Yes, depending on the brand of turnout and the connection on the throwbar, you substitute one of those other ends.
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Do the arms on the sprue replace the arm shown attached to the throwbar?
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
yellow_cadDo you believe this to be unneccessary? Add Quote to your Post
There's already a bronze strip for this purpose at the "heel" of the point assembly.
The points are joined by a soldered connecting bar riveted to the plastic throwbar. At the "hinge" or heel end there is a bronze strip under the rivet which provides the appropriate polarity of current to the closure rails and the frog.
This says "DCC Wiki" but the same rules apply for DC:
https://dccwiki.com/Turnout
Hope that helps, Ed
The jumper wire I am referring to is one that connects each point to its respective closure rail so that no conductivity is lost in that connection. Do you believe this to be unneccessary?
The Shinohara turnouts should have a bronze contact embedded where the throw bar and points meet the stock rails. Keep these clean and make sure they carry the power as designed.
Additionally, if you are using hand-throw switch stands you can wire the diverging routes through additional contacts such as this Caboose Industries 220S ground throw has:
Caboose_220S by Edmund, on Flickr
yellow_cadI do intend to solder jumpers at the point hinges
I never found that really necessary. I would pass a folded piece of fine emery between the point and stock rail to keep the contact area clean to be sufficient. I'm not sure what you mean by soldering a jumper at the "point hinges" since the point "assembly" pivots on one rivet and the points have to change polarity each time the switch is thrown.
Good Luck, Ed
For my yard, I have two older Shinohara triple yard ladders end to end so that so that I will have a total of six spurs that dead end. From a previous thread, it appears that my only source of juice for this yard needs to be at the beginning of the first switch of the first ladder. I don't wish to have the spurs as separate blocks. Considering that it is all one block, is this the correct way to wire my yard? Are there any modifications I can make to the switches in the ladder to better transmit the juice? I do intend to solder jumpers at the point hinges, but is there anything else I can do? Thanks for any assistance on this. Jim