So, in a jam last night gluing to down the cork on my main line, I needed something heavy to hold it. Looking around my apartment, I was drawing a blank, when… I spotted…my rail spikes from various trips with my son and a piece of track. I admit, I got a good giggle and thought you would too.
Well Mr Lion, I do believe your coil trumps my 3 spikes and section of track. [bow]
All though, my sliver of track is from the Alaska Rail Road but a coil… Hmm… I bet there is a good story there.
Using the spikes for holding the cork in place did give me a good giggle also.
Even though I have a one foot and a one and half foot section of track (make great anvils) lots of spikes and even a few tie plates, I have never seen a truck coil.
Very cool, Lion.
Very cool guys, neat stuff!
I borrowed one my Dad’s rail sections, this one is 132LB, & he also has a 2 foot peice of 54LB, but the 132LB worked better for this photo.
Been there. Coke tins, leftover pieces of 1X2 on the tracks with a 16 oz. glue bottle for weight, heavy side-cutters, vice-grips, rolls of solder (yup, they can be heavy!), metal-bodied utility knife with full mag of new blades inside for extra weight, and I even use bricks. I even use the removed rechargable battery bases of my impact drivers which have a nice bottom so that the tools can stand erect. Lessee…railroad spikes, the points rails and frog points filing blocks that come from Fast Tracks (them suckers’re heavy, and do a great job in a concentrated footprint if stood up on an end. You can even stack two for a powerful hold-down). How about that 4’ metal framing level on tangents? Place it, and then stack full tubes of caulk adhesive along its length. Four or five should do nicely.
Crandell