Originally Posted by Splot

Hi Steve,

I mounted the motor under the base board.

I did this by drilling a hole through the board under the tie bar. The diametre of the hole will need to be big enough to encompas the travel of the tie bar. From memory this is about 6mm or 1/4" in English but you'll need to check.

I think that the Peco point motors come with an extension bar for the point motor bar. If not you can buy them separatley. Also it would be worth using the point motor mounting frame by peco. I didn't. I screwed my directly to the baseboard and always had problems with the motors moving out of alignment.

Last thing is that used to mount the motor and the extension bar through the point and then trim them off using a motor tool. I was really stupid. DON'T DO THIS. The plastic of the tie bar will melt which will mean at best a sloppy fit of the moint motor bar and at worst significant repair of the tie bar.

Lastly you will need to trim the extension bar close to the tie bar as if it is to long it will interfere with the bogie frames of your rolling stock.

Hopr this helps,

Cheers

SPlot