QUOTE: Originally posted by cmrproducts PLW the MRR Myth Busters – #5 - The Myth is: You have to remove several ties at each end of flex track to install the track jointers! No you Don’t.
QUOTE: This Myth was started because the person thought that they could save some time. It was a lazy way of installing the jointers as they were used to the old sectional track having the ties recessed for the jointers.
QUOTE: You do not have to remove any ties when putting on the rail jointer.
QUOTE: Just use a knife to cut the little plastic tabs off that clamps the tie to the rail. I then pu***he tie down a little and slide on the metal jointer between the ties and the rail. Then I solder the joint and as the heat dissipates into the rail the plastic tie softens up a little and it will let the metal jointer settle down into the tie ever so slightly.
QUOTE: The one thing I hate is going back and trying to put the ties back in after I am done.
QUOTE: >>>All of these techniques have been proven on a HO scale home layout with over 15 scale miles of mainline track and has over 2800 feet of track (42 scale miles) total in place, so far. The layout hosts bi-weekly Operations and yearly OPTUD’s (OP Till U Drop) 12 hour sessions and has had up to 40 operators at some of these sessions. The layout runs Digitrax DCC Radio. All of these so called MRR Myths have been Busted as this layout has been in operation for over 5 years and we have proven these over and over again.<<< BOB H - Clarion, PA
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Modeling the NKP's Peoria Division, circa 1943
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
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QUOTE: Originally posted by cmrproducts This is the problem everyone just assumes they know the only way to do something and then when someone calls everyone on it they suddenly state that the new idea is wrong.
QUOTE: I am not trying to impose my ideas on the veterans on this forum but am trying to throw out these ideas to the NuBe’s.
QUOTE: The veterans are stuck in their ways and will never change no matter how much I can show them a different and maybe a better way. And anyone that argues with the last statement just proves my point!
QUOTE: Oh by the way, I also have done computer repair for quite a number of years, so I know my way around a circuit board. Even spend some time engineering and manufacturing PC boards.
QUOTE: Originally posted by orsonroy To NOT remove the ties is lazy, sloppy, and quick, and can lead to hours of fun tracking down derailments.....That's nice, and you're entitled to your opinions, but at least in this case, your're dead wrong. Hobby conventional wisdom, tested over thousands of REAL miles of tens of thousands of modeler's layouts, over a period of 40+ years prove that in virtually ALL cases, it's best to remove end ties when using flextrack.
QUOTE: Originally posted by cmrproducts MAbruce Maybe I could have used a less demanding title but one thing for sure there have been hundreds at least looked at the proposals. Something that probably not have happened had I just stated I have done this or that a different way. Sometimes one has to poke the bee hive to get some attention, but there is always a consequence as you may just get stung! And I knew this going in! BOB H – Clarion, PA
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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