All you guys looking for bridge flextrack should go back to what makes S famous, scratch building! I am not knocking Tomalco track and switches, which is quality stuff, but years ago I made two jigs. One takes standard road ties with road spacing. The other, on the back of the same board, takes 8 x 8 x 10 bridge ties, spaced 8 apart. The bridge jig holds about 18 of ties. The road jig holds 36. Sure, that means on the bridge jig I think I glued about 150 blocks and I am sure twice that on the road jig, but they last forever. I insert stained basswood ties and then run a strip of ¼ wide masking tape down the center line, then pick them up and store them in rolls. My road track is set with Walthers Goo and reinforced with spikes in every tie using my Kadee spiker. The bridge and trestle ties dont get the spikes but I find the Goo holds them just fine and if it ever needs adjustment a little heat from my soldering iron does the trick. The inside guard rails are also held with Goo. My over 10 long bridge-trestle combination which was pictured on the SHS website is alive and well. I have 8 x 8 basswood edges on all the bridges and trestles but they are just glued to the ends of the ties with white glue. Oh, yes, and water buckets every 100 feet or so on alternate sides. Wally Collins
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Degnan Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2006 7:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Bridge Flex - Homemade Homemade bridge flex... this gives an INTERESTING idea!!! I wonder how good the result would look if one were to take some regular Tomalco flex track and remove ALL of the webbing (the plastic connecting pieces directly under that rail) between the ties and slide all of the ties closer together, then mount it on top of the rest of the trestle structure? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
