did exactly this -- cut up a cardboard box into 'strips' that the 027 track sat on with about 1/2 inch to an inch out from each side, painted it green, then started all over again and painted it grey 
. I didn't screw the cardboard to the track, I just attached it at the ties with duct tape. (I had in mind to use the same track whenever I got a more permanent layout - that I made on a folding table the next year.
What Jumijo said.
Since it is temporary, no need to over engineer or over think it.
Curt
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