Turnout Control
Before I disappear onto a long skint of night shifts, I thought it a good idea to make some progress while my brain is still operating normally
I have decided to use the standard Tortoise point motor with the Exactoscale adaptor base, then some how find a way of fixing it to the Easitrac points.
So, here is the end result. Nothing spectacular, but simple to reproduce and easy to maintain.
These small tube pass up through the baseboard and the tops sit just below the turnout.
This is a switch blade shown upside down with a .28 PB wire dropper soldered to it. The wire is first soldered along the foot of the rail for extra strength and the bent outwards and under the stock rail of the turnout (this piece will keep the tip of the switch blade the same height as the adjacent fixed rail). Then after the next bend, the long tail piece will thread downwards into the baseboard and into the brass tubes mounted on the exactoscale operating arm below.
It will hopefully make more sense when all is finally fitted to the layout
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