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Posted: Tue May 28th, 2019 03:31 am

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Since the turntable doesn't want to stay exactly in place,

I installed a brass slide lock, to keep it from wandering away from alignment.

It's a cheap and easy solution.

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Posted: Thu Jun 20th, 2019 11:42 pm

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I wanted to add some final thoughts to this thread.

Cost:
the plate was $3.00, the square brass tubing $5.00,
and estimated cost for the basswood and brass about $7.00,
for a total of $15.00

Not bad for a turntable.
It's located outside so motorizing it, or adding indexing just wouldn't work.

Overall I'm very pleased with how well it works.
Would like to hear from others that may have done something along these lines.

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Posted: Fri Jun 21st, 2019 01:38 pm

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Great idea on the slide lock, I need to do that for my two turntables!

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Posted: Sun Jun 23rd, 2019 12:06 pm

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I wonder if a magnet(s) would work to lock it in place yet not show?

Posted: Sun Jun 23rd, 2019 12:28 pm

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I don't think it would be too hard to use an electromagnet,
like a Peco point motor, to lock in the pin from under the bridge.

Maybe a spring loaded locking pin, that can be released by an electromagnet.

I have very strong electromagnets that were used in telephone exchanges,
from many years ago, that would be ideal.

Will post a pic when able to.

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Posted: Sun Jun 23rd, 2019 07:56 pm

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Peter,

An electromagnet would probably work.

Many years ago I worked for Pacific Bell. Wish I had some of the stuff we were throwing away.

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Posted: Sat Jun 29th, 2019 02:11 pm

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" Many years ago I worked for Pacific Bell.

Wish I had some of the stuff we were throwing away "

Hi Michael

Your vintage B&W turntable is looking GREAT ! :bg:

My LEGENDARY midnight

skip-dive, outside the local cellphone tower, a few years back ...

... was enough to clutter up my workshop for YEARS ! :shocked:

Si.

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Fleischmann's H0 turntable used a spring-driven locking pin,
that engaged with indexing slots in a cog-wheel running along the pit's rim.

It was held back during travel by an electromagnet.

I remember a DIY turntable article in a mag of the early 60's,
where the same principle, albeit pin and holes, was used.

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Posted: Sat Jul 6th, 2019 04:14 pm

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'Indexing' seems to be the subject of many ideas & mods. over the years ! :old dude:

Keep her on the rails ! [whack]

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Posted: Sat Jul 6th, 2019 04:33 pm

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High Tech "indexing" is a neat way to locate a TT...
but I am old school and like me, my TT's are "armstrong" (or fingerstrong) manual jobs.
Of course, my TT's are close to the edge of the layout and are easy to work,
and the sliding "pins" keep the alignment right.
Years ago I used an old ATLAS HO scale turntable on a Texas Outlaw On30 module and it worked great,
even though some guys thought the growling motor/gears upset their hearing chuga chug and woo woo sounds.
Oh well, "you can't please everyone...so you gotta please yourself"-Rick Nelson.

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