Natalie Porter

I have done the same using both switches for the frog, the ones I have repaired work great now. and, yes I believe they do come with a lifetime guarantee but sending them back could take a long time and I would really like to make progress.

I have to have done the same using both switches for the frog, the ones I have repaired work great now.

34 minutes ago, RFS said:

I have had over 60 of these for several years and only had a problem with one.  According to Circuitron this problem most commonly happens if ballast from above slips through the tie-bar hole and gets into the mechanism. Even worse if the ballast still has sticky PVA attached.

 

In my case I was only using one of the internal switches so I was able to move the wires over to the other. Don't know why mine failed as I hadn't ballasted recently, and it was a while before I realized that locos occasionally stalling on the point was due to a dead frog. 

I’ve not ballasted yet, I’ve taken the point motors apart now and the issue is obvious, the copper contacts have come lose where they attach to the actuator arm, I’ve araldited them securely back in place, I’m quite certain I’ll have no further issues with them but the fact remains, they shouldn’t have come lose in the first place. I have about 40 of them yet to install, I just hope I don’t have a faulty batch, I will be checking the rest of them prior to installation.

Has anyone had issues with the internal switches on Tortoise point motors, I’ve installed several which have issues with these switches and am wondering if this is a common problem.