Peco flex-track

stary

New Member
Does anyone make ties for this? I cut a tie off the end of a length of it; and it fell in the trash. Needless to say; it's lost.
If noone makes them; no biggie. I'll just use a piece of styrene or cut a tie off of a piece of my Atlas track.
 

Boilerman

Member
Peco use to offer replacement ties for areas of joining flex track (when one removed the ties) these had a recess for the rail joiner to clear so that you did not end up with a high spot at the joiner area.
 

woodone

Member
Does anyone make ties for this? I cut a tie off the end of a length of it; and it fell in the trash. Needless to say; it's lost.
If noone makes them; no biggie. I'll just use a piece of styrene or cut a tie off of a piece of my Atlas track.
I always save the ties from my flex track, when I cut them to lenght.
Have a large stash of them in my track scrap box.
 

tillsbury

Member
If you buy the Peco rail joiners, some of the packs have a stack of replacement ties in them. Some packs don't, at the same price. I ransack my LHS for the joiner packs with replacement ties in them when I see them :))

Charles
 

60103

Pooh Bah
You can compensate for the lost tie by spacing the others out a bit - sometimes just a little stretching will do or you can cut the strip that joins the ties together and pull the strips very slightly apart.
If you do enough flexing and cutting, you will end up piles of extra ties. The ties at the end will need a bit of whittling anyway to clear the rail joiner and a small bit of wood or plastic can substitute.
 

stary

New Member
You can compensate for the lost tie by spacing the others out a bit - sometimes just a little stretching will do or you can cut the strip that joins the ties together and pull the strips very slightly apart.
If you do enough flexing and cutting, you will end up piles of extra ties. The ties at the end will need a bit of whittling anyway to clear the rail joiner and a small bit of wood or plastic can substitute.

thanx for the tip; maybe I'll do that; since I'm modeling the 60s.
 

RobertInOntario

Active Member
I always save the ties from my flex track, when I cut them to lenght.
Have a large stash of them in my track scrap box.

Same with me. I've got a collection of them in my container that I use for tools and extra parts, such as old couplers, wheels sets & discarded Peco ties, etc. I probably could mail you a batch but I'd expect that there are model railroaders or LHS's closer to you that could help?

Rob
 
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