Thursday, January 31, 2008

Turn-table




Installed the turntable during the course of this week and here are some images. As usual, click on the images to make them bigger.
As you can see from the top picture, there is significant clearance between the lip of the turntable and the pink insulation. that is the ONLY way I could get the track to line up since the track on the rotating bridge is exactly in like with the lip of the bowl so, if I was to push the bowl down all the way to the lip then there is no way I can get any track with any trackbed (even peco or atlas) to align with the bridge... not sure if this is correct. Going to keep testing.




1 comment:

wes said...

How about carving away the insulation under the roadbed, so that it gradually sinks down towards the turntable until alignment is achieved?

Or I would think to just build up the topography around the turntable... but it seems like it would be more stable to push it all the way down.

I'm just drawing up a track plan based on the Richfield & Fond du Lac, without much experience.