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G Scale Ore cars with Automatic Dumping - HELP!

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G Scale Ore cars with Automatic Dumping - HELP!
Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, October 9, 2004 4:26 AM
I am hoping that someone can help me brainstorm on a way to design a setup for the Ore Cars on my G Scale system to dump on command. I am currently running Ore Cars from Hartland Products and would like to come up with a way, either electrical or mechanical, to get the cars to dump their loads when they reach a certain location.

Is anyone aware of a G Scale manufacturer that either makes Ore cars that automatically dump, or that makes products that would activate them to dump?

Thanks!!
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, October 9, 2004 7:30 AM
You would have to modify your cars, but check out how Carl Arendt does it on his Squarefoot Railway using Gn15:

http://carendt.com/squarefoot/index.html

Regards,
Bill C.
South Jersey
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, October 10, 2004 9:23 PM
Sorry Chestnut226,

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[#welcome] Mglasgow
One thing is a motor like MTH has on there 2 cars they make.
Hate to buy one and pop it open to see inside, besides there are smaller motors that can handle this operation. I just have not looked one up.

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