> I sit with a pair of nippers and cut the heads roughly in half.
> Ed Kozlowsky
Gents.....
Ready for some one-upsmanship?
There is a local HO fellow here that used to hand file the points on spikes
before using them. He felt this was needed to prevent splitting of wood ties.
Sharp points worked much better in his opinion and the problem of split ties
went away.
His effort applied only to the older Walthers spikes which apparently had blunt
almost-points. He got so unhappy doing this that he called up Walthers and
read them the riot act and sent them samples of "good" spikes and "bad" spikes
along with a report that explains why things like that are important.
Within a year, the new improved Walthers spikes came out and all the handlaying
track guys are now smiling. The new spikes are also longer and liked by some S
guys as well.
Just goes to show that being helpful usually gets better end results than
merely complaining.
Cheers...Ed L.
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