Hi all,

I have a set of passenger coaches with interior lighting and so one of these coaches has a slider.
It is the standard Marklin clip in pickup shoe sold with interior lightning kits and has a despressed centre with a single hole in the middle.



Unfortunately I've found that this design results in a short circuit when driving over the slender K track switches 22715/22716 set in the thrown position.
Closer inspection appeared to show that as the pukos rise to cross the rails in the centre area of the switch it results in the slider height dropping a little bit when the highest puko reaches the depressed centre.

When the slider drops that little bit it is enough for it to then touch the rail.
At speed this happens very quickly and avoids a short circuit overload from the CS2 but if you run it at medium speed it will stop the CS2 with an overload.

This is of course very frustrating and means all my sliders of this style need to be replaced.
The clip-in design of this slider is rather unique and so I don't believe there is a direct replacement for it.

Lucky for me I happened to have another slider (Brawa 2225) which is not a clip-in design but the flat part of the slider is the same length and attachment design as the Marklin!



The tricky part is removing the flat slider part without damaging the spring part of the slider. The spring part did end up bent but I was able to straight it back out.

With the Brawa flat slider attached to the Marklin spring part and clip-in assembly my coach now travels over these points without issue.


Has anyone else noticed this issue? Any other alternatives that are not as costly? The Brawa slider is not cheap and you are only using half of it too.

Hello Eric,

Sliders The CURSE !!!

Sorry to hear about you grief, I went through the same problems on my last K track layout. Once you remedy this all will go well! Trust me, been there done that!

My biggest problem was with the Koploper train set on the double slip 2275. Two sliders causing the train set to stop at slow speeds.

If interested;

https://www.marklin-user...itch-K-Track-design-flaw

I have noticed a similar problem (in reverse but with different dynamics) on C track turnouts, both slim and curved.

The issue is limited to the new style "flat" thin spring steel slider provided by Maerklin on some locos, and more generally on other brands locos.
The thin steel has a tendency to roll sideways on the pukos and making contact with a running rail.
This always at the point where the puko is closer to the running rail.

The problem does not occur with the solid brass "hole in the centre" slider.

Kimball

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The best solution to totally eliminate this dilemma is to switch to two rail track.

Yes a simple solution to the age old problem with the slider. But like us all we will stay the course and embrace the idiosyncrasies and live on with Märklin, long live Märklin!

Edited by user 25 October 2018 03:15:39(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Yeah but then you have to go around creating isolated sections and installing reversing-loop controllers all over the place.