Price: £95 – On30, On3, and standard gauge.

SKU: KT315

This is the “come back kid”! I stopped offering this kit 5 years ago, but seems On3 guys still like gallows as well as the historic O scale modelling fraternity.

BRIDGE LENGTH = 16 1/4″. The gallows width and height is sized to take a monster MMI K37. The biggest of the Ks and about the size of small standard gauge locos of the late 1880-1890s

The bridge is not just a bag of sticks. It is built up on a integral jig making for easy alignment. All parts that require angles, cutouts, cross joins are laser cut from  basswood to ensure the correct size, alignment and make assembly straight forward.

Gallows bridge detail includes laser cut square nuts and several sizes of washer as well as stays, stay saddles and stay ties.

The spider is simple and effective. Rather than create a complicated mechanism that costs a lot but cant really be seen, I have “suggested” the spider ring, and this allows me to use KHM’s standard turning plate and pick-up assembly methods within the “spider space”. That way the kit is able to draw on the proven performance of our other pit turntables.

The shallow pit base is made up of 3 rings, carries a support rail around the edge and includes the pitwalls. The pit base of the 54ft version is bulit up from 3 one-piece rings assembly self-jigged with alignment aids.  The pit can be supported by the rim around the top of the wall with a circular hole in the layout top.

The bridge wheel angles are set by the assembly – its almost foolproof! The double-flanged wheels “track” the circle rail without falling off.

Below the pit floor, the turntable is designed to use a GW370 powerful 12V 0.6rpm motor with direct drive of primary shaft turning in oil-bearing bronze bushes. The motor is no longer supplied in the kit, as it is readily available on ebay, but the kit does include the motor mount, shaft coupler, and the motor screws. all you need to buy is the motor – or turn it by hand!

Bridge deck has On3 , On30, and standard gauge options, with planking and bolt holes engraved.

Assembly is straightforward and broken down into sub-assemblies. The kit is packed with this is mind, each sub-assembly having its own pack. Instructions are in pdf format, emailed at time of shipping. If you wish to see them up front – just use the contact me page to ask. no obligation, electrons are free. Thanks.