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Re: Turntables (was: The Royal Train Website)
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lugnet.build, lugnet.trains
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Tue, 2 Jan 2001 22:52:22 GMT
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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 member of PNLTC, created some dynamic bridges that
simply posotion the tracks end-to-end without connecting them or cutting
them and the trains seem to traverse the gap with no problems.
BTW Ben Fleskes has completed I believe 3 or 4 iterations of turntables over
the last four years. See Ben's page at
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/1857/benspage.htm
or
www.pnltc.org (specifically
http://www.pnltc.org/Gal_PDX_GATS_Q199/yard/Gal_PDX_GATS_Q199_yard.html)
His latest is the best and will be shown in a few weeks at GATS in Portland, OR.
SteveB
In lugnet.build, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> In lugnet.build, Larry Pieniazek writes:
>
> > 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 as it could autoshuffle 3 locos around 5 stalls,
> > indexing from one stall to the next.
> >
> > Also David K. "Zonker" Harris did one: http://www.baylug.org/zonker/
> > specifically this link: http://www.baylug.org/zonker/ZTurntable.html
> >
> > 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.
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> 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?
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> (1) The notch where the tracks are 1/2 width and latterally overlap when
> snapped together.
>
> thanks,
>
> Chris
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