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Hard wiring, <br /> <br />No easy way, just straight down the middle. There are a couple of hassles with this method that are sometimes too much for people to stomach. The most difficult issue is that the points are electrically connected to each other on the throw bar. When your wire each inside rail to the stock rail the points and the frog will short. You can gap in front of the frog to isolate it, but you will need to insulate the point rails from each other. Most people replace the throwbar with a PC board throwbar made by Cloverhouse. You unsolder the points from the old throw bar a re-solder them to the new throw bar with a gap in it. It goes pretty quick but it still is a lot of work. What you are left with is a switch with a dead frog and the points and stock rails hard wired to each other. What I have just described is the definition of the new (slightly miss-named) DCC friendly turnouts. Depending on how many turnouts you need, I would go buy some of those in the size you need and save the time and hassle. <br /> <br />Check Allan Gartner's DCC site for more switch modification info.
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