My wife brought home 2 pieces of flex track for me. I now have a problem. I thought I would get away from brass and stick to Nic. Silver. I thought the brass gets too dirty too fast. My problem is that one piece is brass (Peco) and the other is silver (Atlas) I love the word Peco and wonder if I should rethink the use of brass flex track. Any ideas??
Just as sugestion…if your not sure about using the brass track on your main line, use it on a siding or staging area. It’s still good track and yes it does need more cleaning, but there are places brass can be used and it does a good job as a siding…Jamie
use that one piece of brass track on a siding to a junk yard or metal recycling center. The rust dripping from gondolas often turns the track (and ties and ballast) a reddish brown that is not unlike the color of brass.
Dave Nelson
Get nickel-silver Peco.
DeaconF; Brass is not a good choice…however, if it’s non-returnable, the piece could be used in a siding.
In the 50’s some modelers used Tincture of Iodine to stain their brass track a rusty color…and there’s a bonus…if you jam your thumb on to a rail joiner, like I often still do, the cut will be already treated !
Regards / Mike
Mike, I believe that is the first use of the word “tincture” I have seen on this forum – congratulations!
Now – who will be the first to use “ointment?”
Dave Nelson
i agree nickel silver is the better product. however the brass could be used on a siding, or for staging track. good luck.
Obviously YOU will, Dave.
Us geezers have really archaic vocabularies, don’t we !
regards / Mike
If you don’t call it tincture of iodine, what do you call it? I used it to weather some couplings a couple of decades ago; wonde where it went?
–David