06-29-2010, 09:31 PM
I suppose in my lengthy, slowly typed explanation above, I neglected to mention that I was hand laying rail when I did that and electrical feeders were soldered to the bottom of the base of each section of rail. The places where the rails were soldered together were either a transition as described above, or because there was a need to do so because the joint came on a curve.
In general, I didn't solder joints on tangent track ... just glued in the plastic scraps to insulate and isolate when that was necessary, and used additional spikes in the several ties on either side of a glued up insulated joint (no, not that kind of joint!) I tried like hell to keep insulated gaps off curved track due to the obvious need to find some alternative to soldering to maintain proper alignment.
In general, I didn't solder joints on tangent track ... just glued in the plastic scraps to insulate and isolate when that was necessary, and used additional spikes in the several ties on either side of a glued up insulated joint (no, not that kind of joint!) I tried like hell to keep insulated gaps off curved track due to the obvious need to find some alternative to soldering to maintain proper alignment.
biL
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Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln