Is it just me or has atlas really starting to rip us off with this very cheap china made track, if it flexes to much the so called spike heads snap off and you end up with a 3 foot piece of rail that is only good if you are hand laying track. If I wanted to hand lay my rails I would have started my layout that way,due to medical and physical problems that is out of the question.Just wanted to know if anyone else is having the same problem please post a return on here .I think its time we as modelers stand up for ourselves and do something about this problem . I also have about 3 boxes of this code 83 track that has been laid , If i ever build another layout I will not have atlas track on it .
My layout has all Atlas Code 83 on it, the track was purchased 4 years ago and I have not experienced the problems you describe. Perhaps it was a bad batch but at any rate I would return the track to the mercahnt if possible or contact Atlas directly.
My 2 cents
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Perhaps those medical and physical problems you refer to are causing you to exert too much pressure on the rail, because I haven't had that problem with Atlas or Peco code 83 flex track.
I've purchased some in the past few months and haven't noticed anythign different from what bought a couple of years ago to make my previous layout. Some of it I did rip up on purpose since I'm using Atlas code 83 rail for my Fast Tracks turnouts, but the intact pieces seem to flex back and forth the same as always, forming a nice smooth curve without the rails popping off.
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No problems here either. Might be a bad batch.
Springfield PA
I just ordered another box for a hidden staging yard and a double ended yard that needs to be completed one of these days. I have the almost the full gamete on my layout. Micro engineering weathered code 83 for the highly visible areas, Walthers/Shinohora in the engine servicing yard and atlas code 83 every where else I have never had a single problem with any of them.I will say the Micro Engineering isn't the easiest stuff to bend but I have a handle on it now.