Rooster wants some of what Cliff is smoking and has a mouse in his house ( I saw it twice tonight) …TRUTH
Hey Rooster, thanks! I have no idea what the mouse is about, and I finally quite smoking in 2010, but I’ll receive all that as a compliment brutha!!
And you remind me, I haven’t gotten to the weather vane yet…
[edit] Just got it, you’ve seen a mouse twice in your house. I thought you were laying some new PA metaphors on me…
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Cliff can you use double sided tape to stick the thin sheets to a thicker sheet of something to try and stop them lifting while you cut/etch them?
Mick
That’s a VERY interesting idea Mick… thanks!!
I did an inventory of the 3D printed elements to make, and am pleased that it’s not a huge amount. Mainly vents and stack bases, a couple windows and the flagpole parts.
Some of the parts I’d 3D printed on the “test” building will be lasered here, to save time. This includes all the roof and corner trim and the main sign. Almost all the windows and doors were done a few years ago, cast from resin.
The ore bin chutes aren’t designed, but will be mainly 3DP also.
Cliff
Hey y’all. Today I’ve been doing final cementing of the main pieces.
Part of this involved cementing in the clear window glazing panels. Using painter’s tape on the exterior to position the pieces, I applied the cement from the interior side. I’m leaving the paper on both sides of the “glazing” until it has to be removed. And, it serves as the masking for the interior black spray job I need to do, for light blocking.
The other work involved running over each joint again with high-viscosity cement, and slathering thicker cement on the base joints and roof valleys & peaks.
Design of the ore bin details is almost done, which mainly involves the gate / chute assemblies.
More on these later.
===>Cliffy
Hot dang Cliff! working chutes and all. Motorized or self cranked ? (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)
Hey Mr. Hollywood, always a pleasure to hear from ya!!
They won’t be motorized, but the tiny robots that some out and crank them are, haha! But since you asked, the gates themselves are just cosmetic, non-functioning. But I’ll try to make the chutes manually positionable.
Cliff Jennings said:
Hey Mr. Hollywood, always a pleasure to hear from ya!!
They won’t be motorized, but the tiny robots that some out and crank them are, haha! But since you asked, the gates themselves are just cosmetic, non-functioning. But I’ll try to make the chutes manually positionable.
Sure let all that fancy gear work go to waste, and then when you start really getting into this build you’ll have to do the tear out and redo them routine. I tried to warn you but that’s Ok. (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)(http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
It is looking dang good by the way in case you thought I was just passing through
Trying… not… to… give way to… the Big H… OK, I’ll do it! (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)
I separated the gate from its rails, and the gears should / maybe / sorta work. If the parts were hi-res from Shapeways, there would be no question; but I’m going to attempt to print all this on my el cheapo 3D printer. Here’s the parts for the gates/chutes:
Those flat panels near the top, I’ll probably 2D cut. But all else needs to be 3DP.
Here’s how the assemblies would fit into things.
Lots of parts to print! And lots of little 1/16" brass rod bits to cut for these assemblies.
But Mr. H, for you, I’ll be sure to at least try to make those gates work. (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)
Next up in the build is painting the core modules where needed. Mainly it’s for light blocking, but also it’s for exposed base perimeter and under-eave areas. And misc exposed edges on the roof and base parts, where not covered by overlay of some sort. The masking took me all day, and it was very pleasant time spent. Listening to jazz, taping, wrapping, cutting, taping more, etc. Loved it.
Oh no…
I was trying to replace a photo, but needed to delete the prior one to upload its replacement. And I hit the wrong Delete icon, and blew away the entire image folder. Wow, bummed. But I’ll start trying to rebuild it.
Later…
I’m about half way there to rebuilding the photo folder, but need to handle the remainder at a later time. This is the second time I’ve made this mistake… Anyway, my lesson learned is (in addition to being even more careful with that Delete button) that I need to break major build-folders up into smaller chunks. At least that will limit the damage I can do to myself.
Back to what I was doing today, here’s the result of 6+ hours of masking effort.
Next weekend will be the my next opportunity to paint all this. Between outdoor spraying / drying sessions, my plan is to laser the sheathing.
Thanks for viewing,
===>Cliffy
Cliff Jennings said:
Oh no…
I hit the wrong Delete icon, and blew away the entire image folder. Wow, bummed.
So you was rapping? Gee, I didn’t think us older white guys could really do that…
Reminds me of
Nice work Cliff!
You guys kill me, haha! (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)
And thanks for the Thanks Rooster! Speaking of which, I’m trying to get serious about that weather vane Sean brought up. I’ve been looking for some historical excuse for it, because I may get pinged next October when I give a short talk to the V&T Historical Society on making this model. Not a big deal, but it’s always nice to have at least a small bit of justification. And here’s the closest I can find.
If you look very close, you’ll see a rooster atop that thing. It’s hard to see, because it’s pointed straight away from the camera.
===>Cliffy
Cliff Jennings said:
You guys kill me, haha! (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)
If you look very close, you’ll see a rooster atop that thing. It’s hard to see, because it’s pointed straight away from the camera.
===>Cliffy
Yup, i see it…(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
Nope …I don’t see it …HOWEVER what I DO SEE is Ken in a dress down front wearing a cowboy hat in his youth and I ALSO see ALL those stairs running up the roof line that CANNOT be left out of this spectacular model!
Cliff Jennings said: I’ve been looking for some historical excuse for it, because I may get pinged next October when I give a short talk to the V&T Historical Society on making this model.
Get the facts correct before the presentation Cliff !
Wasn’t there and didn’t happen so don’t try to change history !
N-S-E-W?
I promise Rooster, I won’t try to change history. Wish I could! (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)
But while working on acquiring that superpower, I’ve also been trying to appease certain others (you know who you are – Sean, Chris) who’ve forced me to make a dang weathervane, history or no history.
The Ozark product seems ok (thanks Chris), but they publish no info, and I want better control on style and dimensions anyway. And I want this thing to function. Also, I’d like to plant the weathervane on other buildings in the future, and be able to re-print the roosters and other parts when they blow off or get fallen on by something. So, custom design.
I started with hunting down weathervane designs on Amazon and other sites, and landed on this one because it seemed sort of, I don’t know, cocky.
I’ve begun modeling this thing, and have gotten thus far.
Solidworks choked on filleting the feathers, despite the 2 shameful hours I spent on it. The remedy though, after the 3D printing, will be Mr. Dremel.
Sir Rooster will have a .125 brass tube bushing, and a .094" staff. Other details will accompany him, mainly the E-W-N-S signage and the base.
I cannot believe I’ve blown a whole evening on this 1.5" piece, and it’s only halfway designed… Sean, you started this… (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)
CJ