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Morning all,

Need some ideas what to use to re-glue tracks back to sleepers on Teco tracks. Tried superglue as an experiment but didn’t seem to want to bite into the plastic or stick to the track for that matter. Thinking epoxy maybe. I would use Gorilla glue but it tends to foam out everywhere.

Any ideas appreciated.

Dirk.

The only way I can think of ( although there may be other ways ) is that once the sleepers start to break away, if none of the usual glues work then the gorilla glue sounds like a good bet, however, having said that, the 2nd way that I started using when my track pieces started to fall apart is to fully replace the failed sleepers with single sided copperclad board which I gap to prevent shorting the power.

The handy thing with this process ( unless an entire track piece fails ) is that as the sleepers break off and are replaced by the copperclad replacements, the rails will maintain the track gauge. The only downside to this process is that if enough of the sleepers break off at the end of the track piece, the rails might curl inwards and then the only way to repair the track piece is by connecting another piece to the failed area and using the neighbouring track piece to maintain the gauge of the rails.

I found that when repairing track pieces with the process just described, coupling the failed piece to a neighbouring piece has helped immensely with maintaining the gauge of the rails and fortunately, derailments ( if any ) have been very few and far between.

Hope this helps.

Thanks 508035 for the reply. Never thought of the PCB I should have as I use it for joins. I'm a fan of Goriila so might give it a shot using way less than I usually do. Thanks again for the input.

Dirk

No problem at all.

What is Teco track? In my opinion if the rails have come away from the sleepers then replace that section of track. Glueing will fail eventually.

Walkingthedog wrote: ↑Tue Dec 10, 2024 4:24 pm What is Teco track? In my opinion if the rails have come away from the sleepers then replace that section of track. Glueing will fail eventually.

I agree Brian, new track section is the way, not glueing.

The track is the most important part of your railway.

Thanks everyone for the ideas.

Dirk