01-11-2014, 12:05 PM
Thanks for the tip Reinhard. Luckily for me I have a good friend who lives for these wiring projects, so I am going to turn him loose....I orig in ally had planned to manually throw turnouts, but he talked me into the machines, so all success and failure to "switch" will be on him!
On t he test bench, the challenge for me will be alignment and stability. On a couple of turnouts, I need to go thru 6" of foam. I installed 1/4 diameter plastic straw the give the rod a sleeve to ride thru. I also replaced the .025 wire with heavier .039. The problem so far has been able to secure the turnout to the roadbed without any movement when the turnout is activated. I've got track nails and a very small bit of glue, but it still wants to wiggle slightly when the throw bar moves....any suggestions?
Mike, I think I have the plan where it needs to be. Seems like a lot of features I didn't care about at one time are now getting important...such as hidden staging/interchange track among other things....
On t he test bench, the challenge for me will be alignment and stability. On a couple of turnouts, I need to go thru 6" of foam. I installed 1/4 diameter plastic straw the give the rod a sleeve to ride thru. I also replaced the .025 wire with heavier .039. The problem so far has been able to secure the turnout to the roadbed without any movement when the turnout is activated. I've got track nails and a very small bit of glue, but it still wants to wiggle slightly when the throw bar moves....any suggestions?
Mike, I think I have the plan where it needs to be. Seems like a lot of features I didn't care about at one time are now getting important...such as hidden staging/interchange track among other things....