--- In [email protected], "Roger Nulton" wrote:
>
> Chris,
>
> The ME Micro Spikes look just like the spikes from a Kadee spiker when
driven. They are not so hard to use with a little practice. I like to
use them on very visible handspiked track that is adjacent to flex. They
match the flex spike heads quite well. Of course, I only do the visible
side of the rail!
>
> Roger Nulton
>
> From: Christopher Borgmeyer
> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 12:46 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: spikes
>
>
> About a year ago I did a bunch of spiking on the NOSS modules. Started
with the ME micro spikes. They are not so much spikes as simply bent
metal strips. Many/most did not have any kind of point at the end which
made them difficult to insert into sugar pine or bass wood ties. Many,
many, bent on their way in. I don't have enough time to pre-drill holes.
We eventually switched to Walthers Code 87 spikes. Strong, pointy and
easily inserted. Available at the local hobby shop for a reasonable
price. The heads are largish but after you paint and weather the rail
they match-up pretty well to the "spikes" on the Shinohara turnouts and
flex track. They look large compared to the "spikes" on ME/Tomalco flex
track. I would give them the nod for all but the most proto of track
laying.
>
> Chris Borgmeyer
>
I, Pete Silcox, tried making a detailed turnout with tie plates, small
spikes, joint bars, rail braces, bridle bars, and guard rail details.
It has cast frog and switch points from , I don't remember , I had to
increase the flangeways on the frog. I found the same problems spiking
the tie plates. I will have to get some Walthers spikes and try them
too. There are many types of plates in a turnout, I made the slide
plates for under the switch points from the carrier material of the
Tomalco tie plate sheet, glued in place. Also the frog plates were made
the same way. I painted the rail webs and fixtures rusty, and mixed the
switch tie colors to show different ages of them.
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