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Model Forum / General / Railroads / December 2009Dapol Turntable
Has anyone motorised one of these? Do they have a centre pivot hole and do they have any fixing arrangements for the track? Is there any damning critiscism? Regards : Has anyone motorised one of these? Do they have a centre pivot hole : and do they have any fixing arrangements for the track? : : Is there any damning critiscism? Are you talking about the ex Airfix kit, if so then yes, yes, no (but you don't really want them anyway IMO). Indexing for alto-stop etc. can be achieved by using (under the base board) a disc wheel/cam, mounted on a 'centre dive axle' and micro switches or wipers and contacts. IYSWIM. It is possible but is not an 'open the box, shake it out and hay-presto we have a working turntable' sort of thing, some modelling, basic mechanical and electrical knowledge is needed. >Has anyone motorised one of these? Do they have a centre pivot hole >and do they have any fixing arrangements for the track? No, yes and yes in that order. It would probably be easier to get the indexing set up and then lay the track to the index positions from what I've read of indexing the Peco turntable. Guy  Signaturehttp://www.chapmancentral.co.uk/ The usenet price promise: all opinions offered in newsgroups are guaranteed to be worth the price paid. On 30 déc, 00:03, "Just zis Guy, you know?" <guy.chap...@spamcop.net> wrote: > On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:04:18 -0800 (PST), Sailor > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > The usenet price promise: all opinions offered in newsgroups are guaranteed > to be worth the price paid. Thanks for the input. I have access to motor/gearbox direct drives at 2 rpm and plenty of reed sw/magnets so with a pair of relays indexing is no problem. I have a Peco with oa piece missing! and thought the basic plasic bits might well be fashioned into a functional unit but photos do not give much detail -- even so the outline is more realistic than the Hornby and far far cheaper than others from the HO world. > Has anyone motorised one of these? Do they have a centre pivot hole > and do they have any fixing arrangements for the track? > > Is there any damning critiscism? You'll need to do a lot of reinforcing to the deck part of the turntable for it to be a practical proposition for turning anything but the lightest loco. John. [ob. Dapol TT] >You'll need to do a lot of reinforcing to the deck part of the turntable for >it to be a practical proposition for turning anything but the lightest loco. The Peco one is a lot more rigid, for sure. Guy Signaturehttp://www.chapmancentral.co.uk/ The usenet price promise: all opinions offered in newsgroups are guaranteed to be worth the price paid. |
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