I used Dave’s photos below to guide me through building a hoist for my mine, a hoist which may or may not actually be part of the actual mine, but this hoist is too cool looking a structure to pass up, so it’ll be part of the minehead whether it’s supposed to be or not!
I put a lot of photos up, probably too many, and if I’ve gone over the limit of trying people’s patience, let me know! If you want to skip all the build photos, go to the last few pictures and you’ll see the more or less finished hoist.
I still haven’t figured out how to connect the winding drum to the drum machinery building; presumably there needs to be an axle coming out of the drum machine house connecting to the drum axle? I have no idea yet. Any suggestions will be appreciated. The cable on the drum to the wheel will be braided picture hanging wire. I probably won’t put that on until I connect this hoist up to the actual mine I built for the Challenge.
I got off to a false start without the correct angles and proportions, so I started over on getting the main framing right. I think time spent in the very beginning is critical because if you don’t get the proportions and sizes and scales right in the first place, no amount of detailing will correct it. I’m still not exactly happy with the proportions on the mindehead I built. I think the back roof should have been steeper at a bare minimum, and the width isn’t right. Modelling seems even less forgiving than painting actually!
This is the start of the ladder, and I took a tire and rim off of a broken 1:12 Model T to use for the hoist cable wheel, called a sheave? I think? I don’t know how convincing these ladders are but I can make them very quickly anyway.
I STILL NEED TO GET ME ONE OF THEM PIN NAILERS!!!
This is the assembled frame for the cable wheel, along with that odd triangular frame which is on top of the prototype from Dave’s picture. I’m sure it is to support electrical wire/cable just as Dave suggested in his comments to my Challenge build log.
This is the start of the drum and the hoist drum machine shed. I made the shed out of cardboard and glued the wood siding to it. Simple.
This picture demonstrates the truth of the phrase “You gotta do what you gotta do!” I needed a weight to hold the tin on the roof and the roof to the shed structure, so I grabbed the heaviest handy object.
And here’s a few pictures of where I’m at now with this build, more or less finished, probably not:
Thanks for taking a look and for any suggestions you might have. If anything doesn’t look right, or could look better, let me know for sure.
