Micro DPDT Switch Mount 30 pack now available form Keystone Details

[Lemosteam]

The switch mount is a 30 pack sprue of BSF nylon printings that allow a Radio Shack micro DPDT switch to attach directly to the throwbar guides on the Atlas C55 turnouts. This is significantly refined from my earlier design, but the mechanism is still the same.

They can be viewed and purchased here

https://www.shapeways.com/product/3HUJXQUWH/30pk-dpdt-switch-mnt-for-n-scale-atlas-c55-turnout



Instructions can be found here, use image comments:
https://picasaweb.google.com/100384422437956630383/6328513240756484241

Here is a partial install of the mounting of the switch to the turnout:

[ryan_wilkerson]

I'm probably just missing something but how does the radio shack part throw the turnout? It looks you've trimmed off the part of the switch that usually performs that function.

[central.vermont]

I'm with Ryan on that question. Went to your link and it doesn't show how to connect between the slide switch and throw bar. Do you use some kind of wire possibly?

Jon

[Lemosteam]

You are right guys, I haven't shown the phosphor wire that I bend up.  I'm still working on the instructions.

[Lemosteam]

And the completion of the install. Instructions have also been updated.  Comments provide further info.

@central.vermont @ryan_wilkerson

[MichaelWinicki]

Pretty slick!

Wish there was a version for turnouts that had already been installed.

[Lemosteam]

Pretty slick!

Wish there was a version for turnouts that had already been installed.

Thank you!  @MichaelWinicki

This would be a relatively easy install for that I think.  Dig a hole under the throwbar guides deep enough for the switch to fit in.  Drill a hole for the wire to pass down, take the switch/mount/electrical wire assembly (with added hole for wire and feed the electrical wire through the hole.  Snip off the throwbar as shown and drill the small hole in it. Add some gorrila gel super glue to the mount and install it under the throwbar guides and let dry. refill the hole with paste or glue mixed with ballast and push it into the hole and let dry.  Bend the wire, install it as whown and you're done.

Would that not work?

By the way, my pneumatic switch machines can also be added before drilling the hole in the DPDT switch post and the bronze wire will hold it to the post, making a nice finger surface for moving the electrical switch.

[central.vermont]

Very nice  install John. So let me get this straight. The electrical side of this is that you connect the center post wire to the frog and the other ends go to the opposite rails A&B right for power routing.

Jon

[Lemosteam]

Yes, that is correct @central.vermont !