the MRH Forum

Ultimate turnout control protection Magazine feedback
Reply
MRH Media 2,999 posts MRH MRH Media 2,999 posts
MRH

2014-p99.jpg  Click to read this in landscape orientation …Click to read this in portrait orientation …

Read this issue!


Please post any comments or questions you have here.
Reply 0
Ed Eaglehouse Suncat2000 Active Member 53 posts
Ed Eaglehouse Suncat2000

Great ideas

 

David,

Thanks for sharing your experience with us. I'm just getting started and trying to collect the knowledge and materials I need to try my hand at building a module. Information like this is steps beyond where I'm at now and immensely helpful. You've improved my work already with this article.

It's appreciated!

-- Ed

 

 

 

 
Ed Eaglehouse
Reply 0
Norman46 Regular poster 233 posts
Norman46

Rather than the plastic caps

Which might pop out of the hole at an inopportune moment, I would suggest a thin piece of aluminum fastened to the rear surface of the frame. An excellent free source of such aluminum is old license plates. If you have several toggles in a row as for a yard throat, one strip of metal could hold them all.
Norman Modeling L&N in HO circa 1953 We don't stop playing with trains because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing with trains. Webmaster for http://www.locallocomodelrr.org
Reply 0
Prof_Klyzlr Moderator 7,953 posts
Prof_Klyzlr

Not a prob...

Dear Norman,

Having used a Speedbor to drill the appropriately sized hole,
mounted the pipe-cap from the rear of the fascia material,
and carpeted the "facing the viewer" surface,
the "animated gate" switch on "Brooklyn : 3AM" shows no signs of un-toward movement,

http://www.carendt.com/scrapbook/page87/onshow1.jpg
/> (the blue control to the right of the young boy is a pipe-cap mounted toggle switch,
with a Blue LED mounted towards the top to aid location in dark exhibition spaces...)

and that's over 5 years of continuous service...

Happy Modelling,
Aim to Improve,
Prof Klyzlr

 
Reply 0
Reply