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Atlas turntable

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Atlas turntable
Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, October 28, 2004 8:48 PM
Any idea on how to make it look closer to the real thing?[?]
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Posted by cacole on Thursday, October 28, 2004 10:20 PM
Mount it in a recessed pit and put a bridge type turntable, such as the bridge from a Walthers turntable, on top of it. The Atlas turntable can be made to look like the bottom of the turntable pit, and it's not really noticeable that it is turning.
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Posted by Javern on Saturday, October 30, 2004 10:14 AM
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Posted by CBQ_Guy on Tuesday, November 2, 2004 1:50 PM
My wife recently did a cleaning blitz in our kitchen. Somehow a Model Railroader mag got behind the stove!

It is the February 2002 issue and has an article on page 94 about building a turntable using an Atlas TT as the base and for indexing.

Hope this is useful...
"Paul [Kossart] - The CB&Q Guy" [In Illinois] ~ Modeling the CB&Q and its fictional 'Illiniwek River-Subdivision-Branch Line' in the 1960's. ~
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, November 2, 2004 10:05 PM
QUOTE: Any idea on how to make it look closer to the real thing?

I threw mine in the Trash![(-D]
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, November 2, 2004 10:19 PM
Thanks to all of you for the input
Christian

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