More turntable work

After I glued the sub-deck to the bridge, I sanded the entire assy using 180 grit paper on top of glass. This got rid of the high spots and gave me a nice flat area to glue the deck to.

Made a new deck from Northeastern scribed siding (3/32 scr 1/32 thick) part no 332scr132P.
Used Walthers Goo to attach the deck to the bridge. Don't forget to drill 2 holes for the wires to the rail

Here are the new bridge support wheels

I re-attached the weights to the bridge

 

The photo below shows the TT and roundhouse. Still need to add rail and handrails to the TT

The coaling tower will be to the left.

 

 

Taking apart the N scale turntable

Taking apart the N gauge TT
The instructions are pretty straight forward and I had the TT apart in about 5 minutes.

First, the counterweights come out

Then the brackets holding the wheels

The other end

3 screws hold the deck

New sides have been attached. Before I glued these on, I used a sanding stick along the original deck sides to make sure that they were smooth. I had already painted and weathered this sometime time ago

I sanded the top of the bridge, avoid hitting the circuit card. I covered it with tape before sanding.

Here I've added the underdeck pieces on. You need to cut this into 2 sections where the wires come out of the bridge.

I was thinking about replacing the top of the deck with real wood. When I checked the kit piece against the original deck, horrors! the kit piece is too freaking short! Ugh!!! I guess the thinking is over, I need to use real wood after all......

The kit piece is laying on top of the N scale bridge and you can see it's about 1/4 inch or so too short!