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Re: Remote Points
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lugnet.trains
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Sat, 4 Mar 2000 05:48:39 GMT
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lpieniazek@novera.{nospam}com
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Mike Poindexter wrote:
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> I have seen numerous ideas for remote operating switches (points) and they
> all look like they try to tackle the problem from the same place, the top.
I believe some of the earliest work on remote points advocates opening
up the bottom, but merely to loosen up the mechanism. (file down the
bumps, as you say)....
Your idea of actually leaving the cover off and then working the switch
from underneath is interesting... to the non purist. But hey, I read the
DCC stuff with intense interest, if TLC doesn't lead me to beleive
they're thinking seriously about it, my purity level may be slipping
soon.
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| I seleniod switch, and DCC are very interesting ideas. They are unpure, I guess, but it is not like you are painting or cutting bricks. I have two motorized points, and at $25 (estimate on motor and parts) each a nonLEGO solution, especially if it (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| I have seen numerous ideas for remote operating switches (points) and they all look like they try to tackle the problem from the same place, the top. Why wouldn't it be possible to crack open the bottom of the switch, file down the bumps on the (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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