After having the track set up for a few days over the July holiday weekend, I decided to take it all back apart as I did not like how it looked. As I hand bent the curves originally, they looked all wonky and the joints had some unneeded stress on them. With all the ties removed I stacked them all so they are out of the way. Here you can see how being hand bent none of them match up for just being a circle. All that extra stress moved the track around a lot and bent up the connectors as there is no ballast yet. So I hammered them back straight and plum. With the new rail bender I got I straightened the rails back out again by running them in reverse. Then I ran them back through forwards putting just a small arc on them for now. The rail bender made short work of them and now they are all exact. Later when I put them back down properly with ballast I will bend them to the final curvature.
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