Summary

This is a switch machine that I'll call 'Hidden Switcher' as it is a manual switch machine that your don't see (or see very little of).

It is an enclosure for a small DPST slide switch that can be set down into the layouts surface. The switch fits into it and the top slide piece glues to the square handle on the top of the switch. You can then attach camouflage items to the top slide which you use to push the switch and the turnout points.

You can print the top slide with or without the vertical peg with the hole near the top for a control wire to the turnout.

If you are using a deck with an object that has a hole in the front for the control wire print out the top slide with the shorter peg. Glue the slide to the DPST switch and a deck with a front control wire hole to the top of the slide. Use the shorter peg to help with gluing and fill around it for a flat surface on the deck.

The DPST slide switch that is under the slide and deck also controls the proper track polarity to the frog of the turnout.

I will be posting a number of camouflage items, such as, barrels, pipes, a shed, boxes and more that will mount on top of the switch slide. You can see more on my web site here as to how this works...

http://1fatgmc.com/RailRoad/3D-Printer/3D-Printer-Index.html

You snap the two parts of the enclosure together and then glue them with CA. The top slide snaps over the square push/pull handle on top of the switch and is also glued to it with CA.

Prints were printed with an Ender 3 Pro using Cura set on 'Super Quality' in the 'Profile' setting and with a stock .4 nozzle.