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Date Posted: 14:45:18 07/09/03 Wed
Author: Frenchman
Subject: track repair, track repair
In reply to: eddie 's message, "frenchy" on 20:55:05 07/08/03 Tue

The answer is "Yes." The hole can be fixed by first sawcutting w/ a pavement saw, excavating the existing asphalt and base course (if any exists), then go full depth asphalt (say 12") and the hole will go away. The tough part of the job is in the profile (smoothness). That is why you see a QC guy pushing this long aluminum appartus w/ bicycle wheels called a profilograph as hwy overlays are being conducted. It's a surface tolerance check, somewhat like placing a straightedge over a cylinder block to check for straightness. This quality checking apparatus is called the "California profilograph" and is a rolling straightedge.
You get what you pay for in an asphalt overlay job. These small contractors that you see with these small laydown machines have short wheelbases w/ no grade compensation devices. It would be like comparing a short wheel-base vehicle to a longer one. The longer vehicle will yield a better ride; same goes in laydown eqt. Big contractors have larger, more accurate eqt that gives the smoothness that racers would prefer. I'd suggest waiting like my aforementioned post inferred.
It can be done by your small guy laydown company, but you will invariably "get what you pay for." Will it be smooth enough? I don't know. I don't know how long the "hole" is. Personally, my longer wheelbase car drives through it and I barely feel it.
I don't think that your small guy laydown man can do it per a racer's perspective, but maybe. (The hole in question exists at a favorable area, a low speed section of the track. If you want to see the smoothness offered by a small laydown patch man, go ride out Main St in Pineville and turn onto Shamrock St as if you were going to Central Hospital, (Jen's house, de Ville de Foux,) and see for yourselves what a small guy laydown job rides like. Compare it to the recent, DOTD specced ride tolerance asphalt laydown , between the I-49/ hwy 71 interesection and LSUA. This is the difference. Judge for yourself. Maybe I'm being to picky, but have you ever asked a top notch body shop to give your ride a $500 paint job. They will probably just turn you down, not wanting to ruin their name.
If the Eunice track was mine, for the money involved, I would pull our life-saving ambulance aside, identify the hole, pop a stringline around it, sawcut this failing area w a pavement saw, remove it w/ a hyd excavator, dump this saturated crap in the pond, fill it full-depth asphalt (12"), roll it, let it cool for 36 hrs, then sweep the loose aggregate w/ a real rotary broom, one that has the ass to do the job; THEN tell Jen to bring that striped, freak-show car over 'cause as soon as I'm finished fixing the track, she is gonna get fixed next. (he he he)

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