06-28-2012, 08:32 PM
Terry:
I have a bunch of Peco machines mounted under the Homasote. Some Peco motors came with an extension for the wire. This is a brass tube and another bit of wire. You can use some tube & wire from the LHS. I crimped the tube so that it didn't move much in the direction of throw. I also bent the mounting pins out and fastened the motor with a couple of #8 screws with washer heads. neat trick: drill down just beyond the throw bar on the switch and you have the right place to mount the motor (HO gauge only). You then need only to have frilled a 1/4" (or a bit more) hole right under the hole in the tiebar.
There used to be a kit for mounting the motor. This had a bit of tube that went right under the throwbar and a brass pin that came down from the top.
I have a bunch of Peco machines mounted under the Homasote. Some Peco motors came with an extension for the wire. This is a brass tube and another bit of wire. You can use some tube & wire from the LHS. I crimped the tube so that it didn't move much in the direction of throw. I also bent the mounting pins out and fastened the motor with a couple of #8 screws with washer heads. neat trick: drill down just beyond the throw bar on the switch and you have the right place to mount the motor (HO gauge only). You then need only to have frilled a 1/4" (or a bit more) hole right under the hole in the tiebar.
There used to be a kit for mounting the motor. This had a bit of tube that went right under the throwbar and a brass pin that came down from the top.
David
Moderato ma non troppo
Perth & Exeter Railway Company
Esquesing & Chinguacousy Radial Railway
In model railroading, there are between six and two hundred ways of performing a given task.
Most modellers can get two of them to work.
Moderato ma non troppo
Perth & Exeter Railway Company
Esquesing & Chinguacousy Radial Railway
In model railroading, there are between six and two hundred ways of performing a given task.
Most modellers can get two of them to work.