Okay so basically what happened was i glued my cork down with wood glue and it is all dry but i put it on wrong and I want to take it off without destroying the cork so i dont ahev to buy more any ideas?
Use a putty knife and be careful.
Agreed putty knife is what I used just recently I would say I salvedged 90% of it. Now if this is actual cork from a roll I would wonder how it would do but my roadbed was the precut stuff at the hobby shop. Its a little more forgiving
It might be worth experimenting with a thin fine-toothed saw, something like a drywall saw. I have used a steel spatula to get flextrack up, but I have never tried to recover cork. In any event, you must keep pressure on the leading edge of the device downward to keep from snagging and tearing at the cork above it. This gets hard on the wrist and hands after a while.
There is a reason why most of us put a thin bead of wood glue down to hold the cork down. You can easily use a flat scraper and slowly seperate the cork from the wood. It’s just plain frugal !
I nail, not glue, my cork roadbed. I glued the roadbed on a prior roadbed and it seemed like gluing it reduced the sound deadening qualities.
If you use the spatula method, you MIGHT be able to soften the glue a little by running an old electric iron (old meaning, DO NOT use your wife’s or your mother’s iron!) over the cork but be careful.
Dave Nelson
What about soaking the cork with water? Then use a putty knife.
I stapled my cork down in the past and never had any problems. But anytime I would tear up anything, I would damage the cork and then just replace it with new cork.
On my current layout, I am using latex caulk adhesive to hold down the cork and the track. I haven’t had to rip up any track yet so I can’t tell you what the results would be.
Craig