1Drummer - Oh am I glad to hear from you. To anyone who is reading this reply to his reply, I do not wish to cast dispersions on anyone's loyalties to any certain product, manufacturer, or ideology, if there is such a thing, to Model Trains and how they work or should work. I also don't wish to get off of the subject of this thread. It's about wire gauge and I did throw in my two cents minus taxes worth. But that line about the companies not taking into consideration what the customers need, Amen.
You'd think if 14 gauge wire were better for the industry, the track would be designed to take 14 gauge wire. A hole with a screw, a screw you can hook the wire under, a hole with a piece that crimps down on the wire after it has been painstakingly slid beneath it, like the switch tracks, and the AIU ports. Terminal track pieces with special connection ports for those who wish to use larger wire. Connection ports that can be attached to an existing straight piece that will accept larger gauge wires. Having to solder wire to the track, come up with homemade remedies, and in some cases, as I have found since I got into this hobby, live with issues created by the manufacture of the product that I am discovering are not important and will never be corrected, "speaks to the poor concern manufacturers have for customers."
Now, back to the jist of this thread. Would it be possible to shrink tube the bare wire to the acceptable connector if I can't quite get all of it into the tiny connection prongs provided for the correct size connector that I have to use to slide it onto the connection point provided by Lionel?
