Choosing the correct Point Motor Jig
To start with choose the jigs that work with your point motors.
All of our Jigs are colour coded and are as follows:
- Blue Jigs: For DCC Concepts Cobalt type Motors.
- Green Jigs: For Tortoise and Smail Type Motors. Please note that the MTB, MP-10 motors use the same footprint as these so you should choose these for those motors.
- Orange Jigs: For SEEP motors.
- Red Jigs: For Peco Twistlock type motors.
- Yellow Jigs for MTB type motors (there are two ranges, the MP-1 and Mp4)
- Grey Jigs: These are not so much Jigs but conversion plates allowing you to fit a Peco PL-10 motor to a conversion plate and the plate lines up with the fixing holes made from other jigs.
Now choose your gauge:
The Jigs are available in the following gauges. O, OO, TT120 and N gauges
All our jigs have been designed around specific points and made for the gauge as required. They will fit all codes of track for the given gauge. For instance Code 100 track in OO gauge has a higher profile than Code 85. The jigs were designed to fit on the Code 100 track, this allows to easily fit onto the Code 85 as it does have a lower profile. In virtually all cases the physical geometary of the points are the same. In some cases it has been noted that in some cases, like the Double Slips, there is a slight difference in the distances from one set of tie bars to the other to be different for the PECO Electrofrog and the PECO Unifrog Double slips. This is practice is not really a problem as when working on one end of the slips you can ensure correct alignment and when you work on the other end you can make the slight adjustment to align correctly.
It should be noted that when using the jigs there is no real definate click into place fitting, the Jig sits neatly in place without force. The very first original jigs were designed to click into place but this was later re-designed to just sit in place which allowed a wider range of points to work with a single jig, be it long , short, straight or curved.
Another thing to remember for the TT120 jigs, there are two versions of all of these jigs. There are version for Peco points and Hornby points. The reason for this is that the Peco points have the holes in the ends of the tie bars and in the case of the Hornby points there is only one central hole in the tie bar. Choose the correct version.
Now Choose the correct Jig for the type of point .
We have jigs to suite the following:
- Universal Type: These fit single points, long, short, curved or straight.
- 3 Way Type: These are the 3way symetrical type where the three tracks brach out at the same position like a fan.
- 3 way Asymmetric Type: This is the type that is like twe single points one branching before the other.
- Double Slip Type: You can also use this jig for a single slip although you will not be using all of the fixing holes.
- Scissor points: There is also jigs for the scissor points, the jigs are designed to fit on one end at a time.
We constantly update the list of available jigs as more and more point styles and options are made available.