I had a short on a Super O switch. I took it apart and fixed it, but when I put it back together again, it woudn’t work at all. Any hopes of fixing the cranky old beast?
Did you really open it up, or did you just take the cover off the top? When those Super O switches fry, it’s usually the narrow gauge wire under the rivited plate on the bottom of the switch that vaporize. That’s why the 112 switches have a bad rap, otherwise they’re the best, smoothest switches Lionel ever made.
AHA! That might be it. Yes, I did open it up - took the bottom plate off and everything. My local Lionel Service Station was completly baffled by it, and thought it was a faulty frog.
I’ll do a wire trace and see if that might be it.
Good to see more Super 0 users out there!
If you are interested in Super O here is a Super O Yahoo group that can answer your questions:
The History of Lionel “Super O” Track
( http://www.tcamembers.org/articles/operating/supero/index.html )
Lionel_SuperO_Track Yahoo Group
( http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Lionel_SuperO_Track/ )
“e-Train” TCA Online Magazine
( http://www.tcamembers.org/articles/ )
Very best, Mike
Does anyone know of a replacement switch that is the same dimensions of a Super-O #112 switch. I’m pretty sick of trying to make 50 year-old technology (that wasn’t all that great off the showroom floor, IMO) work reliably. My 112s just seem cranky, and they just stop working at random times. I started switching over to FasTrack, (which the switches work GREAT for), but there are still areas on my layout that I need to use a switch that’s the size of the Super-O. So, is there a new product out there that will replace these cantankerous old units and fit right into the existing layout without having to rip out the surrounding track? Thanks in advance.