--- In [email protected], "somothrguy2003" <eken...@...> wrote:
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> What do you use to seal up the Homasote in order to resist moisture?
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Haha, You use moisture, wet paint!
There must be varying grades of homasote cause the kind I've seen is bullet
proof, I've seen tests where it was boiled and I've found bits in my yard that
were lost in the dirt for 20 or 30 years and still sound.Despite that moisture
resistance I don't use it any more cause it's just got a nasty texture to look
at and work with.
It is the best thing I've found for the old method of hand spiking track down
to thin ties, the spike points don't bend when they exit the ties and hit
homasote unlike they do with plywood roadbed. For O scale track I found the
ties were thick enough to leave out the homasote so I stopped using it, if I
ever get around to building an S scale layout I plan to experiment with just a
thin sheet of cork or other soft material under the ties to give the spike
points some clearance so they don't hit the plywood.....dave
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