Is there any way to hook your own wires up to a regular piece of Kato Unitrack? I lost my feeder piece. I want to rap wires around the rails, but that will interfere with the wheels.
Since soldering with the plastic roadbed is pretty much out of the question two thoughts come to mind.
One, rather than wrap the wire around the rail, drill a small hole through the web of the rail and twist it tightly under the roadbed. May eventually work loose.
Second would be to take a piece of sectional rail that was the same length and solder feeders to it. Then use some cork roadbed, formed to meet the ends of the Kato sections. Paint the cork the same color as the Kato roadbed. If you use a little ballast on both the Unitrack and cork it shouldn’t show that one piece is different.
Good luck,
If you don’t have a layout set up simply solder wires to the outside edge of the rails. I solder wires to the rails on my EZ-Track all the time and have yet to melt the plastic roadbed.
I f you have a layout then drill holes next to the outside of the rails down through the roadbed and layout surface. Run wires up from underneath and solder them to the outer edge of the rails.
This is one of my favorite soldering video clips. Although it shows how to solder a rail joint, the same technique can be used for soldering feeders.
Thanks guys, just soldered the feeders in, and everything runs great. I pulled out my Kato N scale stuff today for fun and I didn’t feel like waiting till next weekend to buy the feeder track.