stephenpotter

Good morning, some advice please on a subject that has been discussed many times but for which I am presently unable to find an answer to suit my problem! I've just started to lay track on a fiddle yard/sector plate as a first stage in a long planned for layout. The yard is 18mm chipboard on 69mm x 18mm framing with all over 5mm cork fixed with pva bonding, not pva adhesive. C & L track laid placed on the cork gives very quiet running but as soon as the track is fixed the increase in sound level is very noticeable. I've experimented with fixing the track with decorator's caulk and copydex with no difference in sound levels apparent. I've also glued foam on a test piece of 18mm mdf and then glued track to that, still very noisy! Best result found by using double sided tape to fix track to cork which gives very quiet running however I foresee problems in laying track to the tape when trying to follow curves and see from this forum that the tape can lose its grip after a while. If the track is ballasted after using the tape, both for cosmetic reasons and to ensure it stays in place, does anyone know if the ballasting will increase noise levels. On the other hand am I expecting too much? Does everyone accept noisy running ? Any advice would be very welcome.