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Greg Procter   wrote:
>"video guy - www.locoworks.com" wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> I'm just curious, does anyone manufacture a turntable for O scale?  I
>> don't recall ever seeing one.
>
>I doubt that there's a big enough market - although Heljan is apparently
>doing good business in the UK with O gauge.

I've seen kits advertised on the Gauge O Guild gazette: range of sizes
from 42' up to 70', IIRC, and a range of types. I vauguely seem to recall
one of the tinplate-revivalist firms (ACE, maybe?) offering one in 
ready-to-use form, but I'd not swear to that. I don't //think// anyone
does a ready-to-use one in finescale O..

>Converting HO turntables to O gauge wouldn't be too hard if you want a
>short one.

Certainly that woudl work fine for a 40-some' turntable (in O). It's 
probably the route I'm going to go down, given that the biggest things I'm 
going to want to turn on it are 6-wheel engines + 4-wheel tenders.

-- 
Andy Breen ~ 	Not speaking on behalf of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth
		Feng Shui: an ancient oriental art for extracting
		 money from the gullible (Martin Sinclair)

Andrew Robert Breen wrote:
> 
>> Converting HO turntables to O gauge wouldn't be too hard if you want a
>> short one.
> 
> Certainly that woudl work fine for a 40-some' turntable (in O). It's 
> probably the route I'm going to go down, given that the biggest things I'm 
> going to want to turn on it are 6-wheel engines + 4-wheel tenders.

    Use an HO turntable as a sub-base for the mechanism and build the O 
scale on top to whatever size you need.

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Rick Jones wrote:
> 
> Andrew Robert Breen wrote:
> >
> >> Converting HO turntables to O gauge wouldn't be too hard if you want a
> >> short one.
> >
> > Certainly that woudl work fine for a 40-some' turntable (in O). It's
> > probably the route I'm going to go down, given that the biggest things I'm
> > going to want to turn on it are 6-wheel engines + 4-wheel tenders.
> 
>     Use an HO turntable as a sub-base for the mechanism and build the O
> scale on top to whatever size you need.
> 
> --

I've done this with an Arnold N gauge TT for my HO layout after building
several nasty TTs from scratch.
The only downsides are initial cost (I got it cheap) and that it needs
careful mounting to cut down the 'mech in plastic" noise.
It works perfectly every time!

Regards,
Greg.P.

Andrew Robert Breen wrote:
> In article ,
> Greg Procter   wrote:
>> "video guy - www.locoworks.com" wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm just curious, does anyone manufacture a turntable for O scale?  I
>>> don't recall ever seeing one.

Getting yo yjr message late.

But check Bowser.  They do make O scale turn talbes.

<http://bowser-trains.com/oscale/turntables/turntables.htm>

Howard Garner