kellyotn
01-07-2007, 06:21 PM
My son has several brands of wooden (Brio, Thomas, Target) train track. The Target set is big and nice. BUT, it has a raised bridge supported by two tippy blocks. The sloped pieces and the bridge need to balance precariously on these skinny, tippy blocks.
Anyway, I was opening a late gift from granny today and it was hyper-packaged with clear rubber bands (much like those clear Goody ponytail elastics). The train track was nearby, and I had an idea....
I wound them around the circle/male end of the precarious hill & bridge pieces of track. It ends up making the joint fit tight enough that if my son (28 months) knocks the bridge off the blocks, the joint stays together and he can reassemble it on his own. What a relief! ;) Fixed a mere two joints and things are so much easier! I don't think its tight enough that it could possibly damage anything, its not permanent, and the trains roll right over it.
I was always too cheap to buy the whatchamacallit (suretrack?) things. ;)
Anyway, I was opening a late gift from granny today and it was hyper-packaged with clear rubber bands (much like those clear Goody ponytail elastics). The train track was nearby, and I had an idea....
I wound them around the circle/male end of the precarious hill & bridge pieces of track. It ends up making the joint fit tight enough that if my son (28 months) knocks the bridge off the blocks, the joint stays together and he can reassemble it on his own. What a relief! ;) Fixed a mere two joints and things are so much easier! I don't think its tight enough that it could possibly damage anything, its not permanent, and the trains roll right over it.
I was always too cheap to buy the whatchamacallit (suretrack?) things. ;)