Diamond scale turntable!

[irocinblue89]

So, I am very fortunate to do business with the LHS that produces and sells Diamond scale products. I have been a frequent visitor of this place for 3 years now. They are great people and if I dare say, good friends. Well I was able to help/watch the building process of my 134' turntable here are some pics:

They start with a dense wood base. They install staples in it to hold the Portland cement to the wood. They started the first few then let me take over.

 

[irocinblue89]

Next, we washed the mold and added the center piece to line everything up.

 

[irocinblue89]

Mixed up the cast and poured it in.

 

[irocinblue89]

I skipped a step intentionally to keep something secret as per their request. After the "secret step" we set the turntable base into the mold and started to set it up for weights.

 

[irocinblue89]

After x amount of time we flipped it over and removed the mold. That was a very delicate process! I felt like I was going to break it. We cleaned it up and let it finish setting.

 

[irocinblue89]

Next will be all of the castings!

 

[beiland]

What happened?, you guys disappeared?

 

[goscrewyourselves]

Great to see something being made like this ... and looking forward to seeing the remainder of the process.

 

[beiland]

I ran across this subject thread as I just remembered that I had a whole cut-out, built-up scene I had purchased from an estate. It has this 130' version of the Diamond Scale turntable along with a 5 stall Korber roundhouse.

I'll likely be listing it for sale soon as I have a big move planned. I'll post some photos soon.

 

[montanan]

These are great turntables. I have built a few of them and they are easy to put together. I have a 130 footer put away somewhere that was supposed to go in a friends layout, but never made it because he unfortunately passed away before we needed it. I had thought of using it on my layout but because of the space it took up and my limited real estate, had to put in a 90 foot Walthers turntable.