S-Helper Service Track | #3 Turnout | Electrical

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#3 Turnout

Electrical

Insulated Track

Don Thompson provided this hint for when wanting to insulate a section of track off of the turnout:

"Remember, you can use the switch as the start of the insulated section by moving the slide switch by the frog."

"If you do not want the other section of rail adjacent to the insulated rail to also be shorted, add a jumper to the same rail on the other side of the switch."

"To add the insulator to our sectional track, you need to remove the metal rail joiner. Once removed, the metal rail joiner will be distorted and cannot be re-used. To remove the metal rail joiner, use a small flat blade screwdriver under the joiner where the tab goes down and into the roadbed. Carefully work the screwdriver so the tab slowly comes up from the roadbed. Once enough is up, so that you can get a small pair of needle-nose pliers to go under the tab and grab, twist the rest of the tab up through the hole. Once the tab is away and out for the roadbed, you can then pull the rail joiner from the base of the rail."

"To insert the insulated rail joiner, use the small screwdriver like a little crowbar and raise the rail ever so slightly and then slide the rail-joiner onto the base of the rail."