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Hi Kris, I never done this before on Super O track. But, because it's an interesting question I'm chiming in not because I have something solid to say about it, but because hopefully someone in the know will.

That said, the center rail is copper so that is not a problem. If it's brass try soldering to the bottom of a joining clip.  And if I remember right the outside rails are tubular so they would not be a soldering problem as well. 

Play with it and let us know.

You can get ground from bottom of track without soldering. The metal connects both ground rails.  Or are you trying to solder the joints.. Which i would not due. Cause you will ruin the track. Easy to soldet copper clips. I used them for power on insulated rail. O gauge track.

If you want to make sure you have good contact between sections. Jumper them.

And i have used HO. Rail connectors for center rail power clips.  Those can be soldered too.

 

GG1Man,

I'm not complaining.

  Just trying help you out here.

You need to do a better Soldering  Job.

Try using some Soldering flex.

It will let the Solder run smoothie and make better connection without a lot of heat.

Because down the road your going to run in to problem with hot spots and may course to

spark to your electronics in the engines . 

Your picture shows a every pour soldering job.

It wasn't a very  good soldering connection.

Good luck, John

John DeAlto posted:

 

GG1Man,

I'm not complaining.

  Just trying help you out here.

You need to do a better Soldering  Job.

Try using some Soldering flex.

It will let the Solder run smoothie and make better connection without a lot of heat.

Because down the road your going to run in to problem with hot spots and may course to

spark to your electronics in the engines . 

Your picture shows a every pour soldering job.

It wasn't a very  good soldering connection.

Good luck, John

Thanks for the tip John but that was not my soldering work. I was the first to post on the topic and was only guessing about how to solder Super -O.

If you read Daniel's post, who did do the job he was only slapping it together to see if it works. I was commenting on my original guess in the first post.

Oh yea, I have been soldering for over fifty years and I think Daniel is not far behind me.

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