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Turntables (was: The Royal Train Website)
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lugnet.build, lugnet.trains
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Tue, 2 Jan 2001 12:56:41 GMT
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In lugnet.build, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> It's complex but not undoable. Several people/orgs have done it.
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> The "old" (1) "main" (2) GMLTC layout had a turntable as well. Mindstorms
> actuated/animated. I believe the indubitable J1(3) has expounded on how it
> worked. It was pretty nifty as it could autoshuffle 3 locos around 5 stalls,
> indexing from one stall to the next.
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> Also David K. "Zonker" Harris did one: http://www.baylug.org/zonker/
> specifically this link: http://www.baylug.org/zonker/ZTurntable.html
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> Surf brickshelf for the FGLC pics and you'll find this:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=2551 and the first pic in
> the folder is of a turntable.
Larry, thanks for the pointers.
I just got trains for the first time this December and this coupled with
talking to Jim Rosikiewicz about gearing problems for his turntable at the last
GardenSLUG meeting has had me thinking about how to do this.
My main question at this point is: is it commonly a problem getting the train
to traverse the gap in the tracks where they don't clip together? I'm playing
with some track and a train car now and it seems like if you devise a way to
assure that they're pretty close, it works OK -- but makes a clicking bump, but
more than about .5 mm off to the side and the car derails. Has anyone filled
in the notch(1) on the tracks with something to help the cars go from
stationary track to the turntable?
(1) The notch where the tracks are 1/2 width and latterally overlap when
snapped together.
thanks,
Chris
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 | | Re: Turntables (was: The Royal Train Website)
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| Several people have cut track in half and use the cut side toward the gap. For example for a turn table you'd use 1 cut track (two 1/2's) for the turn table itself and 1 cut track (two 1/2's) for every two radial sidings. However Kim Toll, another (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Turntables (was: The Royal Train Website)
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| (...) last (...) I don't think it counts until you have your first motor/engine and some track. :-) Besides, I swapped those useless train parts into a J-box along the way some time. :-( Chris (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.fun)
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| | Re: The Royal Train Website
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| (...) It's complex but not undoable. Several people/orgs have done it. The "old" (1) "main" (2) GMLTC layout had a turntable as well. Mindstorms actuated/animated. I believe the indubitable J1(3) has expounded on how it worked. It was pretty nifty (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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