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….....................................--- Sawmill Turnout Install -- Pt. 4 ---======================================

Finished the hard part of the track laying by the sawmill, the turnouts and crossing. This took a little longer than expected. I already had some of the turnouts built but not tested on the turnout tester. They also all need ties and the ties painted. Also added wiring to power the two short inner rails past the frog and dropped a wire from the frogs so that they could receive the correct polarity from the micro/limit switches on the servo brackets.

Needed to wire a number of the $2 servo controllers so that they can control the limit of the servo throw in both directions, limiting the possibility of over powering the turnouts point rails. Designed a new servo bracket that I love and now will use most everywhere. It mounts in a couple minutes dead center under the hole in the throwbar. One doesn't need to go under the layout to mount it. You can do all the mounting from the side of the layout as long as the reach to the bracket isn't to far. If you do have to go under it is really simple to mount with one Sheetrock screw.

The images should tell the rest of the story....................

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Above I still needed to pull the two curved turnouts back out and add wiring to them and paint the ties.

The remainder of the track to lay here is all ME code 55 flex. That should go pretty fast but then there is a lot of wiring that needs to go in.

Two turnouts to the crossing will be thrown by one switch on the control panel. When thrown for the route to the crossing the micro limit switches on their servo brackets will not only change the turnout's frog polarity but also the polarity of the crossing.

One can save a ton of money building their turnouts and can build ones you just can't buy.

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I'll soon have more info and print file links up on the really easy to use servo brackets above.

To be continued and a link to this whole build ( HERE ).

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