cudaken wrote: Pete and others, thanks for the answers! I knew about the walthers 933-3518 and 21 inches would more than fix the problem. Just hopped to stay with the orginal style if I could. Other ideas are welcome. Cuda Ken
Pete and others, thanks for the answers! I knew about the walthers 933-3518 and 21 inches would more than fix the problem. Just hopped to stay with the orginal style if I could. Other ideas are welcome.
Cuda Ken
Ken,
Can you post a picture of what you are looking for ? I have a section assembled and painted but never used conveyor but I am not sure it is the right one from the kit. I can't verify the part numbers since it's been cut off the molds. If it is what you are looking for I can send it to you and you can just repaint it to your needs. I replaced my entire conveyor with the 933-3518 set for similar reasons.
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I modified one of these kits to take the conveyor down a different side than what Walthers provided, but it has been so long ago that I don't recall having to use any additional materials that were not already in the kit. A picture of it can be found on the Cochise & Western layout here:
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Someone makes a pair of rollers that you can run heavy aluminum foil or soda can metal through to make corrugated siding, but I don't remember who sells it. Micro-Mark, perhaps?
A new company called Clever Models sells corrugated steel in new, rusty, and very rusty types that is actually printed on paper. Walthers 2008 HO catalog page 910, items 217-103, 132, and 133. Evergreen and Plastruct make vinyl sheets with corrugated metal patterns. K&S Engineering makes real metal corrugated siding. And there are probably others.
Go to your local hobby shop and look through their Walthers HO catalog scratch building supplies section near the back of the book.
I hate Rust
C Ken
Check the general question section. Walthers 933-3518 modern conveyor.
Pete
I pray every day I break even, Cause I can really use the money!
I started with nothing and still have most of it left!
'Cuda:
Also, I have had fair luck using courrogated packing materials for some fragile items as metal siding in HO scale. I usually save packing I find that is finely made (the stuff in lightbulb packages is pretty course, and would be okay in O scale, but looks too bulky for HO). I have attempted to hand-fabricate metal siding out of soda can metal, which is worked very easily, with only minimal success. Achieving the uniform courrogations is something I haven't figure out yet (but one of these days, maybe I will, and I'll certainly pass on the method if I do!)
I have made several long conveyors for industrial models in the past, and have used strip wood as the structural component and a variety of coverings. Usually scale courrogated metal siding for the sides (this is what New River Mining is covered with?) and the same stock for the roof, or sometimes painted fabric or black sandpaper to represented a tar roof. Conveyors are often added at different times as plant functions change or expand, so don't worry too much about having the new conveyor match the rest of the plant perfectly. I would consider saving the existing "too short" conveyor in the parts box, and building the new longer conveyor competely from scratch so you don't have to worry about matching the existing conveyor siding and roof. The new conveyor may appear slightly mismatched when you set it in place, but that mismatch is actually very realistic, and it won't take your eye long to accept it as a good capital improvement at the mine.
Just my perspective from working at a large pulp mill for several years, but necessity at that plant was definitely driving the train - some parts of the plant had been in operation for 70 years, and the machinery was a conglomeration of old and new. I suspect a large mine might be similar.
I have found the New River Mining Company by Walthers is made backwards to the way I needed it. I need the upper level conveyor to go over the coal loading bends to reach the mountain. I have filled the upper opening that the model came with.
Kit orginal conveyor is apx 11.5 inches long. I need around 14 to 16 inches when the mountain is done.
Do any of you kind folks that happen to have left over New River conveyor parts be willing to let them go? Part numbers I am looking for are, 41 X 2, 43 X 2, and 44 X 1. I will be happy to send you something for your time.
If no one has extra parts, any idea to find kit bashing, corrugated sections that will look somewhat like the originals that came in the kit?
Other ideas are welcomed as well. Pictures of your fixes would be GREAT.
I hope no one minds if I list this posting in different section. Looking for maximum exposure.