This is how it looked with out the wings!
This is how it looks now!
Comments please! Thanks Sean
Nice. Do the wings work? What are they made from?
I used some brass tubing(square) to slide into the bracket that is behind the curve of the blade,then it goes into the stake pocket on the flat car!
Inside that is a smaller size so all I have to do is pull that out(like a hindge pin)and they come off!
Styreen and some hindges used for planes!!
Then it’s putty and paint!!(makes the job what it aint!)
Another hindge behind with some styreen that will rest against the last window
I’ll try as soon as it snows!
Will have to widen the tunell!
What did you use to prop the wings open when plowing?
Another hindge behind with some styreen that will rest against the last window
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I used a cut down Speed Stick deodorant container to adjust the wings on mine. Rods run from the deodorant holder to the wings and are adjusted by turning the knurled knob on the bottom of the container. The wings are held on with plastic aircraft aileron hinges.
I’m going to try the KISS method!
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In the closed position!
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Opened
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To much rain to try out!! Sean
Sean -
Did you ever get a chance to test the wings in snow? My plow won’t make a path big enough for my 1:20 stuff. Need to come up with something to widen the trenches.
Jon I tried it in the other storm but was wet ,so hard to push with the wings out. After plowing the line with out the wings, I plowed again with the wings out to clean up! With the wings being held the kiss way they work ok untill you back up. I’ll try to use wire to hold it against the outriggers.
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I’m working on a blower next!!
nice. After the rain we got today I’m thinking I need a outboard motor to put on the trians.
Sean,
That looks great! Your that close and if you want to use the KISS method, why not 2 small eyelets one on the wing and one on the side under the window. Then make a brass rod with a hole in both ends and drop cotters in either eyelet?
Ken,
Thanks for the idea on R/C hinges…may come in handy someday. Now I need to go dig my planes out and look at there mechanical workings. 
I have Tiny Pearce’s plow that I should try running out on the line. Im pondering how to best do a good rotary, too, in 1;20, that doesnt look too stupid, but will work on the heavy wet snow we get.
Bob McCown said:Functional and accurate might be mutually exclusive words when referring to rotary plows for scale railroads. I really liked Marty Cozad's approach from a couple of years ago. He used the impeller from a vacuum cleaner mated to a cordless drill motor. He built up a housing with a chute and mounted the whole thing on the front of a cut down FA body. There is probably a thread over on MLS in the archive on how he built it. I think he did a seminar on it at ECLSTS a few years ago too. I remember seeing it in person there.
I have Tiny Pearce's plow that I should try running out on the line. Im pondering how to best do a good rotary, too, in 1;20, that doesnt look too stupid, but will work on the heavy wet snow we get.
For steam era you could use the same idea, but mount it on a modified box car, and then get a tender to put behind it.
Well, Im not really concerned with accuracy, but I dont want something like the 2-blade wacky thing that I’ve seen around.
Somebody illegally pitched a kids electric scooter in my dumpster about a year ago. So I pulled it out and gutted the thing thinking that is what I was gonna make …never got done as I don’t know the inner workings of one? I thought it was just to blow snow but from what Jon wrote it sucks it in? I think I saw pictures of Marty’s working his line in GR awhile back? Now you got my gears turning!!!
This is from memory and my mad cow has been acting up, so forgive me if I get it wrong 
The rotary blade is basically a fan. Marty used the impeller from a vacuum cleaner because it was the right size and had a good pitch. It does not suck the snow in like a vacuum, but rater pitches it out from the chute when the plow is pushed into the snow. Marty found or made a housing for the impeller then created a chute to direct the snow up and away from the tracks. At the time I think he said that he wished that he had designed in a way for the chute to change direction. His design throws snow to one side only - it can’t be changed. The prototype rotaries had a way to move the chute from side to side of the fan blade.
So what you are building is basically a single stage snow thrower. Anyone who has used snow throwers knows that a double stage works much better, but that design is awfully difficult at this scale.
Thanks Jon…I spent last night looking at inner workings of snowblowers and it’s all your fault. Man that is gonna be a complex build!
I’m working on it!
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I’m a little stuck , the shoot. I’ve asked Marty for his imput. Sean
Pretty cool project, Sean.
It took me a second or two to figure it out, but I think you meant “chute”.
I’ve seen a rotating chute on a home-brew snow blower built back in the late 1960’s.
See if I can do this in ascii.
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- star rotates clockwise, throws to right
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- star rotates CCW, throws to left.
Pivot point of chute is between the diagonal lines.
The ascii diagram shows a chute rotation of about 120 degrees. The real snowblower’s chute only rotated about 90 degrees.
Hope this helps.
Sincerely,
Joe Satnik
Hi sean,
That looks like a great start on another new project. Before you are done you will have a complete compliment of snow fighting equipment. You are making me jealous.