Well done, son.  

I started to consider starting some decoration of the train set and began wielding the PVA bottle. A little too enthusiastically unfortunately. I got glue in a couple of Tomix points, and even after some frantic (comical) attempts the clean up, it looked like there was a single gummed up failure.

Thinking, "I can't make it any worse" I unpinned etc and lifted the point. If nothing else, there would be pictures of the switching going on inside, no details of which had I been able to find.

Picture of the underside:



5 screws out and cover off:


Point motor removed to give access to the actuator:


I carefully removed the actuator and the 2 contacts, recovered and replaced one of the 2 little coil springs, and cleaned the gum off the actuator and point motor as best I could.

Put all the gubbins back together and it worked!

Happy days.
Mark

Quote from: Bealman on March 12, 2026, 09:21:17 PMWell let's see it then

One day I'll post a video on YouTube...

Kev E.

Sorry. Nice vid shame about the mix

Nice @madchadbrad . I went through a Clannad phase, haven't listened to them for a while!

Tim

Thanks for the interest.  I started a new job at the end of last year and this has slipped job my list.  I will pick it up again soon, sorry.

Just spotted this on TOTP ...


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BDBG_VgzCvg

Seems like it would suit watching trains passing on the layout ...

Does it include the bit with a slightly mashed Glaswegian going down the carriage banging on all the doors trying to find his mate ?

There is now a 10 hour soundtrack of the sleeper train to drift off to or use as background sound for a layout.

Caledonian Sleeper Launches Dreamlike Soundscape for World Sleep Day

Quote from: Newportnobby on March 13, 2026, 12:34:31 PM

Quote from: madchadbrad on February 09, 2026, 05:45:09 PMThe Stanier non-corridor coaches project is now 90% there, according to Dapol's Facebook account but it hasn't appeared on their website-proper yet . . .

Has anyone seen an update please?

There was a March e-mail newsletter (2nd March) and that update showed the N Gauge LMS suburban project to be at 95% -that is the most recent one I know of. Fingers crossed being that close to the line now the project will find the "legs" to go the rest of the way and reach the quantity needed and go ahead.