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My Elevator Project

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    April 2007
  • From: Western transplant to the Deep South
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Posted by Cederstrand on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 12:23 AM

Most impressive work & photography. Hope to see more of your work as you create it. Excellent!

Cowboy [C):-)] Rob

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  • From: Clinton, MO, US
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Posted by Medina1128 on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 5:25 AM

Ha!!! He's got ALL of you fooled. They ARE pictures of the real thing. He just used a digitized partial planet relocalizer and cut out a piece of earth and took the pictures. I just want to know where he found sawhorses that big... Dude, awesome work.. I don't know about the others, but I would like to see pics of your layout.

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, November 4, 2007 1:59 PM

Wow.  I just typed in a search for elevator and this is exactly what I wanted.  Your elevator looks just like the typical elevators up here which I want to have so I can run BNSF shuttle trains.  I can only hope to come close to your results and might have to settle with a Walthers kit.  Keep up the great work.

Couple questions though.  What exactly is the white tank above the tracks, is it a surge bin or something?  Also, what are the yellow triangles above the semi? and what semi is that?

Steve Wallace

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, November 4, 2007 3:48 PM
wow,thats all i can say, some really great modeling skills you have, i could of sworn, atleast those first two pics were the real thing.
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Posted by tomnoy3 on Monday, November 5, 2007 12:22 PM

Steve, the white thing above the track is a bulkweigher, it weighs the grain as it pours into the car so the legs can constantly run.  For more information check out

http://www.compuweigh.com/ (has alot of information on other elevator automation as well) or

http://www.intersystems-inc.com/bulkweighing.asp

The "yellow triangles" behind the truck are sample probes.  They use a vacuum to take a sample from the truck and bring it into the scale house office to get the test weight as well as percentages of foreign material, cracked kernels, damaged kernels, etc.

The semi is a Malibu International that I cut the roof off and then made a plaster "mid roof" which is more commonly seen hauling grain than a condo cab. 

-Tom

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