musicancars

nick is correct in using the di-eletric grease. i used a small wire brush to clean up every joint before assembling my lgb track as some of my track was also verry carroded. this was after drilling out and threading about 50 pieces of section track. i decided to order fractional size stainless allen scews in 2-56 threads per inch from mc master - carr in dayton nj ( since LGB is what i had to work with. i also drilled through the lgb connectors since locally there was a sudden a shortage of aristrocraft connectors) then i used the "di-electric" conductive greese on EVERY joint. i assembled it all back in sept.- oct. of last year (2014) and after our harsh nj winter i ran trains last week with no problem. ( after cleaning the track LOL) i found i also needed to use some of the grease on the frog connections on my turnout . just where the rails touched when swiched, as sometimes the engines would stall at the turnout on the main line.