Plug & Play!
Entry posted by Dukedog
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Being the clumsy person that I am, i was getting a bit fed up of catching and damaging the ground disc signals on Pen Y Bont every time I cleaned the track.
After replacing the Ratio plastic ones several times I was getting a bit tired of buying and making up new ones. So when I came across some white metal ones made by Detail Matters.I jumped in and bought a pair.
They come ready painted so that was another fiddly job saved. However, they were still vulnerable to accidental damage.
Then I came up with this idea.
I drilled a hole right through the base board and fixed in to it a short length of brass tube with a bore that just takes the spigot on the base of the signal.
I can now remove the signals for track cleaning and layout transporting without fear of damage,
The Yard crane suffered from the same problem.
When I built the brass replacement I made that "Plug in" as well. Again it can be removed when transporting the layout or doing any work that could cause me to accidentally bash it!
I also did the same thing with the loading gauge (not pictured)
Now I can work on the layout without fear of causing myself a load of work I hadn't bargained for.
Cheers for now
Frank
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