laws california gallows turntable

[madmike3434]

Here are 4 pictures of an O scale laws california turntable that is scratch built. It has a 24 stop position digital control motor.

The 2-6-0 On30 engine is a bachmann originally painted christmas colours of red & green..  I pried off all the brass coloured engine piping and repainted the loco in engine black and weathered black , slightly weathering it.  I also added a precision scale tool boxes, big stack. I also managed to acquire a vacumn tank on the boiler .  The Backshop brass deer antlers were applied to headlight. Converted the tender to oil using a resin kit from somebody , plus scratch built a hose and reel system on the deck.

mike

[madmike3434]

another view

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another view

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another view

[Frederic Testard]

Very nice, Mike. So you only relied on the spider mechanism to rotate the table?

[madmike3434]

yes the electrical mechanism rotates the turntable.  It is digitally commanded thru a telephone cord and rotator.  I hooked it up and made it run a few times then left it sit on top of a cabinet in the living room. Where it has stayed till this day.

A thin flat metal bar is soldered to a round metal bar, which attaches to the turntable itself, it drops down thru a larger, next 1/64th size,  metal pipe and is centered with set screws , so that everything rotates flatly. If a set screw is not used on either side of the shaft,  it will not rotate flat to the surface. You get a wobble as its going around. Took some thinking & head scratching to figure out what i did wrong.

This was built about 5-6 years ago , so some of the details are sketchy.
mike

[Ray Dunakin]

Nice. I like the scenery too.