Soldering Feeder Wires To Track

In general soldered track lengths should not exceed 6 feet 2 pieces of flex track.

Soldering feeder wires to track. G day folks a fairly simple how to this week showing my method for soldering wire to rail. Good electrical connections are key to a smooth running model railroad and one way to help achieve this is with feeder wires. Pull excess wire back down. It is easy to figure where the holes should be.

Modelers who lay their own track may flatten and shape the end of a feeder wire to look like a spike head. 2 flattened wire soldered to the outside of the rail to simulate a spike head. Solder the feeder to the track with the wire just to the inside of the track. In this basic training video you ll learn how to attach feeder wires to the rails of model railroad track.

The easiest way is to solder the feeders to the tracks before laying them down. Mark the track so you won t forget where you want to cut the plastic. It won t change the world but it may assist some folk to get a be. Each 6 ft piece should have droppers.

This is just a quick how to video on track soldering and feeder wire soldering. But it they are already layed down what you have describe so far is the way to go. Long soldered lengths will cause problems due to length changes in the rails due to temperature or movement of the benchwork with humidity changes. The feeder wire should come up through a drilled hole from the bottom of the layout to the outside rail between the ties.

Feed the wire through the hole bend the 3 16 tip 45 degrees so you have room to solder solder then bend another 45 degrees for a total of 90.