Hello all,
Between the honey do list and punching out the unfinished parts of my newly built shed. I started scratch building a friggin huge HO structure.All of the walls are completed as is most of the roof structure.The door ways have been cut out along with the man doors.Covered the entire structure in corugated metal siding.
I'm building the pac-man type BOF vents right now and then the down comer pipe. The whole structure so far has about 32 pieces,that need to be hot glued together.When I say this structure is huge.....huge being the key word. It measures a whooping four feet long by two feet ,six inches by three feet high. It might be even wider,once I add the converter side.
I did plan on installing my scratch built morgan 400 ton ladle crane inside and easy to see,but changed my mind. I had to cut a piece of plywood just for the BOF,leaving just enough room for the track work inside and out.
Now...tonight if I can get my wife to lend a hand helping me glue all this stuff together,should have pictures in the next few days to share.
I need to send a special thanks to Ken Larson,a member of this group. He gave me some of the dimentions of this building.With out your help Ken I couldn't have made it this far...thank you.
On a side note,just for you scratch builders out there. I used corugated plastrc signs mainly for this build. This stuff is great to work with,takes hot glue as well as super glue easily. You can scratch build whole buildings with this stuff.
Photos soon...
Patrick
Beaufort,SC
Dragon River Steel Corp {DRSC}
Fear an Ignorant Man more than a Lion- Turkish proverb
Modeling an ficticious HO scale intergrated Scrap Yard & Steel Mill Melt Shop.
Southland Industrial Railway or S.I.R for short. Enterchanging with Norfolk Southern.
Well don't tease...
Where are the photos?
Don - Specializing in layout DC->DCC conversions
Modeling C&O transition era and steel industries There's Nothing Like Big Steam!
DigitalGriffin wrote: Well don't tease...Where are the photos?
Have to complete the beast before pictures. Sorry for the tease,but pictures are coming.
reklein wrote:Be careful about using too much hotglue. It tends to let go after a few years.
I was going to bring up the same thing. It can go especially quick if you live in a dry climate.
Hello Tom,
As a matter of fact,I sure am. I have all of the walthers kits,but haven't put them together yet.Have to build my layout and figured on starting the biggest building first.Worked on the BOF again last night,building the top walls and coated them with corugated siding.
So far I have about 34 pieces to glue together,just to make the hull of the structure. I don't have a scale ruler & am having trouble figuring out what size the pac-man style vents should be. So as far as the vents go its trial & error.
The blast furnace will be fairly close to the BOF as will the EAF. The EAF will also be enlarged.
The scratch built kress carriers are going to be busy little buggers working for both the BOF & EAF. I have so much stuff in my newly built shed,have to wait till the weather dies down in order to build the layout.All my stuff has to be moved out of the shed.
I'll post pictures of the BOF when done.
HI Patrick,
I'm obviously waiting eagerly to see your photos!
I was wondering though, since that bldg occupies 8 sqft of precious mrr real estate - will you have access to it from both 4-ft sides? And if not, are any tracks going to run behind it? (Don't ask me how I know about this <LOL>)
-Ken in Maryland (B&O modeler, former CSX modeler)
Ken,
The BOF is four feet long....I should have built it eight.Hence more building for the buck.Should have pictures of something this week-end. I have the wife helping me glue all these parts together friday night.....at least thats my plan.She on the other hand might make up some excuse why she can't help.
One question for you. What did you make the pac-man style vents out of ? Having a little trouble making these vents. Yupper the track work goes through one side and out the other.On the back end of the structure,the track will dead end,thats the only downer.
Still have to build the bench work,most likely will start on it friday night.
Pictures coming....
DRSC
dragonriversteel wrote:One question for you. What did you make the pac-man style vents out of ? Having a little trouble making these vents.
I used Plastruct 'styrene' (actually butyrate) tubing, can't quite remenber the exact size. Somewhere ~3" diameter. I sliced it lengthwise into two channel halves.
Do you still have that set of images I emailed you last year? If not, here are the links to them:
End View
3/4 View, from bottom upward
3/4 View, top downward
3/4 View top-down, with adjustable* deflector installed
(* Adjustable on the prototype, not on the model)
If I can find time later, I'll try to draw a diagram that shows the shapes of the individual pieces . I can't do it right now because I'm at work.
[LATER EDIT:]
OK here is a diagram version of the end view, hope it explains things clear enough...
Measurements of it would be outstanding!!!! I wonder if I can get away with using 3" PVC pipe for both the vent and down-comer pipe ?
Shoot I still have to glue the whole thing together....oh joy....sigh. I might be able to sneak out to the shed tonight and piddle around with the down-comer.
Patrick, the reason I used the styrene [even though it's more expen$ive] is because, at the time I built this thing, I didn't have a decent table saw - I had to clamp a hacksaw blade to the tube for a straight-edge, then score-and-break with an exacto knife blade. PVC piping would have been too thick to allow me to do that. But if you have a table saw [and I'm guessing you do] I'm sure PVC will work fine.
BTW the length of each vent tube is 9 inches.
Check my earlier post with the picture links, I added a diagram to the bottom.