User:Johnson60/About Tracks, Ducts, Rails and Slides

The parts produced as Roll Formed Tracks, Ducts, Rails and Slides, may not seem to be different. As a matter of fact, there are similarities, but they can differ in many ways as well. This page will concentrate on differences and similarities involving mainly Metal Roll Formed Tracks. How a Roll Formed Part is used and how the most important criteria that assigns the part is the title of "Tracks".

U-Channels, C-Channels, Hat Channels, Strut Channels, Open Seam Tubing and many other Profiles can all be used as, and called Tracks. The usage that labels a part as a Track is when something is riding inside or outside along the part used as a Track. Sorry, no railroad tracks here, except for tiny roll formed model train track profile sections. Railroad tracks do give a picture of the motion involved in the use of Tracks.