I want to make the easiest and cheapest most effective tuning board quickly

[Deckard]

Now last year I used a lamented train table section that was about four feet long to tune my cars. We got ride of the train table but I tried to make sure my wife kept the board. She didn't. Now I need to hastily make a tuning board and don't have a good long coffee table to use. Any suggestions? I thought about using flat painted door I can take off the hinges. It's fine if it's not professional looking or perfect. I just need something that works. I can get parts but they need to be inexpensive like something I can get at home depot that won't take up a lot of room to store. Thoughts or ideas?

 

[Castoro Racing]

Use a full length mirror

 

[Jimmy & his 2 Kids]

So far I use a 4’ shelf. Pulled down off the wall, throw a ruler along the bottom showing me inches. Lay it down on the floor with anything big enough under one end that will allow enough space to get my fingers under it to lift it to about 1.5” and watch my cars roll.
Cheap as cheap can get. But I am able to tune how ever much steer I want over 4’.
Don’t get me wrong, I want to build a good board from glass with graphics, start rail and bounce back foam.
But for our Awana level racing it works good enough.

 

[TRE]

Get closet mirror from walmart 14 bucks

 

[davet]

6 ' shelf board from Menards. 6' Leaves room for you to start the car and get a good 48" reading without going off the end.
One long length of blue masking tape running the length of the board and another at 90 degrees at the end of that one with 1/4" marks on it out to about 5". Its light and won't break.

 

[SuperSlow]

I do what tre said, cheap, super smooth n flat on wheels, you know for a fact its clean on your wheels, easy to wipe down