Layout maintenance

Found out something interesting today. A while ago I wanted to try UV activated epoxy. I’ve got some in my mouth and it seems to want to stay there so I figured it might be handy. I ordered the cheapest thing I could find on eBay coming from China and waited for it to arrive. When it did I tried dripping some on a part and then shining the light from the associated UV flashlight that came with the liquid epoxy. The epoxy took its time getting a skin on and I finished it off on the back porch railing.

What's on Your Workbench - February 2021

Mon, 2021-02-01 04:49 — Eric H.

Here we are in February! Thank you all for sharing lots of interesting projects over the last few months. Let's keep the shares rolling with the latest from your workbench and layout!.

Eric

Eric Hansmann
Contributing Editor, Model Railroad Hobbyist

Follow along with my railroad modeling:
http://designbuildop.hansmanns.org/

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"Enterprise-Level" Model Railroading

Thu, 2021-01-28 03:12 — fmilhaupt

I've created this topic to move conversation on "enterprise-level" model railroading out of bobmorning's thread on the UWT-50 throttle, which a number of us have effectively hijacked.

Switch issues after ballasting - HELP

Mon, 2021-01-25 11:54 — gillergee

Layout maintenance

I recently ballasted some switches for the first time. I have made certain to clean all guard rails and frogs of any ballast and cleaned the track. Locomotives that passed through the switches without an issue before ballasting now hang up or loose power at the frogs. I tried three different locos with the same results.

I am using Atlas Customer Line Code 100 switches.

Does anyone have any suggestions. Thanks in advance

Workbench Weekend

Tue, 2021-01-19 11:10 — arinella

It's a "workbench" in function only, yeah. But over one weekend earlier this winter, I was able to set up a permanent, organized workspace that was not a) my computer desk or b) the floor, since one of these options was detrimental to my actual job-related productivity, and the other was detrimental to my increasingly-decrepit body (being a hockey goalie does not make you feel younger, believe me).