... : Nigel Brown Andrew Duncan wrote: Nigel Brown wrote: I build loose heel switches as loose heel switches. I use plastic chairs. Reckon there's enough give in the heel chair for the switch to move as intended. This is 3mm/ft. Hello Nigel Would you say a bit more about this approach? What sort of plastic chair are you using and does this mean you also have the electrical break at the heel? Are there issues/cautions needed when track cleaning? Sounds interesting. Kind regards Andrew Hi Andrew 528_151428_480000000.jpg There is indeed an electrical break at the heel, visible on the right of the pic. There is a dropper soldered to the underside of each rail (before laying), just to the left of the loose heel chairs, which passes straight through the baseboard. The switches are laid simply by gluing the heel chair to the timber. After that, the tiebar (gapped PCB strip) is attached, by means of bent brass pins which pivot in the the tiebar and are soldered to the switch rails. The ...