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I built my turntable from scratch. It depends on your era but small turntables up to the 40s and large turntalbes up to the 20s didn't really use the pit ring except when locos were going on and off. I model the 20s and my turntable is quite short (~27cm). <br /> <br />This turntalbe doesn't have a pit ring at all - just heavy wooden blocks under the ends of the tracks leading onto the turntable and blocks on the opposite side to hold the bridge if a loco goes too far. <br /> <br />The last turntable I built did have a pit rail but that was a lot more of a pain to make as the rail needs to be quite precise. <br /> <br />For current collection I used the method that Jim Kelly used in his article in the Oct. 1989 MR article on scratchbuilding an N-scale Santa Fe turntable (pages 98 - 103). This involves cutting the central drive shaft with a staggered step then isolating the top and bottom halves of the turntable shaft with a telescopic piece of styrene tube that fits inside the brass tube. A pair of wipers on opposite sides of the shaft and a wire connecting the bottom part of the drive shaft to one rail and the top half to the other rail means that the polarity is auto reversing and under the tayout to keep the dust off it. <br /> <br />My turntable works spectacularly well and cost all of £10 - just as it should be [:)] <br /> <br />build your own - it is no where near as hard as you'd think [:D] <br /> <br />neil
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