HO/OO Scale Ballast Fixer

Ballast Gluer (Fixer) for HO/OO Tracks

Ballast gluer is an innovative tool from Proses Workshops to glue track ballast with ease and quick.

1/6 turn of the knob will let flows of glue through 3 pipes in line and only on ballsat, not on rails.

Hence you don't need to clean rails after gluing process.

Detailed informations:

Ballasted track is much more realistic than track that is merely fixed to the baseboard of your model railway layout. However, the task of ballasting the track is one that generally causes trepidation into the hearts of most railway modellers. This is because the task is seen as a tedious, messy and never-ending process.

First, you have to put down the ballast and then you have to fix the ballast in place (very important to prevent it from getting into locomotive mechanism and point blades). Well, thanks to this clever device from Proses, fixing the ballast in place can be a much more pleasant task.

The device is a rectangular container with a hopper-like interior that has three exit holes at the bottom. Also on the bottom edges are two cutouts. The holes and cutouts are spaced to align with your OO/HO gauge track. Using the device is simplicity itself.

Place the unit on your straight or curved track so that the rails are in the cutouts, fill with your preferred ballast glue (Noch 61134 ballast Glue, Woodland Scenics WS191 Scenic cement or dilute PVA glue are ideal) using the supplied syringe, and slide the device along the track slowly as you turn the wheel on the top of the device.

Each 1/6 turn of the wheel will dispense small amounts of glue exactly where you need it whilst at the same time leaving NONE on the rail heads. It is recommended that before use, the ballast to be fixed is dampened with a spray of water that contains a couple of drops of washing up liquid. It is also worth checking that the device will slide easily along the track section being worked on before starting.

It works on straight and curved track, so unless you have pointwork that resembles the station throat at Newcastle, the majority of your track can be very quickly ballasted.

This is even truer if you also use the Proses PROBS-HO-01 Ballast Spreader to lay the ballast. Sounds too good to be true? Then have a look at this video: