Still going through my N-Scale storage containers and found this manual turntable and can't find any info on installation. Not sure if I will actual install it right now, but I would like too down the road. I am totally confused unless I lost some instructions. What are the electrical parts to get power to the track on the turntable. I just want to operate it manually one day. I am totally confused. I think I keep the only sheet of instructions that came with it and can't even find a YouTube video on this old thing on how to install. Any help is appreciated. Sorry about the bad light but you get the idea!
If I remember right you should get two brass rings in the kit that slide on a shaft feeding through the middle of the pit. These get soldered to wires feeding up through the center of this shaft and connected to the track. they are only about 1/4 of an inch in diameter. Then you should have some other metal strips that are used as wipers to touch these rings as the pit turns. Works like crud. In the past i have used what is called a phone cord de- tangler used on old cord phones. should still be available at radio shack or other retailers and this give you 4 gold connections that swivel. good luck
Berkshire Junction used to sell a motorizing kit for this turntable. I think it used a 1 rpm stepper motor Saw it in operation at a train show. It was not indexed to the track but I was able to line up the rails by sight. I think they took it off their website when Walthers came out with the 160 foot turntable. You can contact them to see if they have any laying around.
Thanks, yeah I know now it's crap, but I didn't years ago when I bought it I have all the parts in the instructions after looking at it again. Apparently I bought some extra parts for it, see extra plastic parts, I guess they go to this, who knows it's been so long since I bought this thing. Maybe at least in the future I can use it as an abandoned, or closed turntable, no longer in operation. Man I wish I knew what those extra plastic parts are for? Looks like they would fit it. I also think I got a stepper motor with my Arduino kit, that maybe I can just mess with trying to get it to turn. So apparently originally if you got the stepper motor, you could adjust it to line up. I also have the Corner Stone Union City Roundhouse which is assembled. Apparently I had big plans that never happened That Kato Turntable is awesome. Give them bags of money and have fun. That thing is sweet! What is that clicking noise?
