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 Posted - November 09 2015 : 12:58:40 AM
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[size=4] A friend and I are getting ready to start building a HO scale layout. We are laying the track on Woodland foam roadbed and the road bed on foam siding. We really don't won't to glue the track down because its so messy. We rather nail it to the roadbed and foam siding. We have seen videos of gluing the track down but not nailing it down. I am looking for any suggestions on nailing the track down.
Yardmaster 54
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Posted - November 10 2015 : 08:47:27 AM
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On my layout. I used cork roadbed on a pink styrene base. I used a mixture of white glue and water to glue down the cork , and I attached the track with small track nails which I simply pushed in place. I think it would be the same principle with foam. Since the nails wouldn't go down to the wood table because of the styrene, there aren't any noise issues.
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Posted - November 10 2015 : 11:40:34 AM
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I know this doesn't specifically answer your question - but in my opinion gluing the track down is the best way to go. All glue can be messy I guess... but it does eventually dry.
The exception to this might be if you are planning to make many realignments or changes instead of a permanent plan - but I don't see track nails holding the WS foam to the foam sheets with enough strength to keep it solidly in place. And then you have the track nails holding the track to the WS foam? 
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Posted - November 11 2015 : 07:42:58 AM
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There really are few alternatives to gluing, as nails will not hold the track in the foam at all. No friction to speak of. Only if you use Bachmann EZ track could you get away with not using glue, as that is rather rigid by itself. Well, ok, there ARE some alternatives - hot glue. But it's globby and drys very quick, you won't be able to get it on the bottom of the track pieces fast enough then set them down to "set" the glue, and trying to hot glue through the ties may leave globs between the rails, too. Might can trim it down, might be worth an experiment with some old flex-track or whatever you're using. But to put track on foam, white glue is probably the best material to use. Ok, how about double-sided carpet tape ? It's flexible, sticky on both sides, might be worth a try as well. I don't think it would hold tightly, but it might keep it in place enough for what you want. Again, worth experimenting with.
Jerry in VA
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Posted - November 11 2015 : 09:49:44 AM
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quote:There really are few alternatives to gluing..........
Originally posted by AMC_Gremlin_GTÂ -Â November 11 2015Â :Â 07:42:58 AM
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Jerry, as you went on to describe - there may be a few alternatives but none are very good. Track nails need something rigid and dense like wood to be secure. My first layout used track nails to secure the track to cork roadbed on particle board - but the cork was glued to the board and the track nails penetrated down through the cork to the wood.
Everything was secure, but I didn't like result of nailing track down. Was hard to get just the right force, very easy to drive the nails too far and end up with too much force, which pushed the ties down too far and tended to bring the rails down with it. The other thing is that the nails must be driven perfectly straight down, if they vary they can push to one side or the other enough to affect alignment.
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