I’m re-doing part of my layout and plan to put the Peco point motors under the layout for the new trackwork. This means extending the pins on my old point motors. I bought the mounting plates and some brass tubing which fits over the pins and some piano wire which fits into the tubing. The plan is to splice the piano wire onto the ends of the pins with the tubing. If there’s anyone out there who has done this, I’d sure appreciate hearing from you as to how it worked out for you and what to watch out for. It seems pretty straightforward to me, but I’ve learned that if anything can go wrong it will go wrong.
Bob: Peco used to supply a little extension pin with their point motors. This was a piece of brass tubing and a wire. I installed a couple of these and found that they needed to be crimped with pliers and then superglued. Crimp at right angle to the direction of movement.
Peco just announced that they were no longer supplying the extension piece because they were now producing the motor with the extended pin.
Mine seem to work OK.
That’s why I’m rolling my own–can’t get the Peco extensions and I have lots of old point motors. Was planning to use superglue but I’ll take your advice and crimp them too. Thanks.