I am currently tearing out the WS foam roadbed on my layout... (For many reasons) Its comes off pretty easy but I'm left with all the liquid nails glue still stuck to my foam tabletop. I've been using a flat-head screwdriver and putty knife to tediously get it all off, but then I'm left with scrapes, and small chunks coming up with the screwdriver. Thats not too much the problem because I could just smooth it over with some sort spackle. My concern is the time its gonna take me to get it all off. For example, I did a 3 foot long section of parallel track, and it took me about 1 1/2 hours. Have any of you had this problem, and if so what did you do? Am I gonna have to just bite the big one, suck it up and just have at it? Luckily I only have about 15-20 feet of roadbed to pull up. I'll probably move on to pulling my hair out by the time this project is done.
Mike
MPRR wrote: I am currently tearing out the WS foam roadbed on my layout... (For many reasons) Its comes off pretty easy but I'm left with all the liquid nails glue still stuck to my foam tabletop. I've been using a flat-head screwdriver and putty knife to tediously get it all off, but then I'm left with scrapes, and small chunks coming up with the screwdriver. Thats not too much the problem because I could just smooth it over with some sort spackle. My concern is the time its gonna take me to get it all off. For example, I did a 3 foot long section of parallel track, and it took me about 1 1/2 hours. Have any of you had this problem, and if so what did you do? Am I gonna have to just bite the big one, suck it up and just have at it? Luckily I only have about 15-20 feet of roadbed to pull up. I'll probably move on to pulling my hair out by the time this project is done.Mike
Why don't you get a WS tool to melt it off? You can either get the hot knife or the hot wire? Either will work nicely but I suggest you do it in a well ventilated area. THen spackly over it to get a smooth top.
Irv
I used some 40 grit sand paper, but mine was glue to wood. Don't know if that will work with foam??
Yep, you would have been better off to just throw the new, unopened roadbed right in the garbage and save yourself the trouble of the learning curve. I hate that crap!
Mike, get one or two of those small disposable utility knives that have the retractable and snap off blade sections. They cost about a dollar or so. Extend the blade out all the way (about four inches) then use a sawing motion cross-wise to the track between the foam and the glue.
(Elmer)
Elmer.
The above is my opinion, from an active and experienced Model Railroader in N scale and HO since 1961.
(Modeling Freelance, Eastern US, HO scale, in 1962, with NCE DCC for locomotive control and a stand alone LocoNet for block detection and signals.) http://waynes-trains.com/ at home, and N scale at the Club.
This is one reason I use yellow wood glue and not caulk or liquid nails to glue it down on my layout. The leftover from yellow glue is minimal.
Engineer Jeff NS Nut Visit my layout at: http://www.thebinks.com/trains/
I am learning. Does the wood glue stick to pink foam good? Never thought of that. I think I'm going back to cork roadbed. I've had a lot of troubles with the foam roadbed.
MPRR wrote: I am learning. Does the wood glue stick to pink foam good? Never thought of that. I think I'm going back to cork roadbed. I've had a lot of troubles with the foam roadbed. Mike
I haven't tried it on pink foam but I see no reason why it shouldn't. I also use yellow glue to glue the track to the WS foam roadbed. Taking it up is as easy as using a putty knife between the track and the foam.