Wiring Custom-Built Switches

[NW Modeling List]

I agree that using Fast Tracks filing aids and soldering templates
significantly improves the quality of hand-built switches.  My question is
about wiring custom-built switches.  Like many articles I have read, I fill
the frog/closure rail area with solder and then file grooves.  I have been
cutting gaps in both closure rails and just beyond the frog and then
power-routing the frog.  I am concerned that cutting these gaps increases
the possibility of miss-alignment of the rails.  Has anyone had problems
with shorts between stock rails and closure rails using DCC?  Is a slightly
wider gap between the closure and stock rail adequate to prevent a short?

 

Gordon Todd

Omaha, NE

gltodd at cox.net

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