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Re: Railroad Dilemma
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 26 Feb 1999 02:30:44 GMT
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Simon Robinson writes:
> On this topic, has anyone ever tried cutting a bit out of the metal
> in one of the rails (just on one side) to stop a reversing loop from
> causing a short? I've been wondering about doing that, and wondering
> how difficult it is.
Yes. I have. In fact, I have a reverse loop to reverse loop layout.
Its not hard at all. All you have to do is cut the rails (both of them) in 2
pieces of track for each reversing loop. Then, you have a choice: LEGO or
Radio Shack...
You need 2 DPDT switches. (the technic ones, or from radio shack.)
I think Matt Bates has a discription of how to wire it up on his web page
(under projects)
I can help if you want to do it with RS parts, rather than lego ones (it's a
much cheaper way)
James Powell
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| How have you got this working? I sat down and had a long think about it last night, and played checked out my points with a multimeter to see which circuits get broken when you move the points, and I can see that you need to cut the rail on both (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| On this topic, has anyone ever tried cutting a bit out of the metal in one of the rails (just on one side) to stop a reversing loop from causing a short? I've been wondering about doing that, and wondering how difficult it is. Simon (URL)Track (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains)
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