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Reply to "SWITCHES: Manual vs Actuators, Regarding Non-Derailing, or lack thereof"

RWL posted:

OK, I have been looking at these on line, and I think I understand the yellow part.
In the pic that shows the assembly of those 3 parts, what you are calling the threaded rod, looks more like a mettle cable that would be the motion transfer component, and would slide inside the yellow part, making the red tube redundant.

No, the threaded rod is just a connector. There are different versions of these push rods. This picture may be what's confusing you. I don't know what that is sticking out of the yellow part in the lower part of this image. It is not the threaded rod. It almost looks like a special splice of some sort. It doesn't matter, it's the upper part of this image that is important. Trust me, you NEED the red part.

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I now see that, what looks like a mettle cable, is the threaded rod, end extension, that mates up to the yellow sliding component, and attaches to the clevis.
Is this correct?

Yes!

Does the threaded rod actually thread into the yellow tube, or is it forced in, leaving the yellow tube to deform around it?
Do you glue it in as wel?

The threaded rod is screwed into the yellow part, and self forms threads in the soft plastic. The threaded rod is only about an inch or so long. No glue.

 

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