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2. A module
is 308 mm (12
1/8 inches)
long. That’s
2 millimeters
(1/16th inch)
short of the 310
mm (about 12
3/16 inches)
you’ll get from
Kato track.
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3. That 2 mm
deficit is to
make sure the
track joins
cleanly without
the ends of
the module
interfering. For
that reason, you
want the ends
of your track to
stick out over
each end of the
module.
need to make the module to just shy of this length [2]. In fact,
you want your module to be just a few millimeters (or 32nds of
an inch, roughly the same) short to make sure that the tracks
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