Author Topic: Does Anybody Make a "Working" N Scale Switchstand?  (Read 8330 times)

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btrain

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Re: Does Anybody Make a "Working" N Scale Switchstand?
« Reply #60 on: February 26, 2018, 08:52:21 PM »
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I don't know if this will help or not, but here's a photo of the Alkem switchstand kit. They said with some fiddling they can be made functional with 0.010 wire.

https://flic.kr/p/F4uRXM

Maletrain

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Re: Does Anybody Make a "Working" N Scale Switchstand?
« Reply #61 on: February 26, 2018, 10:22:47 PM »
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I don't see those on the Alkem site in N scale, now, even under "discontinued".  So, I assume they are gone.  Of course somebody else could etch the same thing.  But, I think it is the "little fiddling with 0.010" wire"to make it functional that we are really talking about here, anyway.

The targets look like a good thing to etch, even if nothing else is, because it is hard to make something that thin that can be assembled as 2 planes crossing on a 90° angle.  Still, mounting that assembly on that 0.010" wire might be somewhat tricky, unless it goes up along one of the 90° corners and we don't look at it from that side.