I’m dumping my Atlas twin coil machines and going all Tortoise. Is it common practice to snip off the little arm that extends on Atlas turnouts when using with a Tortoise? (The arm with 2 holes used to accept the lever on the twin coil). How far back can it be cut without damage to the turnout? Thanks for the help.
i would trim it so that is about the same as the ties in length as least thats what I did with the ones that I used.
Alternate use for those holes is to move a position signal for the turnout. Took a Caboose and removed the guts so it just slides back and forth and rotates the target. Just an Idea.
George, sounds like you’re onto a cool idea there, but I’m not quite following. What kind of “Caboose” are you talking about?
I think he was referring to Caboose Industries ground throws with signal targets.
http://www.cabooseind.com//pr2.html
You got it. $5.50 each. Just have to be Carefull.