Walthers Turntable

"Rob Kemp" <

Which Walther's table?

The first one of several years ago was a piece of crap and should be avoided at all costs.

Don't ask how I know. :-(

-- Cheers Roger T.

Home of the Great Eastern Railway

How do you know?? :-) I'm looking at the newest HO one, mainly cos the problems motorising the Peco one. Rob

"Rob Kemp"

I'd send you the bloody thing but I wouldn't do that to my worst enemy.

You should be OK then.

-- Cheers Roger T.

Home of the Great Eastern Railway

The table is huge - 130 HO feet, which is about 18 inches, and that's not including the surrounding frame. Also expensive, even without the NYRS indexing system. A choice of 90' or 105' with manual motor controls would be nice - maybe they'll make such.

"Steve Caple" <

Yes, a good, inexpensive 90 to 105 foot table would be nice. Too bad Walther's first one was such crap.

-- Cheers Roger T.

Home of the Great Eastern Railway

"Steve Caple" <

Yes, a good, inexpensive 90 to 105 foot table would be nice. Too bad Walther's first one was such crap.

-- Cheers Roger T.

Home of the Great Eastern Railway

Yet Bob Boudreau seemed to have made his work, after a fashion; was the problem with a crappy motor drive, or was the plastic pit out of round, or?

Yes, to both.

The bridge actually looks quite good, I'm think of using that in the next version of the GER but with my own pit and drive system.

-- Cheers Roger T.

Home of the Great Eastern Railway

I've been looking at the Walthers turntable too but am open to other recommendations. I won't be installing it for a while, but I want to precut the hole for easier installation later. What size hole is needed for the Walthers product?

Thanks/Carter

Best recommendation I can give is to sue the Peco turntable and build your owndrive system. A good shaft firmly attached to the table will do wonders for the turntable and then there is only the problem of doing the drive itself. That, iwth a good center shaft, isn't hard to do. Another small motor in the table to drive the indexing pins in and out and a drive system for that can easily be done. I do recommmend that you design in some indexing mechanism so that once you get close to alignment, yo ucan then drive the indexing home and get the perfect alignment.

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