Miscellaneous Track Items
This section contains all the track-related items which are not featured on other pages in the Track Components section.
Tortoise Adaptor Plates (AXX TAP0)
The Tortoise Adaptor Plate consists of a simple set of mouldings designed to enable the widely used Tortoise Switch Machine (produced by Circuitron of Romeoville, IL, USA) to be adapted to provide a concealed ‘twin tube’ connection to the switch rails of a turnout.
It has been produced as part of the NewTrack project which is creating a range of accurate and easy to assemble 4mm scale turnout kits to P4 standards. The Adaptor Plate can, however, be used for any gauge or scale for which the Tortoise is a suitable switch machine.
In addition to a Tortoise switch machine and the Adaptor Plate mouldings, you will need 4 x 6BA countersunk screws 15mm long with nuts and washers and between two and six 3mm countersunk wood screws, of a length to suit the baseboard thickness (baseboard thickness + 5mm is a good guide). You will also need some metal tube (brass, 1/16”OD, 1.0mm ID will do), some wire to provide a sliding fit in the tube (nickel silver 0.9mm dia will fit the brass tube nicely) and the usual modelling equipment – soldering iron, needle files, pin chuck, drills, scalpel and a junior hacksaw.
Click the link to download the full instructions for Tortoise Adaptor Plates.
