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My Bowser turntable is very simple. I do not have indexing and although this would be nice, it isn't necessary if you can visually align the tracks. The turntable pivot is telescopes through brass tubing. The pivot from the turntable bridge, runs through the brass tube bearing. Below the pit, and mounted to the pivot is a plywood disk almost the size of the turntable. Making contact with the edge of this disk through spring pressure, is the drive motor with gear reduction. The drive wheel is an aluminum spool with rubber o-rings for tires. <br /> <br />I have a center off toggle switch which controls power to the turntable. In the up position, the tracks on the turntable bridge receive track power. In the center position both track and turntable motor are off, in the down position, the motor receives track power and the rotation direction and speed of the turntable spin is controlled with my hand held DC throttle. <br /> <br />I will eventually be converting the turntable to DCC, however, I haven't doped all that out yet.
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