DavidS2

Doh, of course drill bits.... next time You know I was just at that funny age where Proops packs didn’t seem to matter in life, but now, oh boy!

Well the rewound brush spring worked a treat, wound round a piece of 1mm piano wire made a spring slightly too tight to fit around the pin. So a small reverse wind on the piano wire worked a treat. I made two new springs, Being phosphor bronze it doesn’t loose it temper and won’t rust. Actually careful checking revealed two much older points had suffered generally from rust, the points with later ‘square’ connectors were fine. I lost the first original I took off as a pattern, ping it was gone.....so replaced the rusty one, made a replacement for the lost one and have enough left I reckon for two more! Effective use for old wonky brush springs. Il Grifone its a winner! & Ray I have a bag of springs heading my way thank you chaps

Thank you all, David I am a member joined in March I think last year, after watching Ron Dodd on you tube & yes I bought a magnetiser too, very happy with that. Those springs are still available great I’ll have a look through them Ray, I’ve seen a few in the bag for other uses:-) Il Grifone, I like that idea, you could probably get a couple or three from one spring & I’ve a few odd looking ones in the box! Excellent I’ll keep you posted thank you again

I started collecting some more HD 3 rail recently, now having space and perhaps some time to make a ‘proper’ layout. I only had 2 electric points with my original set, so acquired 10 more from that well known auction site. Generally they are in good condition, nothing a good clean won’t make better, that is apart from the tiny springs that hold the point blade over once the motor operates. They have all corroded to some extent and don’t work as intended. Is there a source of replacement, I have searched but not successfully, can anyone point me (sorry) in the right direction.....