Building a N Scale Transfer table

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N Scale Transfer table

 I thought that some here may like to see a N Scale Transfer table that I have built out of a DVD head unit, I scrapped an unneeded DVD/CD Player that was given to me, as it was not Digital it was not of use to the owner anymore and was being thrown out. Lots of little screws, cogs, 3 motors and lots of dodads that I can use later, but the prize was the slide table that moves the head that reads the DVD, It's 47mm between the tracks and the tracks are 65mm long.
I used a on/off/on SPDT switch for direction and to run the motor, it will travel from one end to the other with a micro SPDT
switch at each end of the run to turn it off, I have tried it with my Consolidation 2-8-0 and tender and it moves nicely.  The cogs at the side is covered over with a square of corrugated tin [tinfoil] and a control cabin sits on top, inside cogs ect are painted black to hide them.

Regards Jeff.





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Nice bit of reuse there! Looks great.

Mike
Pig Hill Yard - a small Inglenook shunting layout for my boys, in 00.
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That is what I call recycling/reusing unwanted items at it's best.
 Well done Jeff!



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One of our N gauge area group members has  gone for a larger traverser using the mechanism from a scanner, he can manage a loco and 2 or 3 coaches, similar principle, he just thinks big:mutley

Cheers MIKE
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