Reproduction UC Track availability?

[cantankrs]

Good luck with your Lloyd Carriers Alastair! And thanks for your educational input to this thread (along with everyone elses input, past and future).

I checked and a little more info on SG CI can be found at Dormer Tools website on pages 10 and 11 of this PDF file. Basically it derives its desirable properties through the alloy composition rather than MCI's necessary heat treatment after casting. Although SG CI can also be heat treated if the resulting properties are required.

The 'white' and 'grey' CI's I've been involved with will all break up if you flog them with a hammer, but are in contrast with MCI and SG which seem to be - as the word says - 'malleable'.

Regards

Alex

[Philliphastings]

A very interesting and timely post, for as I have indicated elsewhere in the forum I have luckily managed to secure a full set of British Track here in Western Australia afterall. This means I no longer have a need to import new track so I ought to step back from the discussion on demand for it.

I will, however be needing a source of track link pins and tapered washers to replace a number of damaged factory pins. If anyone is contemplating manufacture of quality replacement link pins I would be interested of course!

The track i will be using was a 'factory' track, in as much as it was made in a single span with all rivetted pins and no link pins every 21 links as the 'service' track had.

Cheers

Phill