Keep up the good work, LION! One of the very real but subtle joys of this hobby is the opportunity to take items that are ordinary and transform them into working, believable representations of other things. Coffee stirrers that come with meals that I would eat anyway, have found their way into gondola loads and they stand in nicely for water mains under repair.
My wife chided me the other day because I look at the trash before depositing it in the waste can to see if there ia anything I can use on the layout.
Joe Staten Island West
Lion, I like the captured movement of the speeding subway train.
regards, Peter
Even more nifty! At work we have wooden coffee stirrers. They are probably 12" wide in HO scale and form good fence boards, glue applicators (when cut) and the outboard planks at a wooden level crossing.
I will have to look for these two-hole plastic ones. Very promising.
Can't just be LION around when there is so much work to do...
Looks like those coffee stirrers are useful for many things. Just might have to pick up a box and see what I can do with them. At the rate I drink coffee, if I used them for their intended purpose, a box would last a lifetime.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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Don H.
No. The black plastic is Diamond brand coffed stirrers found in Walmart. The nice thing about them is that they are dual channel so if you are building light poles or signals or something you have to electrically independant chanells.
Apparently a 555 degree soldering iron does not phaze them. They are clearly made for High Octane Coffee.
It is not copper wire, but rather copper clad mild steel wire, sold by the pound as welding rod. A one pound tube contains 36 3' pices and costs about $7.
LION uses it EVERYWHERE!
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I like the copper wire column and beams. I will find a way to use that idea. Maybe platform shelters? Is the black insulation made from heat shrink tubing?
LION is working on tunnel of him.