About a year and a half ago I picked up a new bag of ME spikes. I sent them a email asking them about the change. Some one wrote back saying they had changed suppliers and weren't happy with the product either. Maybe not enough unhappy to fix the product. I'm likely to change to the Walthers spikes after seeing them at brother Steve's a while ago. Ben Trousdale
--- In [email protected], "scale S only" <scalesonly@...> wrote: > > Hi Roger -- > > I donât know what happened to ME, but their current spikes are nowhere near > as good as they were 25 years ago, and that was verified recently when I > scrapped out a piece of hand lay track from the old SLE&P. The Walthers > spikes are even better than the old ME spikes, though. > I had a couple of places (over under-track magnets, trestles) where I thought > I could use the ME micro spikes, but I donât have a tool that can reliably > hold them. I shoot more of them off into space than into the ties... They > make an interesting bit of scenery if left piled near some track supplies, > even if they are just a tad too large for true scale. I am not sure that > one could even see truly scale spikes as more than just a bit of fine wire > fuzz. And speaking of such things, I salvage the ties from the scrapped > track as much as possible. They have very realistic looking marks left over > from the rails -- and spike holes, of course -- more scenery items for around > the track maintenance area (rails, frogs, spikes, tie plates and ties)... > And I actually do reuse some of the old ties now and then. > Have fun! > Bill Winans > --------------------------------- > > Bill, > > Youâre right: the Walthers âCode 83/100â spikes are very nice. I > bought some to play with because when I opened a new bag of Micro Engineering > âSmall Spikesâ, I discovered that they have changed from the ones that I > have been using. The heads are large, misshaped and ugly. They are almost > unusable. > > In the more visible places, I still prefer the Micro Engineering âMicro > Spikesâ. Not great holding power until the ballast glue is applied, but > they are close in size to the spikes on the Tomalco flex Track that I use. > > Roger Nulton > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> 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/
