riogrande5761 richhotrain riogrande5761 If it's what I'm thinking, the Electrofrog and Unifrog turnouts have a wire so you can energize the frog. If you cut it off, keep that in mind. I think the wire is only on the Unifrog. As long as a couple of inches are retained, the rest can be cut off. Rich I have quite a few Electrofrog turnouts from Peco in code 83 and they all have the wire to electrify the frog rails. I plan to wire them with frog juicers.
richhotrain riogrande5761 If it's what I'm thinking, the Electrofrog and Unifrog turnouts have a wire so you can energize the frog. If you cut it off, keep that in mind. I think the wire is only on the Unifrog. As long as a couple of inches are retained, the rest can be cut off. Rich
riogrande5761 If it's what I'm thinking, the Electrofrog and Unifrog turnouts have a wire so you can energize the frog. If you cut it off, keep that in mind.
If it's what I'm thinking, the Electrofrog and Unifrog turnouts have a wire so you can energize the frog. If you cut it off, keep that in mind.
I think the wire is only on the Unifrog. As long as a couple of inches are retained, the rest can be cut off.
Rich
Alton Junction
Rio Grande. The Action Road - Focus 1977-1983
Thanks for the additional information on the wires.
Sold my little layout before COVID and wasted all that time. My bad!
Have fun,
Richard
cowmanThere's an invisible hump between me and getting started on the benchwork.
I did a bunch of benchwork and then hit the hump, I'm blaming my bad shoulder and worse shoulder replacement. I am back on track after 2 years. Pun intended.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Thank you.
I do cut off the bare wire on my Peco turnouts (Unifrog double slips), but I do leave about a 2 inch tail for resale purposes.
I may use some Peco turnouts on my "Layout in Planning." There are long, uncoated wires coming out of the bottom. If I plan to use Caboose gound throws, should I cut those off close to the bottom, leave a short tail for the next owner to solder to or can I just coil them up and put them under the turnout, not touching each other?
There's an invisible hump between me and getting started on the benchwork. I'm hoping that if I get some other aspects of the layout (like a track plan) visible to me, it will push me over the hump.
Thanks for the thoughts.