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How-to Library: Building a turntable, Part 3 – Installing the motor mechanism

By Rene Schweitzer | October 11, 2020

| Last updated on March 16, 2021


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David has now arrived at the stage where it’s time to install the drive mechanism into his assembled O scale laser-cut wood turntable kit. Follow along as he shares his process for fitting the 3-volt can motor and reduction gear used to put the structure into motion.

One thought on “How-to Library: Building a turntable, Part 3 – Installing the motor mechanism

  1. There could have been a pair of wood square “keepers” with holes that would have locked the contacts into place so they would not work back through the turntable pit base plate.

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