Our modular group (http://www.canadiantoytrains.org/) is having a continuing problem with the insulators on the center rail of the standard gauge loop. We are making handmade ones, but it is a slow process. Does anyone make them in bulk?
The insulators seem to be brittle and cracking. The modules are stored in an unheated garage. The trailer does have an incandescent bulb burning to keep the humidity down.
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Not sure about standard gauge, but in O gauge I've used tooth picks
as insulators. Rude and crude but cheap, quick and it works....
a good quality automotive gasket paper and a guillotine cutter are all you need
Last weekend at our show one of our club members had some
new lionel standard gauge track that was bad. After uncrimping
the rail you could see the burn marks on the rail of the insulators
that were bad. We cut pieces of plastic bottles and replaced all
of them. We ended up fixing 11 pieces of curved track.
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