Picking up the final night of the build, the boys in the shops built some cribing to locate and stabilize the Holy Water barrels. The rounded notches for the barrels were made using a half round file angled about 15-30 degrees.
These were assemblye together with some cross braces to create a frame to mount to the car. Titebond II did fine for the construction here.
Next I drilled .028 holes in the cross members for jewelry eyes as anchor points for the binding chain to retain the barrels. These holes were enlarged on the bottom of the cross member to allow for a spot of thick ACC. (Sorry for the picture quality.) The elelets and chain were on hand from a logging project (still in process somewhere in the shop). The barrels were attached to the cribbing with thick ACC, then the chains were fit over the barrels and eyelets were ACC’d to the cross member.
The rubber bands were used to hold the barrels in place while the thick ACC set up and allow me to continue to move forward adding the chains. The eyelet extensions were then trimmed off the bottom of the cribbing.
The last item was to locate the cribbing and barrels on the car. Following are some shots of the completed car.
Well folks, the build is finally over, and the shops have delivered a fantastic Holy Water delivery vehicle for Fred’s Distillery. She is a six kegger design which should keep a crew happy for several days.
This was a fun and challenging build. Dave’s base kit was superb. Athought my hardboard part wasn’t quite perfect, it was easily replaced with center sills. Otherwise the fit was great and an easy kit to assembly. Dave’s extra effort on his instructions were fantastic. I had several interesting challenges, starting off with the barrels themselves, made from caster wheels from an old bed frame. The ‘heads’ of the barresl were made from ABS plastic recovered from work space shelf units thrown away by my wife’s former employer. All the other wooden bits were of in house source.
The car color was chosed from left over craft paint from a project with one of my grandsons. He got to choose the paint for his project and I chose the Apple Green in honor of a former member. The barrels color was chosen from a wall of craft paints at Hobby Lobby.
Decals are home printed on Testors decal paper on my Epson printer. To my surprise the printer even had a paper setting to print the 1/2 sheet (5.5 x 8.5) decal paper. Saved me a bunch of headache. To keep compatibility with the Distillery’s other equipment the car is fitted with Kadee #1 couplers, a first for me. The trucks are USAT arch bar truck frames fitted with Bachmann 24mm wheel sets (in stock). This made coupler height adjustment a non issre.
Chains holding barrels are jewelry materials found at Michaels or Hobby Lobby.
Costing purchased for this build is as follows:
4.00 Microset Decal Solution
4.00 Microsol Decal Solution
7.00 Kadee 820 #1 Coupler
6.00 Paint for Barrels
2.00 One sheet decal paper
2.50 One half roll 1/8" wide pin striping tape
