--- In [email protected], "David Forsyth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone know of any quality kits for these? <snip> additional suggustions, leads appreciated.
Dave... I had the same interest a few years ago. At that time not much was on the S market, so I did my usual thing -- I looked for something close in the Walther's HO catalog. There it was -- an operating semaphore -- upper quadrant at that. Just what I wanted except it was in the wrong scale. One phone call to Tomar and a brief conversation with the owner gave me the courage to go for it. So I asked him if he would build one for me with a 36% taller pole, but using all the same HO components for everything else. Since those parts were a bit oversize for true HO, they were closer to S. Close enough for me anyway. He asked for six weeks since this was a custom job and charged me the same as the HO semaphore since everything was the same except for the length of brass tubing and piano wire which was trivial. Another possiblility is to build your own out of switch motors, brass tubing, etc. An article for doing this appears in the soft cover book by Kalmbach pertaining to Animation, Lighting, and Special Effects. Forgot the exact title of the book, but that is close enough that you should be able to order it. Good luck...Ed L. The poll results are in....... To REPLY to the list, use REPLY ALL, to reply to the sender, use REPLY. I do NOT know if this works on all e-mail software, but it works on some of the most common ones. Change your membership, change your message settings, use our CALENDAR, view shared files or photos, view the list archives, GO TO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
