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- From: js@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Jon Sawyer)
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:24:21 GMT
- Subject: Re: Questions about turntables
- Message-ID: <45460021@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Loveland, CO
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- Newsgroups: rec.models.railroad
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- In rec.models.railroad, I wrote:
-
- > Also, at what angles are roundhouse stalls typically arranged? As the
- > space I have for my roundhouse is rather limited, I'd like to minimize
- > the distance between the TT and the roundhouse, at the expense of
- > increasing the angle between stalls. Are there kits available that
- > allow me to do this? Or is there a "standard" roundhouse stall angle?
-
- I'd like to clarify this a bit. I'm interested in specific
- information on roundhouse kits regarding the angle between stalls and
- the radius from the center of the turntable to the front wall of the
- roundhouse. These quantities are related; the larger one gets, the
- smaller the other, in general.
-
- I am looking for a kit that tends toward the "small radius, large
- angle" end of the spectrum. I have looked at various kits in a local
- hobby store; they do not print this information on the box. The sales
- people didn't know, either.
-