I use Code 100 Peco Turnouts and Atlas Flex Track and join them together with Atlas Code 100 / 83 Joiners ,and the LHS that i go to is sold out of the Atlas Joiners,he says that Micro Engineering and Bachmann Joiners are like the Atlas ones,so before i buy has anybody used the Micro Engineering and Bachmann Joiners with the Atlas Flex and Peco Turnouts,Thanks.
I use the Micro Engineering rail joiners on a regular basis. The key to using them is to spread t hem slightly, as they are an extremely tight fit on Atlas track. I made a tool from a piece of Atlas code 83 track.
To make the tool, file the track into a point, then bevel the rail flange into a point, as well. I slip the rail joiner onto the end of the tool. Then, holding the tool with a pair of pliers, push it down into a block of wood that has grooves cut into it with a Dremel with a cutoff disk.
Medina,Thanks that sounds great will get some ME joiners.
I don’t know about the Bachmann rail joiners, but the Micro Engineering ones are not at all like the Atlas ones. The atlas joiners are crude and oversize compared to the ME joiners. So much so that I don’t use Atlas rail joiners. Go with ME joiners or Peco ones.
The Atlas code 100/83 joiners are HUGE. I don’t use them for anything besides staging. For anthing but code 55, I normally use the Atlas N scale code 80 joiners. They nearly disappear when used with code 83. They work on Micro Engineering 70 and 83 with no modification, and slide easily onto Atlas 83 and Shinohara/Walthers 83 if I chamfer the rail base slightly with a file.