Dan Padova posted:About three years ago I purchased some Menards "O" gauge tubular track. It's appearance did not come up to what I had been used to from Lionel and K-Line. In that purchase were 30" straights. That was a mistake on my part. They were too long to be useful for my purpose and cutting them was not the problem, but the rigidness was. I cut them in a jig and once cut they lost some of their rigidity.
So I had two full cases of 30" straights that I had not opened and tried selling them. They went to the buyer and he complained so loudly that I had to refund his money and pay for shipping back to me. I did not want to risk a blemish on my Ebay rating. His argument was that the track would ruin his locomotives. Anyway, I only use Williams or Lionel tubular track nowadays.
As Cabinet Bob said above, the Menards track of the last couple of years has been improved. I can vouch for that based on my own experience of Menards track in 2017. It has constantly been in service with no issues. So, its not really accurate to reply based on the three-year old track.
