Kato Brass/Copper bits?

[CaptOblivious]

I don't know if they're brass or copper or what, but you know those brass rails that Kato uses in just about everything they produce? I want some spares, for a couple of DCC conversions I'm working up. Don't need any particular shape or length or size. Anyone know where I can get something like this (without having to buy an entire locomotive (or interior lighting kit) to get it :D )?

[cteno4]

Captain,

 

i would just get some flat strip copper, like .010 or .020 and cut your own. you can find it around for jewelry and electronics pretty easily

 

http://www.jatayu.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=SHM-020-CU

 

you can get brass sheet stock at most hardware stores and hobby shops as well.

 

cheers

 

jeff

[bill937ca]

K&S Engineering is a common brass supplier. My local store has the merchandise display.

 

http://www.ksmetals.com/index.html

[cteno4]

yep these guys are in most hobby shops and hardware stores. our local true value and ace hardware stores (usually hidden on a low shelf somewhere funny). also most craft stores have some thin sheet brass and copper lurking around and sometimes in larger sheets than the k&n packs (i think are like 4"x6" in size).

 

k&s has a little sampler pack with 010, 020, 030, 040, and 050 brass sheets i almost picked up last week to have around.

 

cheers

 

jeff

[alpineaustralia]

How many do you need mate?

[CaptOblivious]

How many do you need mate?

 

:D Thanks, Mag! That's very generous, but I wonder if it will be easier for me to drive out to the LTS and purchase some brass strips than to worry you with shipping tiny things across the Pacific :P (You might read this response as `Four, I think. They're going to get cut down.'). Just out of curiosity, how is it that you have extras?

 

 

A second but related question now comes to mind. I notice that the trucks, and at lest some of the undercarriages, of Greenmax kits, appear as though you can fit the t-shaped brass bits that Kato uses in their trucks to pickup current from the rails. Is there a source of those t-shaped pickups? I suppose I could just contact Kato directly…