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<p>The turnouts did not survive the poor workmanship and design. Throw them away and pick a better brand. I echo Don and say that Turnouts are not the place to cheapen your track expenses. But dont go all the way to Kato either.</p><p>Blunt points can be filed. Out of gauge track can either be filed down a little bit or blocked down (Or spiked down at the proper gauge)</p><p>I actually dropped a Atlas number 6 turnout directly into what was once a single track main. I used a dremel cutting tool. What I did was lay the switch on top of the main track and used a marker to lightly mark the ends of the switch where the track needs to be cut.</p><p>Then carefully (With eye protection) cut straight down and chopped the section of main out. Luckily the new switch dropped straight into the gap with JUST ENOUGH wiggle room and gaps for the joiners to slide over and close the gap.</p><p>I would have gone atlas switches myself but continual complaints from locals about failing points, bad points, failure of the stamped point blocks and poor gauging of the Frog/gaurd and everything else led me not to consider atlas switches.</p><p>However, should a atlas fail, it is easy to chop THEM out and replace with ANOTHER atlas. The problem then becomes how often (And how much $) you spend over time before ripping the whole thing back up.</p><p>The Host railroad is:</p><p><a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v716/LarryCrabb/">http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v716/LarryCrabb/</a>?</p><p>And the video of the switch that was installed is:</p><p> <a href="http://s181.photobucket.com/albums/x173/fallsvalleyrr/?action=view&current=MovingMeet-1.flv">http://s181.photobucket.com/albums/x173/fallsvalleyrr/?action=view&current=MovingMeet-1.flv</a></p><p> </p>
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