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[Paul the Slotcarguy]

Can this be used as pick-up braid?

[MattD]

Paul it can be used for a slot track.    Braid is sold in 3/16 and 1/4 for slot tracks.   How many feet per roll?

[don.siegel]

Yep, as Matt said. It would probably be way too stiff for pickup braid anyway. 

 

What's funny is that Belden was one of the manufacturers of wire used for rewinding motors - I still have a spool or two! 

 

Don 

[Paul Menkens]

The problem with using this for pickup braid is that tinned is very abrasive, much more so then the copper braid sold for this purpose, although I can remember tinned braid being sold, the main raceway I raced at for several years didn't allow its use. All you have to do is look at how quickly your braid wears out on your car, what would happen if the braid on the tracks wore out that fast?

For plastic track it would work fine I guess, as long as the stiffness wasn't a problem, when I was a kid my friends and I made our own braid from co-ax cable shielding, but this was on plastic track with solid metal conductor strips, so the abrasiveness was not a problem.

[Paul the Slotcarguy]

Thanks everyone. I will most likely discard this wire


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[MattD]

Paul it has value.   It is expensive to ship, though.    It can be used by anybody building a new track r repairing an old one.     Braid is not cheap.

[Paul the Slotcarguy]

Anyone want it? Make an offer plus shipping.


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