Small turntables

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Anonymous

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Small turntables

Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, December 21, 2003 12:36 PM

What is the smallest "well-style" turntable available for HO? I need a very small turntable for one of my yards for turning the little shunters around and such.
Anthing near 5 inches would be great.

Thnx!

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Jetrock

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August 2003
From: Midtown Sacramento
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Posted by Jetrock on Sunday, December 21, 2003 3:05 PM

For something that small you're probably going to have to scratchbuild. I'm considering a similar project, for an HOn3 layout which runs only 0-4-0 gypsy and Porter engines--I may build a turntable 2" wide! It will of course have to be scratchbuilt, "gallows" style.

Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, December 21, 2003 7:08 PM

scratch building turntables is easy, especially small ones. you don't really need to do that much precision stuff to build one anyway.

i built mine, it took a few days and i'm well chuffed with myself!

neil

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nfmisso

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December 2001
From: San Jose, California
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Posted by nfmisso on Monday, December 22, 2003 1:33 PM

The Altas N scale turntable is 7½", you could build a smaller HO one on top of it........

Nigel N&W in HO scale, 1950 - 1955 (..and some a bit newer too) Now in San Jose, California

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