RAFHAAA96 wrote:I wondered about using crash through points with an elastic band to biase the point one way, but I guess I would still need to consider polarity changing at the moment of impact.
Rob
Instead of using an elastic band which may perish with time, and springs can be a little too strong, Why not drill a hole through the board, and attach some fishing line to the point and at the other end of the fishing line add a small weight to it.
I once saw a garden railway built onto a wooden garden fence. It was a type of end to end layout with a run round loop at the end. The young man used H0 points made by Fleishmann as the points have a baissed light spring which allows trains to pass against them. Thus he was able to run round a train and couple up the other end to return to his shed. His layout had operated like this for over a year when I saw it and it all operated flawlessly. He'd not touched the points other then cleaning the track. He did have a small garden (More of an outdoor yard) which was sheltered to the harsher weathers, though it was still open to the great outdoors.
I thought I'd mention it. The points he was using were secondhand and I would say were made around the 1970's to the 1980's.(I dont know a lot about Fleishmann track!)