Progress 'normalising' the diamond crossover.
The first job was to cut away the insulating material in the two frogs, which a disc cutter in the right hands made short work of. Various pieces of NS rail laid upside-down were trialled to fill the gap and create the new frog. These will be filed down to the correct shape in due course.
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| Insulation removed. |
Geoff had worked out that we required one more wire between the boards and the control panel to complete the new switch wiring. Fortunately, the 20-way socket on the board had a single spare pin and with the help of a record drawing/schedule, it was relatively easy to add the wire.
The rewiring of the crossover is to suit the future switching arrangement designed by Geoff. A three position rotary switch on the control panel will enable:
Position 1. Diagonal right-to-left.
Position 2. Middle, straight through running on both front and rear tracks.
Position 3. Diagonal left to right.
