{"id":601,"date":"2021-12-28T16:48:49","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T06:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/?p=601"},"modified":"2021-12-28T16:55:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T06:55:43","slug":"kato-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/28\/kato-to-the-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"Kato to the rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I finally got fed up trying to run trains at low speeds over the Peco scissors turnout and decided to replace it with a Kato unit. During the dismantling of the Peco unit I found one of the wires to one of the Dual Frog Juicers was broken. This was almost certainly the reason why Locos would not cross the Peco scissors at slow speeds without stalling. However I decided to continue with the swap as I saved 4 point motors and 2 dual frog juicers for future use. The Kato unit is a single point motor which throws the rails to either straight through, or crossed. How simple!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An Atlas GP9 crossing the Kato scissors crossing with no issues at all!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I did a few more jobs before Perth’s 40 degree plus Christmas drove me indoors! . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Installed an NCE Mini Panel in preparation for wiring up the South Denver control panel.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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In order to wire up the Mini Panel I had to take the wiring across the roof of the garage. At the recommendation of the NCE groups.io group I took the opportunity to reinstall the RB02 wireless repeater in the roof. I also learnt how to make NCE 6p6c cables. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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I reinforced the support for the three Denver Union Station modules at the suggestion of Frank, our WA NMRA Superintendent.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Installed the first of a number of human lounging stations, with arm rest (from Kogan), fold up drink holder (from Boat Accessories Australia) and NCE throttle holder<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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At the suggestion of the local NMRA guys I have started the biggish job of concreting the gap between the garage walls and the outside world to try and minimise the dust issues caused by Perth’s sandy soil. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I finally got fed up trying to run trains at low speeds over the Peco scissors turnout and decided to replace it with a Kato unit. During the dismantling of the Peco unit I found one of the wires to one of the Dual Frog Juicers was broken. This was almost certainly the reason why […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-n-scale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":615,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions\/615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}