I’m not real happy with the pivot — it won’t turn very smoothly because there’s too much play in the “bushing.” I don’t know that I’m going to have enough time to do anything about it before Kimberton. The trick is going to be coming up with a pivot and axle that is rigidly mounted and doesn’t rely on the pit rail or the center bushing for its operation. Once I get that behaving better, then I can worry about motorizing the thing.

That turntable is absolutely grand.
Well done; I hope it works as good as it looks.

best regards

ChrisA

For reference, the green on the boiler is Northern Pacific green that I had specially mixed when I worked for MTH. The paint used on the model is actually auto laquer.

Looks great. Don’t worry about me, one of the reasons I can’t go to New Paltz is my modules are all still legless. I’m the one sweating bullets.

Choptank number 4 is an added bonus- I’m thinking about that paint scheme for my next OF280 and wanted to know how it looks. You have answered my question- rather nicely I think!

Dave

For the moment, it’s an “armstrong” affair. That may change after Kimberton this year — we’ll see. I’m on pretty tight time constraints to “get ‘er done.”

As far as motorizing, I’ll probably do something home-grown. I’ve got a 2-rpm gear motor I’ve been hanging onto forever, waiting to build a turntable over it. So, that will likely be my motor.

The other option would be to use a stepper motor and controller. Indexing then becomes relatively simple.

BTW, I like phosphor bronze contact better than wire also, more dependable in the long road.

Chuck