PECO Templates Try this link for a template download. http://www.sodigi.com/Peco_Track.htm PECO includes templates in their Catalogs, so they should be widely available. Hope this helps Dirk
I prefer the #7's. I've got about 75 of them. I have 10 #5's from the earliest batch four years ago, with the too-tight flangeways that were pretty easily fixed with a few swipes of a jeweler's file. That problem has been corrected since. The #5's and #7 both work very well on my layout. They might be a little fussier about wheel gauge and also the track laying around the switch, but they've caused no problems on my layout. I started buying Peco in the late 70s, and used them until 2002. My only problem was that a few of them popped the snap wire that holds them in position.
What I did was take a switch an trace around it on heavy cardboard. I marked the center of the track. on both sides and used that to lay out my switches on the layout. #8's and #6's.
In planning my layout, I bought a switch and scanned it. Instant template. Flopping it gave me the other hand switch. Reducing it for my drawing plan gave me a handy--and accurate--planning tool.
