Which turntable? HO Scale

Ezra Kowadlo · 2008-04-03T19:55:06+00:00

For HO scale,Which turntable do you own?What the advantages and shortcomings?Does it operate reliably?Where is it manufactured?Which indexing system did you choose?

Apr 03, 2008 26 Replies

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Jeff in c-ville 18 years ago

I have a couple of the old Atlas ones

Biggest disadvantage is the short length, 9 inches which is 62 scale feet. That works for most older diesels and some steam engines such as Model Power old-timers and old Bachmann Prairie/Consolidation/10-wheeler. Not suitable for newer steam and diesel engines, but many folks have used the mechanism at the bottom of the turntable pit to drive larger bridges. Advantage is low price and good indexing.

Very.

I think it was Germany, perhaps not now.>

It has a built in "Geneva drive" with nylon gearing that has realistic speed with their motorizing kit. Old ones indexed to 12 positions, newer ones perhaps 24.

Jeff Cornelius

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Howard R Garner 18 years ago

I have two Diamond Scale Models - Gallows Freshwater Models - Sellers

Both, very good

Both - USA

Mark 1 Eyeball

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Andrew Robert Breen 18 years ago

I've seen kits advertised on the Gauge O Guild gazette: range of sizes from 42' up to 70', IIRC, and a range of types. I vauguely seem to recall one of the tinplate-revivalist firms (ACE, maybe?) offering one in ready-to-use form, but I'd not swear to that. I don't //think// anyone does a ready-to-use one in finescale O..

Certainly that woudl work fine for a 40-some' turntable (in O). It's probably the route I'm going to go down, given that the biggest things I'm going to want to turn on it are 6-wheel engines + 4-wheel tenders.

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Rick Jones 18 years ago

Use an HO turntable as a sub-base for the mechanism and build the O scale on top to whatever size you need.

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Greg Procter 18 years ago

I've done this with an Arnold N gauge TT for my HO layout after building several nasty TTs from scratch. The only downsides are initial cost (I got it cheap) and that it needs careful mounting to cut down the 'mech in plastic" noise. It works perfectly every time!

Regards, Greg.P.

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