12-05-2011, 11:02 AM
The experience of those modelers in the modular club who have tried the transition joiner (not sure if it was Micro engineering or not) was that they were not very strong and liable to collapse at the transition point. The preferred method that they all recommended was to install a code 100 rail joiner on the code 100 track, and then smash the other end of the joiner and solder the code 83 track to the smashed end making sure that the alignment is correct. I don't remember for sure, but I think one member found that he could slide 1/2 of a code 100 joiner over the flattened end of the joiner and slide the code 83 rail into the 1/2 code 100 joiner, and then solder it all together. Our club requires code 100 on the mainline because some members have old style Rivarossi locomotives with the pizza cutter wheels that they have installed decoders on to, and the code 100 is required to provide clearance.