[Robert Stokes]

Does anyone think that peco points would look better if the plastic check rails were cut off and replaced with a piece of real rail suitably bent? Has anyone done this?

 

[Robert Stokes]

QUOTE (34C @ 3 Sep 2007, 08:53) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Regarding a motor, the Fulgurex product is most satisfactory. It delivers slow action with reliable switching, and has a reasonably low profile for underboard installation; helpful when there are tracks on different levels which must go underneath. Its' best feature is surprisingly little advertised: since it is double ended it can drive a pair of points (typically when arranged in crossover formation), and has enough switching capacity installed to handle this, (and space for more contacts to be added, though I have not yet used this feature).

Thank you for your comments. I am interested in the last writer's idea as most of the points on my new layout will be arranged as crossovers. Could 34C please give me a bit more detail about how this is done?

 

[Robert Stokes]

What about conrad point motors? I have seen these advertised on the internet at just £4 a time if you buy 10 at one go. Has anyone used these? How do they compare to fulgurex and tortoise for reliability and noise? I haven't bought any yet but the price is very tempting.

 

[Robert Stokes]

I have resurrected this thread from a couple of months ago because of something I saw two days ago. You may remember that I started the thread by asking whether peco points would be improved by replacing the plastic checkrails with metal ones.

Two days ago I was at Doncaster station waiting for my wife to arrive. Whilst waiting I was looking around at anything of interest including the track. Now there is a crossover right next to the middle of platform 3. (It is because platform 3 is divided into two, 3a and 3b, with a crossover between them so that it can act as two short platforms.) I suddenly realised that, although I was only about 20 yards away, I could hardly see the checkrails because they were so dark that they merged with the sleepers below.

So perhaps peco have got this detail of the point correct by making it of dark plastic.