I Just finished painting all the track on my layout and am now about to start ballasting the track. I just want to make sure that the correct mixture of glue and water is about 50% glue, 50% water and a few drops of detergent. If anyone could tell me this is right, that would be great.
That will certainly work. Let us know how it goes.
george
thanks, will do
I have recently started using White glue and Rubbing Alcohol in a 50/50 mix. It seams to work well. If you have any trouble with the mix still beading up just mist some alcohol over it first to wet it, Also the cheep white rain hair spray works well as a wetting agent. After you wet the ballest with the hair spray you can use the Glue/water mix then. Which ever you choose works, just remember the hair spray stinks! up the train room.
You will need to presoak the ballast I recomend alcohol through loose woove material. The material will disperse the alcohol without disturbing the ballast. When ballast is wet then pickup cloth and dribble the glue mix on the ballast.
I have found that the pump sprayers that hair spray comes in make the best presoak sprayers. They have the most uniform and finest mist. The cheap trigger sprayers sold at the discount stores tend to have uneven sprays, disturbing the ballast.
My method, as mentioned here before, is to use a very dilute matte medium/alcohol mixture, like 1 part mm to 16 parts alcohol. I can apply that directly to dry ballast (no prewetting required!!) and the results are superb. You might be able to do the same with ordinary white glue.
george
thats pretty much the way i do it