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Great idea for using what you have to create something…neatly done…
Fred Mills, BSc, BS, SD (Hons) said:
you are, or you’re…
Thank you Fred. As an aspiring author I am embarrassed by my spelling and grammar. When I concentrate on it I do fine, I actually am complemented on my writing ability by my grad school instructors. But It is thanks in large part to the modern word processor catching my mistakes.
I will hire a dang good proof reader for my book.
EATS, SHOOTS & LEAVES.
A VERY good book for aspiring writers and others!
Ross Mansell said:
EATS, SHOOTS & LEAVES.
A VERY good book for aspiring writers and others!
Wot Ross sed.
Devon, to answer the original question, they are the bolsters out of one or another freight truck. Looking at the ends of the bolster, I would guess they are one of the sprung trucks, maybe a Delton, occasionally available on eBay relatively inexpensive.
Bob C.
I use card craft boxes for building up the shapes, and stick on gems (from craft shops) for rivets for a number of locos including my Rowland Emett locohttp://largescalecentral.com/albums/crackingjob/12219
and even an old toffee tine for a coach
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Graeme Price said:
OK here goes
As requested pictures of my gravel tubs with rivets made from greeting card embellishments.
Evidently they are known as pearls and come in a large range of sizes I use the smallest ones.
The tubs house the batteries and motor control board for an old Roundhouse “Big Hustler”.
The motor control is an LED dimmer with with picaxe reverse as described on Dabe Bodnar’s
site
The tubs are from an article in an NZ online newsletter called the " Garden Whistle".
http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/gap/Gravel%20tub.JPG
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I just bought some of those pearls. The rivets on my tender (Bachmann ten wheeler) are taller than the pins. The smallest pearls are almost a perfect match to the profile of the ones already on the tender. Top row is stock ones on the tender the lower ones are the pearls
Ok found another recycling item or at least a detail part from an unlikely place.
This came out of a bag of candy. A party pinata filler 2# bag with toys and candy. It is 1 1/8 inches in diameter and 1 1/2 inches tall. It has a handle on the side that will be removed. Not exactly a scale drum but a neat cheap detail part.
Well I wanted to share this recycling/tip I just came up with. I walked past my wood cart and say an old piece of egg crate lighting. you now the stuff made of plastic in little squares.
Well anyway I instantly thought of a multi-pained window. So I started cutting. A 6 X 4 piece for a 24 panel industrial window.
It was still too thick for my liking so I took it to my band saw and set up a tall fence and re-sawed it
Now I have two for the price of one. They clean up nice with a file, removing the melted plastic left behind by the saw. They will still be a little thick to be prototypical but backed with some clear plastic such as one gets from those stupid unopenable packages and i think it will make for a great cheap multi-pain window.
A good idea Devon to cut them in half.
For industrial windows I use hardware clothe with 1/2 by 1/2 squares and put that over a piece of plexi to make a window. In this photo they are painted.
On the topic of recycling the grey tanks on the roof to the left are yogurt cups.
Todd,
I was actually looking for some hardware cloth to use because you had shown that trick earlier. I really liked the look of it. I was resolved to buy it when I saw this egg crate.
I was by one of the local $ stores a while back and saw they were replacing the Fritos display racks. I asked what they were going to do with them, they said going into the dumpster. Hating to see them trashed I asked if I could take them, they said take them and I did.
The big ones hold 4 big hauler sized cars or more smaller ones. Amazingly the wire in the racks are 45mm apart.
Keep an eye out, very handy storage.
Nice score
Dennis Serrine uses a similar idea:
Score! For Dave!
Not so much a recycle but more along the lines buying out of the railway environment.
I am building some boxcars and am scratch building the bogies ( see my first attempt at scratch building thread), for bushes for the axles to run in I am using eyelets that are use in making cloth belts by home sewers.
They have an inside diameter that is slightly larger than my wheel axles and are cheap to replace if they wear out which should be along time as I have lubricated them with lock graphite.
I take apart old computers, VCRs, DVD Players, etc and there is a wealth of gears, motors, push buttons, connectors, small screws, brackets, flat cables, etc that I use all the time also I raid the wife’s supply of long round pointed appitizer tooth picks which are great for cheap glue applicators, thin painter’s tape cut into 3/32 strips and wrapped around brass rod to simulate lagging
Good ideas and an excellent way to stretch the modeling budget, I also am a scavenger of material for my hobby efforts. Another source of valuable items is old electronic devices, such as, computers, lap tops, VCRs, phones, radios, cd, dvd, and tape players, you can find micro switches, small DC motors and gears, micro push buttons, small screws all types both metric and US, small brackets and angles, plastic formed pieces that can be used to represent various mechanical items