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Repair Shop Update - Line Shafts Installed

Modeling
#1

I haven’t had much time to work on the repair shed lately, but I did get the overhead line shafts for the machine shop installed this weekend. For those unfamiliar with line shafts, it was the method used to power many different types of machinery from a single power source. A series of pulleys and belts was used to send the power wherever needed. Here is a view of the overhead system. It is upside down on the workbench, sitting on a piece of 2" x 4".

Here is a close-up of one set of pulleys. I made the simulated leather belts from quilter’s masking tape, painted brown.

The board sticking up is the shifter that was thrown to move the belt striker from side to side. This allowed the workers to move the belt between the idle pulley to the drive pulley in order to turn the machine on and off.

Here is the assembly mounted on the machine shop. The clamps and temporary support posts are holding things in place while the glue dries.

Now I have to thread the final drive belts down to the individual pieces of equipment. More to come later.

Bob

#2

Awesome detail! Please keep us posted.

#3

Wow!

#4

Very nice. Great craftsmanship.

Tom

#5

Marvelous! I hope to see that in Fine Scale Modeler sometime.

#6

A mazing. Keep up the good work.

#7

Awesome. Dd you scratch build all the metal parts too?

#8

Wow very nice.

#9

Jon,

I made the shafts and striker linkages from 3/32" and 1/16" brass rods. The pulleys and shaft hangers are white metal castings from various Western Scale Models kits (now called Wild West Scale Model Builders,)

http://www.westernscalemodels.com/Machinery/Machinery.htm

The light fixtures and conduits were made per my post on LED Lighting Receptacles.

Bob

#10

Holy carp! This is going to be one sweet model!

#11

Holy Catfish Batman did you see that awesome detailed work? That Bob Guy is really good at doing detailed modeling. Us mortals could only hope to meet such a modeler and hope to shake hands with him, hoping that some of that skill would transfer into our hands.
Great Job Bob

#12

Great work, that will look great with the machines are connected.