I picked up six unopened #1403 signal bridges. Do these stay together as a snap fit or should they be glued? If glued, is CA ok? Any other recommendations? Thanks.
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In my experience, they'll stay together as long as they don't get bumped. But they're really better glued, I think.
I'll let folks with CA experience speak to that. I've used liquid styrene as for model cars.
The parts are flimsy and the places that join don't have sufficient surface areas to make a good friction fit, so all mine are glued together using airplane glue, or whatever they call it these days. A derailment and collision will send the parts flying all over the ROW. If you plan to install signal heads that have any significant mass at all, you'd be better off gluing. It's not as though they are rare or valuable. I bought a dozen or so of them, used, a few years ago for 5 bucks.
Thank you for your responses.
