I am using Rix twin coil and mounting under board. Do you make a lever thing or use pre-made parts. I have bent a wire that goes through the board but is hard to adjust, some areas are tight under there. Now I am making a piece out of brass. A little better but still having problems. What are some other ways.
Are you saying that you tried the Rix Rax mounting products and the linkage they supply isn’t working?
http://www.rixproducts.com/6280005.htm
http://www.rixproducts.com/6280001.htm
At the moment I’m taking a break from under-subgrade mounting a couple of RIX machines - the removable Mikasa yard throat is (temporarily) inverted on a work surface to my immediate rear.
My linkage uses an Anderson link, a Z-shaped moving wire in a vertical brass tube. The moving wire is a bent paper clip and the tube is the remains of an ancient ball pen cartridge. At the top, the bent-down end of the leg goes through a conveniently-located hole in the PCB throwbar. At the bottom, the arm is formed into a wishbone, then bent away from the plywood and through the best-suited hole in the RIX machine’s operating lever. That bottom arm can be bent in any direction, without regard for the track orientation above.
I bend the Anderson link first, then locate the machine in the appropriate position. Final tweaking consists of squeezing the ends of the tube to limit side play.
Having easy access to both ends of the switch machine linkage is a convenience, but by no means a necessity unless, like me, you have reached the stage where working upward from underneath the layout is no longer a practical option.
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
I’m not using the linkage parts, just the switch machine. That’s what I’m asking, how to do this without using their linkage.
I used the wire thing on hiddin switches but was trying to make something that wouldn’t show on the visable ones. I made a thing out of a 1/8 brass tube and 1/4 flat piece X 3/4 that go under the switch with a wire up through the throw bar. Same piece underneath but with a hole and a wire link to the machine. The machine is mounted on a 1/4 piece of plywoodwith 2 holes bigger than the screw so it has some adjusting room. Was able to get it working with help from my wife while I was on the floor. I just wondered how anyone else was doing this.