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"Reinhard \"Ben\" Beneke" <r.beneke@tu-bs.de> writes:
> So far I am not sure how a track of only 2.33 height over ground can
> be done as motorized turntable. But the MichLTC (but who from
> MichLTC?) has done at least a "less then 4 high" version of a
> 48studs table as it seems. I hope I can "copy" and lower that in
> some way.
To get the turntable as low as possible I think the key is to remove
the requirement that the motor be located under the rotating track.
Here are a couple of possibilities:
* If you put the motor outside the circle and have it drive a wheel
with rubber tire that is pressed against the outside edge of the
turntable, then that would not only allow you to go down to maybe
even less than 2 bricks high (put the motor inside a decorative
building near the edge of the turntable), but also remove the need
to gear down the motor.
* Or use a large pulley system to connect a motor outside the circle
with the center hub.
* Another possibility would be to put a "control shack" on the
turntable itself, alongside the tracks, and to have the motor
concealed in that. So that way the motor can stick up above the
track level, but still rotate along with the tracks.
Hope this helps.
--Bill.
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| (...) Thanks for sharing these ideas: I have had the motor outside the turntable and had a long connecting axle hidden underneath the turntables visible floor. But in the end this lead to my 5 bricks high solution, that I dislike. In a beta-version (...) (22 years ago, 17-May-02, to lugnet.org.us.lucny, lugnet.trains)
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| In lugnet.org.us.lucny, Ben Fleskes writes: [Snip after reading it twice] (...) Thanks Ben (from PNLTC), for posting your basical design rules for the PNLTC roundhouse. I have been working some more on my roundhouse redesign yesterday night and have (...) (22 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.org.us.lucny, lugnet.trains)
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