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It’s best to start with an Oregon Rail Supply kit, if you can find one. Either Kit No. 125 or No. 127 is best because they include both the platform base and platform hand rails.
Brass tubing: Most 3/32” brass tubing has a wall thickness of 0.014”, which means the inside diameter of the tubing is only 0.066”. K&S Precision Metals makes 3/32” brass tubing with a wall thickness of 0.008”, and therefore an inside diameter of 0.078”. This makes a huge difference when threading wire through the tubing. You may have to contact K&S Precision Metals to obtain this tubing. Tomar sells 3/32” tubing with a 0.006” wall thickness: tomarindustrie...
Wire: The thinnest wire I have found is sold by Tomar Industries. They have 30 gauge wire in a variety of colors. Here is the link: tomarindustrie... Miniatronics also sells 30 gauge stranded wire, but it is noticeably larger than the Tomar wire: miniatronics.c...
I used magnet wire on the first two signals I built. Both of those signals developed shorts within a month of placing them in service. I can only speculate that the insulation was damaged when I threaded the wire through the brass tubing. For that reason, I have never tried using magnet wire since.
Other parts: Tomar Industries also sells a variety of signal parts including bases, targets, platforms and finials: tomarindustrie...
LEDs are available from a variety of places. You’ll want regular red, yellow, or green LEDs for Type D targets, and you’ll want either bicolor (red+green) or three color (red+yellow+green) LEDs for searchlight signals. Most single light targets will accept 3 millimeter LEDs. The Type D targets from Oregon Rail Supply are slightly too small to accept 3 millimeter LEDs.
Type D Single Target 3 color signal: www.ebay.com/i...
Dual Target 3 color Type SA searchlight signal: www.ebay.com/i...
These are just two of many different signal types offered by this vendor Their entire catalog Including scales other than HO) can be found here: www.ebay.com/s...
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26 авг 2024