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Originally Posted by willbacker45:

Just put my order in with Lou Cross. This is the first time I have had the pleasure of talking to him and I must say what a nice person he is! For someone who is obviously running a quality business he had no problem talking through his products with me, fantastic!


Lou really is a great guy, very helpful and patient....definetly a pleasure to speak with him.

Thanks for all of the replies.  I had a feeling that the acid flux might work better so I went on a hunt for it tonight and came home empty handed.  I went to Radioshack, Harbor freight, and Advanced Auto none of them had it.  Ill try a different RS tomorrow with hopefully better results.  I think that I will try to get at least a 100-watt gun.

 

Dan, that is Lou Cross's code 125 steel rail.  It looks weathered because I weathered it haha.  

Originally Posted by willbacker45:
Originally Posted by AG:

Nice Will,

a question, how do you are going to isolate (cut) the frog?

is already isolated?

Thank you Joe!

Andre.

Andre I just plan on cutting it with my dremel tool and filling the gap with styrene.

You may want to consider a razor saw, as the Dremel tends to cut too big of a gap and is sometimes unruly to control. Just a thought.

Will they have the fibre glass reinforced cut of wheel and then a smaller and thinner cut off wheel, I used the thinner one on mine, and as AG stated if you are going to fill it with styrene you will be fine.  Heck I used the plastic tie off of a loaf of bread, just cut it to a close size and then after the glue set up I just trimmed it and it worked great.  Yeah they are abit thicker but once it's trimmed and painted you can't tell....cheap also..

Originally Posted by Hot Water:
You may want to consider a razor saw, as the Dremel tends to cut too big of a gap and is sometimes unruly to control. Just a thought.

I cut some HO rail gaps with a razor saw and they closed from expansion when the weather warmed up.

 

A larger cutoff wheel in a Dremel will help get a straighter cut, but you may not want to use full RPM with it.

Will I can tell you that since you used a solid point instead of a hinged point, a Tortoise with have problems.  I have removed all of my Tortoise Switch Motors they just will not push the point up against the stock rail like it needs to be.  I am now working on a pull knob through the fascia.  I will share more when I figure out what I am doing with that. 

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