Did a few different things on this switch. I cut the back metal plate along with the rails. I drilled a hole in the bottom near the lever in order to supply 14V constant power & not rail power. I then reversed the cut off tail and mated with a 1/2 curve to get parallel tracks with 4.25" center to center. Glad that I found this thread, it has resurrected (7) 042 switches from storage to fill out the rail yard.