Sunday, July 19, 2020

A Set Back and Trains Roll

Sorry I didn’t get a blog posted last week.

The events of the week before, a lose neutral on the electric company side of the meter to our house, caused a lot of stress. We lost several surge protector power bars, a transformer on the furnace and a transformer to our alarm system. With the resolution of the power issue, life returned to the new normal and with the stress relieved my diverticulitis acted up and as a result I spent Friday before last and that weekend with a fever and pain in my gut. Not to worry, my wife insisted that I get tested for COVID and as expected the test came back negative.

That week, I did manage to install all five turnouts frog switches and their point pulls. I chose to go with crank type throw. This allowed me to have all the turnouts aligned to the straight route with the nobs pushed in and the diverging route when the nobs are pulled out.

Here are the parts that make up the switch and pulls. The green parts are 3D printed by a friend of mine.
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This is a DPDT slide switch that flush mounts. Another friend of mine directed me too.
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The assembled switch.
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Under the layout the assembly looks like this.
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A crank and sleeve ready to be installed. Once the sleeve is installed the crank in installed then bent and connected to the slide switch.
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Installing the sleeve. A drop of Superglue as the sleeve is pushed in to hold the sleeve in place.
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Installed Top
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And Bottom all wired and installed.
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So that was the end of last week.

This past week I completed the main line and installed east Sugarwood Siding turnout.
mainline.jpg

Trains Roll

Next step is to complete Sugarwood Siding and added Olie’s Cold Storage and McFoods sidings, then finish the yard track and on to scenery.
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Until next week.

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  1. Darian dan

    Thursday, November 25, 2021 - 11:22:39

    Next step is to complete Sugarwood Siding and added Olie’s Cold Storage and McFoods sidings, then finish the yard track and on to scenery.

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