Grafting Eldon Selectronic XLC into Artin 1/32 ac2car

[viejoronnie]

20180921_212129.jpgReceived my 1963 Eldon Selectronic cable-operated XLC's today to make my XLC's for my Artin based ac2car home track.

Ideally, I wanted to use either the 1965 Selectronic "Speed Control" or the 1973 Cox "Automatic" XLCs, but I am still looking for those at a reasonable cost.

Sure, the Eldon slot is rather shallow, but the slots are 3" from center to center like Artin and the Eldon power rails line up perfectly to the Artin. The Eldon track is exactly 6" wide and the Artin only slightly wider.

Grafting this XLC into Artin shouldn't be too difficult using the mounting holes in the Eldon track to help hold the tracks to create a horizontal cut line guide using nails inserted through those holes into the Artin track slot on either edge of the Artin track. I will take two Artin straights and graft the XLC exactly into the middle, thus the resulting Eldon piece will centered in the middle of the new Eldon/Artin double length piece.

I will definitely have to shim the bottom of the white plastic lane change pieces as they extend below the surface of the Eldon track slot and could bind/capture the guide blade.

While the cable operation allows a lane change or not on both lanes at the same time, I think I can do a little bit of modification to the lever and slot so that the sharp end of the lever sits in the middle of the slot to allow the guide to semi-randomly make the lane change or not, depending on the lateral position of the guide blade within the slot.

To be continued.

[viejoronnie]

I just found a couple of 1965 Selectronic"Speed Control" XLC's. These are on demand lane changers that allow the lane change when the cars are going quickly through the section. Otherwise the car goes straight at a lower speed.