Ever use a Sears Craftsman staple gun with 9/16 brads to nail you cork roadbed in place?
Works great, fast and simple!
Shoot. You want fast and simple… I use a Dewalt brad nailer (w/ air compressor). Bam bam bam, road bed is down, and it’s removable easily.
More power.
Hum, may give it a try, and all so [#welcome] to the site.
Cuda Ken
Hooked. Cool idea. Have you operated long term doing this? No regrets not gluing or caulking too? Guess the ol’ brad gun would be too much for track laying on plywood as well…eh? What about AFTER ballasting and some time though? No easy removal there, yeah? I could see this being useful for laying cork and track directly on top of paper patterns and leaving the patterns buried though…something I’m considering.
Been using this method for a while now, no regrets, if I want to remove it, or move it over a little I just run a putty knife under the roadbed and raise it up, the brads pull right through, then I can pull the brads and start over.
Not good for perm layouts. I imagine that the staple gun might force the staples too far down and produce pot holes in the road bed…
Personally, I prefer to use PL300.
David B
I’ve used regular staples to hold mine down- once I lay track then ballast you can’t even tell they are there. I’m to impatient to wait for glue 
Um…PL300 is instant. Ballasting requires soaking in water. Water makes staples rust. Rusting staples dont hold onto much…
David B
Actually, we’ve used this method on our modular layout for about ten years now. It works just fine, believe it or not. We pulled track up on one module (one of the FIRST modules we built, mind you) a couple of months ago…the staples were holding so well that it took a lot of force to remove them.
Dimpling isn’t an issue as long as you don’t set the force too high. We usually use a manual stapler, which doesn’t force the staples all the way down into the cork, then gently tap them down with a tack hammer. Like I said, it’s worked just fine for us for ten years. [:)]
David, I used a Bostich brad nailer on my cork on plywood about 8 years ago - it’s still down!![:)]
Nails or staples are fine if you have a plywood base. Since I’m using foam as my base, I’m going to stick with the DAP Acrylic Latex caulk. Holds very well but peels up with a putty knife, if I need it to.
Tom
have to agree with Tom on this one. Using Acrylic caulk instead of brads. Heck the CIOR had just came down and this was with caulk! Easy if ya want to adjust what is already down. Kevin