Reply to "Micro Engineering turnout fix? Darned thing is borken at the points..."

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Got a lot done last night.
I yanked out the two busted turnouts after wrestling with the solder iron.
I then replaced the turnouts, installed the final blue point and checked everything with some freight cars. They seemed to like the turnouts. The one turnout with the bad points had a rail almost completely borken free from the ties, which is why it'd never allign. I'm really glad I replaced that one especially, knowing this was the issue.
I'm going to test run a loco over them either tonight or tomorrow just to be sure before soldering the rails back together again.
The ones that were replaced are numbered 4 and 5 in the photo.

Once the soldering is done, my layout will FINALLY be ready for operation.
It was a pain to do and cost some coin, but at least now I don't have to worry about a fix breaking loose.

3/9/158:52 PM

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