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 Posted - June 21 2013 : 09:22:57 AM
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I have the chance to pick up what the seller says are Tyco steel remote control switches. I have a lot of brass track and some new nickel-silver. I know nickel silver is the current gold standard, but how does steel compare to brass in terms of corrosion and conductivity?
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Posted - June 21 2013 : 12:18:23 PM
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I find that steel is better than brass on conductivity, but keep plaster away if you use plaster on your layout. Plaster really reacts with steel track and corrodes it bad.
I use a couple of Tyco steel track wyes on my mostly nickel-silver layout and I have no problems with them at all.
-Thomas
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Posted - June 21 2013 : 4:36:35 PM
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Steel is definitely better than brass, but it doesn't conduct electricity as well as nickel silver. I have a small amount of steel track on my layout, for my Life-Like dual crossing gate and Switchman and my Tyco operating crossing signal, along with one spur line that uses Power-Loc.
Steel track is still produced and offered by Life-Like, Model Power and Bachmann (but Bachmann's steel E-Z track offerings are more limited compared to their nickel silver offerings!)
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