Originally Posted by ams:
Slightly off the topic, but I continue to be surprised that after ~75 years, there's no good/easy way to join O27 and O31 tubular. Seems like an easy solution that didn't involve ramming in pins would have come decades ago. Aside from the height issue (not a big deal) it seems like tons of O27-to-O31 pins would be out there. Is there such a thing floating around, and I've just never seen them?
Since ramming the O31 pins in and reforming the track works fine, I don't think there's been a huge incentive to join the two types. FWIW, you might be able to adapt the Gargraves pins to do the trick, I've never tried.