Modelling stub switches

Posted by Jeff Young on May 28, 2015; 6:00pm
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Modelling-stub-switches-tp2408.html

I'm a couple of weeks away from having some splined subroadbed done, and was doing some research on hand-laid stub switches.  There seems a bit less on-line than for split-point switches.

Anyway, I had some ideas for a "new" method:

Basically, the idea would be to have the heel rails end on the middle of a PC-board tie, solder the track to some track joiners, and the track joiners to the tie.  The track joiners would be cut/filed/dressed so that the side toward the moving rails would have their inside walls removed, leaving only the bottom and outside walls.  They would therefore mimic the plates found on the prototype, and serve as limits to the travel of the throw.

The throw bar would then be a solid brass rod, encased in black shrink-wrap.  Short brass tubes would then be glued to the outside of the shrink wrap, and track joiners soldered to them.  These would (in theory) keep the moving rails in gauge, and look much more like the prototype.

Insane, or perhaps workable?

Thanks,
Jeff.