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Wobbly Flex Sliders

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Wobbly Flex Sliders
Posted by mcfunkeymonkey on Sunday, March 29, 2009 12:55 AM

The sliding rails on some of my Atlas 80 N-gauge flex track are wobbly.  But others aren't.  Not usually a problem but when I strip some ties away for mounting on a bridge there's even more wobble.

Just wondering if anyone else had the flexi-slidi-wobbles and what'd you do about it?  (I've dropped some CA at a few points and that seems to work but I hear the CA is brittle on rails).  Any suggestions?

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Posted by R. T. POTEET on Sunday, March 29, 2009 1:28 AM

I used Atlas Code 80 on my first N-Scale layout way back when Custer was a cadet; I have used Railcraft/Micro Engineering Code 55 ever since. If this Code 80 had any kind of a wobble I never noticed it and I would probably have ignored it. Maybe this is the reason I was advised many years past to "always put the fixed rail on the outside of a curve!"

From the far, far reaches of the wild, wild west I am: rtpoteet

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