Post by smokebox on Dec 7, 2006 0:08:27 GMT -5
Hello all ;D
Well it is winter time and this evening while down in the shop staining some ties and bluing some spikes I came up with the following question.
If a real rail spike has a head that measures 1.325" wide and the model spike measures .178" wide then is it a 1" spike or a 1 1/2" spike?
I think the person I got the spikes from mentioned they were 1" but can not remember.
Also, even if they are galvinized they still take gun blue pretty well, I soaked them for 1 min and they are BLACK.
That was Birchwood's gun blue by the way, you can get it at any wal-mart or big K if you want to try it.
Now I just need to figure out how to make alum rail look like steel!!!
I'm sorta thinking of asking the folks that make aluma black if they sell in bulk, ( I wonder how much would be needed to blacken a 10 foot section of rail?
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