A lefthand point alongside a piece of the six foot radius mainline in which it needs to fit.
First with Peco points you need to remove these tabs (ringed in red), which hold the rails from moving in the sleeper base.
A small bladed flat screwdriver easily levers them out.
These are what pop out, you don’t need them now.
Next lever off the tie bar spring cover.
With a small pair of pliers, remove the spring, put in a safe space with the cover, they need to be fitted at the end of the process.
The stock rails now slide out as do the switch blades and tie bar.
Using a set of rollers, I curved the rails.
They now match the mainline, but this was an error, I should have curved the inner rail more because it will be the switch line so needs to be tighter!
I pushed the rails in and just used small clamps to line it up with the mainline rail. To facilitate this, some of the sleeper web strips need to be cut and the ones on the inner curve need to be shortened, easy enough with a pair of snips, my Xuron's came in useful for this task.
Next I need to cut some timbers to screw the track down to hold the curve. Then apply a slight bend to the switch blades, check and shorten the inner one. Refit with spring and cover and move on to the next point to curve.
Martin
