Track repair.

[stang_crazy]

Just thought id show off a atlas #6 code 83 LH turnout I repaired. It came with a bunch of track i had purchased a while back. Well someone decided to cut it up for some reason.

Well I couldnt let it go to waste. So i got out some rail joiners, the cutting tool, a file, and of course a soldering iron.

heres the end result, the bottom one in the first pic as you can see is the repaired one. The top is a good one.

that is all nothing super hard or anything like that, ive been meaning to do it for quite some time and was sitting here at the desk & figured it make a decent post LOL.

thanks Mike

 

[UP2CSX]

Mike, what exactly did you do? It's hard to tell looking at the repaired switch next to a stock switch. Unless it's an optical illusion, the second and third pictures seem to show the through route rail has quite a gap after the frog and it's slightly misaligned with the frog flangeway.

 

[stang_crazy]

well the area where ya see the gap, it was basicaly cut all the way across. for some unknown reason.

I agree it is kinda hard to tell, the one section that has the gap is only big enough for a piece of paper to slip into. Thats why you can see 4 rail joiners. I need to take care of a few tiny areas with the file but trains go over it nice smooth.

also if its hard to tell the two apart then i did well in my opinion lol.

 

[Rico]

Nice repair job.
It was likely cut shorter to maximize the number of switches in a shorter distance.
I did that on the old layout for the yard ladder... fit two extra tracks in that way.