Nickle Silver track?

[Anonymous]

Can you Solder nickle silver rail together? If so how??

Toad

[two tone]

Hi Toad I would not recomend it, I think you will cause more damage than you want. have you tried drilling and putting a link wire across your joints?

[J. Daddy]

Toad,

In HO and N its a breeze, however in larger S, O and G its allot tougher, the issue is enough heat to get a good joint requires a larger iron with higher wattage. I have been succesful using a good acid flux, this lowers the temp. required to solder the joint. However you must clean all the acid off of the work piece, otherwise it will begin to corrode your work. Are you soldering feed wires or joining track? This makes a big difference. If you are using any electrical connections use a Rosin type flux. Hope this helps.

[cabbage]

I have soldered PECO Nickel Silver SM-32 track -but it requires a 100Watt "pistol" type soldering iron. Electrical rosin cored 60/40 solder will work for std track bonding -but if you want to join pieces... Then I am afraid it is silver soldering, a torch, and a good low temperture alloy. I use Johnson Mathey "Silver Flo55". "Easi Flo2" is, (in my opinion), just too liquid and drips, (very expensively), off the end of the joint!

regards

ralph

[ttrigg]

Toad:

I have done some n/s soldering of material roughly equivalent to about a code 400 rail in "G". I could only get a structurally sound joint with a fine tip on my oxy-accet welding rig. When using flame you will get things very hot very fast, so make sure that things like plastic ties are removed well back fro the working joint.

[Anonymous]

My hubby builds his own turnouts with Code215 NS rail, solders all that needs to be soldered with a 260W soldering gun and 60/40 solder.

Hope that helps

ER 

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the ideas and will apply them.

Toad