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SteveC		#1 Posted : 10 October 2020 19:51:01(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 05/03/2013(UTC) Posts: 7 Location: Coconut Creek, Florida		I've inherited a cat, from one of my kids and it is destroying my layout. We will be moving in about a year and my wife has promised me a room for my trains. I want to take the layout completely apart. I plan on building a different layout but it will have some of the features of my existing layout. I have boxes for all the electronics, sets, extra trains and cars but none for the C-track. What should I do before I start taking it apart and how should I store the track? Should I keep wired track, power, contact track, etc. with wires soldered to them? If so, how long? Should I keep the red insulators on the tracks that have them? I got my layout from the Marklin Magazine dated Oct/Nov 2015, " Black Forest in miniature". Any help would be greatly appreciated.


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kiwiAlan		#2 Posted : 11 October 2020 00:35:28(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 23/07/2014(UTC) Posts: 8,107 Location: ENGLAND, Didcot		Originally Posted by: SteveC I've inherited a cat, from one of my kids and it is destroying my layout. We will be moving in about a year and my wife has promised me a room for my trains. I want to take the layout completely apart. I plan on building a different layout but it will have some of the features of my existing layout. I have boxes for all the electronics, sets, extra trains and cars but none for the C-track. What should I do before I start taking it apart and how should I store the track? Should I keep wired track, power, contact track, etc. with wires soldered to them? If so, how long? Should I keep the red insulators on the tracks that have them? I got my layout from the Marklin Magazine dated Oct/Nov 2015, " Black Forest in miniature". Any help would be greatly appreciated. I would put all the red insulators in a zip-lock bag as you take the layout apart. Wires i would just cut at a convenient point as any wire that is currently connected is, by Murphys law, guaranteed to be too short for the new layout. You can then spend some time unsoldering any pigtails of wire of the track at your leisure, or as you build your new layout and want to hook up a new wire. The C track will pack in a suitable sized plastic box with a lid (I prefer the ones with latching handles rather than a lid that just clips on - these always seem to spring open at the most inopportune time). Stacked nicely with all the same items together it will pack down fine. best of luck with your move, and success with your new layout.

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