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I have complained on one of these forums before, and feel I have an obligation to let you know things are resolved. Well, probably, I haven't got it into the layout yet... I had poor luck with the first generation of the old Walthers 90' turntable. It had what they refer to as "monkey gears", as in no matter how much you monkey around, it won't work right! There was a small motor, which turned a shaft, which turned a gear to turn the mechanism. Trouble is, you had to put the gear and worm on the shaft, and I bent THREE shafts, after beveling the ends, lubing the shaft... Well, it wasn't bent much, but the low-torque motor would not run smoothly, it would move in spurts, like the second hand on a clock Rrr...Rrrr..Rrrr... It would not run slowly enough to be able to stop at the spot you wanted it to. Walthers sent me a new adaptor for the new, flat motor/gear combo, and now the table is smooth and slow. I tried to get them to exchange the old motor/gears for a new one, but no! I had to shell out the money for a new motor (#933-1050), and while it was worth it to get my table working, I was surprised they didn't stand by their product better. But, it looks like it will work fine now. You still have to eyeball the alignment, but it looks like you can move it slowly enough to be able to get it exact. This probably has NOTHING to do with the new 130' turntable, I hope they used NO parts from the old. After posting a request for help here previously, I found out that no one seems to have been able to get that old mechanism to work! I've heard lots of stories about how to adapt something else, even the Atlas mechanism... Dean Payne [:)]
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