Our train club here at Penney Retirement Community has a Bascule Beidge #033-3070 that has
been laying around for some time and the plans for putting it together have been misplaced. I
would like to assemble the bridge and use it on our new layout. Does anyone have a set of these
plans and can we beg, borrow or steal them?
If that’s a Walthers kit, I believe that the number should be 933-3070. I suggest that you contact Walthers to see if they can get you a copy of the instructions if you don’t get any takers here.
bridge,
Send me your email address on a PM and I will scan and email the instructions to you.
Be sure to check out my thread on building the bascule bridge. Here is the link:
http://cs.trains.com/TRCCS/forums/t/186830.aspx
Rich
Just a note( for my info also)
BASCULE: (NOUN) a structure or device in which one end is counterbalanced by the other (or a weight),
''bascule" used as a noun is very rare.
i dont have the plans however i may be of some help look at the movie of my bridge moving it usually runs a lot slower than in the movie shown below… look on you tube or look at the model railroader readers videos… user submited videos
walthers lift bridge with very long union pacific ho scale intermodal train.avi
check out the movie of my lift bridge when i assembled it i followed the instructions and everthing went together easily
do not use the switch supplied i just wired the power directly to the motor and i use a switch to raise and lower you can even wire it to a decoder as explained in the kalmbach book dcc projects perhaps use the decoder to get the signals to change
the lifting arms where thay pass thru the slide cut styrene one inch long and thin enough to go into the slide this will stop the slide from tilting and binding on the lifting arms
the balence weight… i glued in 8 oz of lead fishing weights this is a perfect balence to the lift section and the track / rail
glue the track… i used a full length of peco and glued check rails inplace when the glue… epoxy… has dried hard cut it with a dremel cutter
i hope this is of some help peter