Ross switch how to fix the tie attached to the points

 Ross can supply you a new throw bar and pins. If easily removed. You may just be able to ship it to them for a repair. If you can't remove the switch easily. You can repair it in place. You will need to cut the 2 stringers that keep the ties in line with an X acto knife. Just between the 2 ties on either side of the throwbar. A little heat from a pencil type soldering iron and the pins will separate from the rails. Try to leave the existing solder somewhat in place. You should be able to fish everything out. You then need to install the new pins in the throwbar. Place a thin strip of brass or basswood to hold the pins in place. You then should be able to slide this under the rails. You then need to raise it up to solder the rails onto the pins. An assortment of basswood in different thicknesses can be used to shim it to the proper height.  Small pieces can also be wedged in place to hold the rails against the pins and the throwbar in the proper alignment. When everything looks good. Just get in there quick and solder everything in place.

They can be fixed. Ross will supply new bars. There are small pins attached to the sides of the rail points.

The bars reacted to the heat of being solder or the flux that was used. 

I fabricated bars from an electrical switch plate. 

Fixing the throw bar in place was easier than removing the switch.  IMO.  

See Ultimate Product Support from Ross Switches info on why some of the throw bars are failing.

Steve sent me throw bars with pins.  Mine were easy to fix.  The hard part was removing the switches from the ceiling track and reinstalling them.  Mine were installed in 2005 and I'm crossing my fingers hoping only part of the batch were bad.

Contact owner Steven Brenneisen at 1-800-331-1395 .