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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by FJ and G Snake, I built this exact watertower using coffee stir sticks around a piece of PVC pipe. I gutted a turntable and plopped the motor inside and using my USMC dog tag chain, made a hoist for the spout. The spout I carved from a piece of pine wood using my Dremel kit. The water tower is I think on page 1 of my web site. If you have trouble accessing the website, go back later to it in an hour when traffic has died down. http://davidvergun.tripod.com/ [/quote] David, Your water tower (and the entire layout for that matter) looks GREAT! Just by chance I received an order yesterday from "The Lumber Yard" (http://www.dlumberyard.com/). The items came in a 3" shipping tube. Perfect to use as a "jig" to make the tank. I'll wrap the tube with wax paper, sand the edges of the sticks slightly for fit then glue the sicks together using rubberbands to hold them in place while they dry. I'll have to make a trip to Starbucks today (oh shucks [:)]) for the coffee stir sticks. They are thinner and narrower than popcicle sticks, thanks for the idea. I was going to tapper some dowel material (pine) for the water spout. (BTW I also model wooden tall ships. Masts and cross arms need to be tappered so I have a jig made for that purpose.) I figure I will have to hand carve (dremel) the tip of the spout from a piece of pine. I won't be making my water tower functional as you did with the turntable motor but I do have some scale anchor chain left over from building a ship so the spout chain won't be a problem. What did you use for the tank bands? I plan to use a single strand of wire from a piece of stranded wire but haven't check on wire diameter yet to ge the correct scale size. An actual drawing I found, via goggle, shows the lower bands at 1-1/8", middle bands at 1" and upper bands at 7/8". I will probably find something "close" to 1" (one HO inch is .0115) and go for it. I plan to make this whole thing (other than the chain) from "treasure trash" (stuff that would normally go in the trash and be thrown away) and scrap pieces I have laying around the shop. I am eagerly awaiting GC to fire the starting pistol so I can start assembling my project. [:D] How are the rest of you coming along? Need any help or suggestions on "how to"? I have many years expierence in building models and I would love to help ya. I can be contacted via e-mail, and although not always at my computer (look at the bottom of forum homepage to see if I am on the forum) I also have AIM, MSN and Yahoo IM - see the gray bar below.
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