Germany Retail price 4.69 euro (4.69 EUR - 6.20 USD) for pack of 20 but around 4 euro on ebay.

Also Welcome to the forum.

Hello and welcome to this fantastic forum.

The cable shoes are rather standard products, often used by car workshops etc.
I found this German website http://www.kabelschuhe-shop.de/...khuelse-28x05::4684.html

Someone in USA must sell such things as well, I suppose.

I prefer to solder the wires myself.

Hello Svein/Intruder,

I went ahead and got 1000 pieces from the site you quoted for €47.50 EUR including shipping ($64.37).
They took PayPal so I was able to pay right away. That is 6.4 cents each rather than the Marklin price of 27.2 cents each - without shipping!!! Quite a big savings! Thank you for your help as I was at quite a standstill.

Thanks again for your help,
Steve

Steve,

Welcome to the forum, and as you see a great resource and a quick response from Intruder. I faced the same issue and I believe I got more of these from Radio Shack, can't recall the part number.

Just ignore the boys from down under, we get the price. Beware there is someone lurking about who blames America for all that is bad in American English and the definition of a Billion....



r/Thomas

My post wasn't intended to embarrass you, I am sorry.

Sometimes the newcomers misinterpret the humour here, therefore my humble apologies. I actually had to double-check my own maths to make sure I wasn't doing you a dis-service.

Regards

Steve

divide them into 1000

Welcome to the forum,

Laxmann

off topic

I'm the one who asks questions when the answer is impossible to guesss.

What is a holiday layout, do you put a loco or carriage or track onto your fishing hook ?

do pack it into a suitcase ?

Do you ship it overseas ?

do you take it along when site seeing

do you take photos of it when traveling to different towns and cities and tell people I've been there and everywhere.

Do you errect a tent for it ?

When booking into a hotel room do you book an extra room ?

is this when you leave your wife at home and take the kids and pet animals ?

is it when you go on a boring holidays ?

are you part of a youth camp holiday ?

in case it rains or snows ?

and I thought Americans call it a vacation layout ?

have they turned the power off at your home and you tell people you are going on a layout holiday ?

Do you mean it is an exhibition layout and you take it along while on holidays ?

are you using it for transport purposes to get the meat from the tent to the BBQ ?

are you using it as shooting target ?

or are you teaching native animals howe to play with trains ?

I'm sure you've got the right and simple answer for this.

Just curious and my 2 cents x 1000, its just a cheap joke

John

Hi SCWHIPPLE,

Welcome to the forum.
For me, I solder wires directly on them.
That's what I've done everywhere on C-tracks and M-tracks.
And I never had any troubles.
Of course, with C-tracks, you have to take care not to melt the plastic...
Regards
Joël

Tom, you are exactly right. These kiwis make this mistake in rugby, that's why they always win.

Regards Greg

Is this now un-authorised C-track connector?

Who is in charge of the authorised ones? Not me!

Kind of like using an elephant gun to kill a mouse.

Dave Pryor

PS I solder all track connections because i don't like any mechanical connections between the power source and the track. Bad enough are the connections at the CS or the connector boxes.........

John

Very Good. You made me laugh out loud when I read your post!
Glad you asked, though.

Around the holidays -Thanksgiving through the New Year (although many retailers begin in October now!!)- Many people in America put up a display to celebrate the festive spirit of the season. These displays range from a simple train track loop around the Christmas Tree or a few Dicken's houses on the dinning room side board to very large and elaborate displays in malls or firehouses.

This year we put one up. Attached is a picture.

The bottom is an old o-gauge lionel with the larger size christmas village houses. The top level is C-track with a shadow station in the mountain and 4 trains running automatically.








It is designed to be temporary so it would not actually travel well, and packing it up will be a pain.

And as you can see it in fact does have its own room so to speak.

Its holiday of displaying will of course be coming to a quick end very shortly (once I muster up the courage to pack it into its own special suitcases of cardboard naturally).

While not intended to actually teach them how to play with trains, our hope is that the natives (we actually call them children here in America) will be entertained and may persuade the parents to dig out their old trains.

I will have to remember if I sell anything on the forum to list the price in cents!!

Laxman

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Hello Scwhipple,
There is a ETE Chapter up in Lancaster,Pa. At the last meeting I noticed they have a lot of different type of connectors that they use in making their layout. If you need information where they get their supplies let me know. There are a few of us from Maryland that belong to the Keystone Chapter. By the way I always solder my connections. I have had the spade connectors come off before. If you need any info let me know and I will forward you the phone numbers.
Nelson77
Westminster, Maryland

Welcome back Robert
How was the cruise, you made it back in one piece.

Rob

It appears that the exact equivalent part number is the TE connectivity 42067-1. It is available in North America at DigiKey under PN A277745CT-ND.

I am going to get a bunch as I see my self with semi-permanent layouts for the next while. I also work on maintaining other peoples layouts and work on the club layout that we set up 2-4 times a year.

Although soldering is indeed the best way, in my case I like the freedom these little guys give me to maintain stuff and move stuff around. Nothing like switching out a troublesome switch in a couple of minutes during a train show!

I fortunately know a couple of electronics guys who routinely order from Digikey and will tag on this order to save on shipping.

I have some insulated spade connectors that are similar in size but they just barely fit under the track. I have the mating blades and have made adaptors for testing switches and other stuff that is designed to fit in the C-track.

We are blessed to have such a wonderful track system that has all these connections and can hid the wire. I have seen a few carpet bahns with wire everywhere and easily pulled!

Yes I should have given credit where credit is due. Thanks for saving me a lot of work by the way.

I have 28 of connectors similar to the 74995 to goto a good home FOC.
They are Duratech brand and bought from "JayCar Electronics" here in Campbelltown.

I only ask for postage cost, and if postage to Sydney, it'll be nothing.