The white thing in the foreground, the thing to switch a point, whatsitcalled in English? I'd like to get some of these but I really don't know how they're called.
How to switch a point...?
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The white thing in the foreground, the thing to switch a point, whatsitcalled in English? I'd like to get some of these but I really don't know how they're called.
Point levers.
Peco do them for G scale. I have some, but I prefer the LGB ones for ease of use....
http://www.peco-uk.com/product.asp?strParents=3309&CAT_ID=3335&P_ID=17636
Peco do them for G scale. I have some, but I prefer the LGB ones for ease of use....
http://www.peco-uk.com/product.asp?strParents=3309&CAT_ID=3335&P_ID=17636
Point Lever in English, as Gizzy says - or "Weichenhebel" in German!
For point levers just like the one in your photo, Henri, look here....
http://www.modell-werkstatt.de/weichen-45mm?pagenumber=2
Am I right in thinking the Americans call them Switch levers?
Jon.
For point levers just like the one in your photo, Henri, look here....
http://www.modell-werkstatt.de/weichen-45mm?pagenumber=2
Am I right in thinking the Americans call them Switch levers?
Jon.
But the disadvantage I believe is that a train approaching against the points can no longer push through but must either stop or derail when it hits the point.
How I remember the latter with my mid-1950s Hornby OO layout!
How I remember the latter with my mid-1950s Hornby OO layout!
Yes, that's the point
I'm not actually a lover of pushing through against the blade direction - it works with LGB flanges, but doesn't work so well with some finer flanges
Anyway, forget the point lever, can you give us some more details on the tram Henri?
I seem to remember that the travel on the Peco one was a bit marginal for the chunkier makes of track - Like LGB, Piko, Aristo etc.
Can anyone expand on this.
Can anyone expand on this.
Yes, the Peco lever does not have enough travel for Aristo / LGB / USAT point blades - don't ask me how I know
The point throw that I have on my USAT point was made by a US firm, but uses a Tenmille operating lever, which has an adjuster screw. The only bit that the US firm made was the sleeper extension / connection pieces, so the actual lever went from Eastern UK, to USA to have the sleeper bits fitted, and then came back to me (in Sussex at the time)
http://www.tenmille.com/16mmNGPointAccessories.html
The Peco ones are not only chunky, only have enough travel for Peco G Points and are somewhat weak in the vital area's.
10mm ones are pretty robust but we found their throw inadequate for Peco G so will be pretty useless for LGB.
It would be possible with a little bit of Ally Angle Strip and some old Flat Bottom Rail to make some nice looking Levers, there may also be manufacturers in Germany that supply what Henri is looking for. Perhaps an enquiry to Grootspur may help.
JonD
10mm ones are pretty robust but we found their throw inadequate for Peco G so will be pretty useless for LGB.
It would be possible with a little bit of Ally Angle Strip and some old Flat Bottom Rail to make some nice looking Levers, there may also be manufacturers in Germany that supply what Henri is looking for. Perhaps an enquiry to Grootspur may help.
JonD
IF Bertram Hayn (sp?) is going to be at Llanfair..
It may well be worth looking what he has got on his stand??
It may well be worth looking what he has got on his stand??
It's Heyn, Phil, and he's definitely going to be there - he's (hopefully!) bringing quite a decent-sized pre-order for me - including two circles of his Radius-0 track, one with regular sleepers and one with the random Feldbahn style sleepers....
Jon.
I've been looking for some like that too. I believe they're called Ground Throws in the USA.
None of the ones I've seen are 'chunky' enough to represent the ones I used to see on the Slough Trading Estate Railway as a kid, which is what I'd like to replicate.
None of the ones I've seen are 'chunky' enough to represent the ones I used to see on the Slough Trading Estate Railway as a kid, which is what I'd like to replicate.
That's sadly true.Sadly, there's no railway there now
Luckily the last two locos still exist. An we all have our memories!
Visited the Slough Estates Railway well before Steam Finished, did a short Movie that is still waiting to be digitised. Now I must scan some of the Pics I took to see if any of the Point Levers appear and to see just how big they really were.
JonD
I recall some scattered ones around the system, but there were a bunch around the old Station. The ones near the engine shed were quite spindly.