Bob, You can heat the rail with a soldering gun, which will soften the glue as you slide the rail in to gauge. When the rail cools, usually there’s enough glue to hold the rail in place while you spike it down.
Roger Nulton From: coalsmoker2194 Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 6:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Tomalco turnouts I can re-guage and spike them easy enough, I've got the material and experience to do the job, I just need to know what to do to get them apart without hopelessly damaging the ties or bending up the rails. After this, I think I'll look into Fast-trak jigs. Thanks, Bob Davis - In mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com, "Andre Ming" wrote: > > Once a Tomalco switch was tack-spiked in place on the layout, I took a three > point gauge and regauged/respiked the entire switch. I also cleaned-up any > areas with a file that needed touch-up. > > Andre Ming > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: coalsmoker2194 > To: mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com > Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 7:56 PM > Subject: {S-Scale List} Tomalco turnouts > > > I recieved some tomalco turnouts yesterday, and (no surprise from reading > post's here) they were out of guage. Not a little bit, they were way out. My > question is, what do you do to soften/remove the glue holding the rail, to > fix them? > > Bob Davis >
