Here's a video on How I made an operating Coal loader
With just a ball point pen , a soda straw and a low
RPM motor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XaMlt1onOM
TerryinTexas
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Interesting approach. I'm thinking about doing something similar with a gravel loader, so it's of interest. Since these videos seem to amplify sound and noise, it sounds noisy. How is the noise level in person? And how long does it take to load a car?
Southgate Interesting approach. I'm thinking about doing something similar with a gravel loader, so it's of interest. Since these videos seem to amplify sound and noise, it sounds noisy. How is the noise level in person? And how long does it take to load a car?
Not that bad
I turned the sound all the way up in the video so you could
hear the vibrator run
Coal tipples were noisy they used shakers and vibrators and screens to separate the coal into different sizes
It takes 2-3 min to load a car i use a car puller to move the cars forward
Many mines would not allow steam locos under the tipples
because of the dust being combustible
some where built on slopes and used gravity to coast the cars others used car pullers
This can add some operating fun to your layout and if you get some of the old Tyco operating Hopper cars You can run live loads
and dump the loads at another location ie a coaling tower or power plant
Very clever. Always interesting to see animation on a layout.
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
tcwright973 Very clever. Always interesting to see animation on a layout.
Thanks it really does add another dimension to the operations
It fully occupies one operator in an ops session loading and dumping cars
Here's a video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUSv_1fYP1k
The same could apply to a gravel operation
Terry
Well done. How long does it take to fill a hopper ? Do you use rel coal that has been ground up ?
yougottawanta Terry Well done. How long does it take to fill a hopper ? Do you use rel coal that has been ground up ?
It takes 2-3 min to load one car and the tipple holds 3 car loads
There a tupperware container under the layout at the coaling tower
The vibrator really helps move the coal down the internal ramp that i painted high gloss black to help make it slippery
I bought the coal it was marked "Fine" on the bag
Can't remember if it was Woodlandscenics or Arizona Rock
Wow cool. Would'nt mind seeing photos of the rest of the build. Installing the set up into the model... Thanks, interesting.
Kalmbach books has a nice book on animation and lighting.
They show how you can take a coaling tower, and use it to store real coal. At the buttom they have a augar bit attached to a slow RPM moter, and thats encased in a PVC tube with one opening at each end (One top to the coal hopper and one beneath to the dump)
It's was a clever project.
Don - Specializing in layout DC->DCC conversions
Modeling C&O transition era and steel industries There's Nothing Like Big Steam!
Yes i saw that and there are other methods on Utube that also work
But I went the cheap route
Doesn't get much cheaper than a ball point pen spring and a soda straw
I'm just amazed it works so well
Very true Terry.
Very true.
I've always been a fan of your layout and what you done with it.
-E-C-Mills Wow cool. Would'nt mind seeing photos of the rest of the build. Installing the set up into the model... Thanks, interesting.
Here's some photos of the insides showing the internal ramp
and motors
"> I made the ramp to fit inside the structure "> The motors sit under the ramp inside the structure "> The V shaped sides guide the coal to the auger "> I glued a cell phone vibrator to the underside of the ramp to help move the coal down the ramp
I made the ramp to fit inside the
I made one to fit in the tipple on my O scale layout. I used a bulb planting auger from Menards inside 1.5" PVC tube attached to a drill motor wired at 30rpms/minute in reverse. It was fed via a funnel on the back side of the scene. I used a push button on the front edge of the layout to start and stop it. It was a ton of fun!
Dan
You're right Dan it is lots of fun
Do you have a vudeo of yours?
C&O Fan -E-C-Mills Wow cool. Would'nt mind seeing photos of the rest of the build. Installing the set up into the model... Thanks, interesting. Here's some photos of the insides showing the internal ramp and motors "> I made the ramp to fit inside the structure "> The motors sit under the ramp inside the structure "> The V shaped sides guide the coal to the auger "> I glued a cell phone vibrator to the underside of the ramp to help move the coal down the ramp
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Yes it's fun to operate, and had some realism to the operations.
I manage to use all the mines on my Nscale Maclau river as real scale coal deliver.
This give me the opportunity and the real challenge to build a high lift rotary coal dumper to give a destination to all the loaded hoppers.
Here some pictures of a mechanism I have build in brass and included in on of my Nscale mines; the mine itself is a cash mine laser kit from blair line kitbashed.
Nice work ~!
Wish i had the tools to work in brass
C&O Fan Nice work ~! Wish i had the tools to work in brass
Really I don't have a lot of tools to work whith brass, some good files, a Proxxon power disk cutter, a dremel, a metal scissors, a 50 and a 100 watt gun solder, some flux, a metal saw and a jeweler saw.
Sure you have most of these tools in your tools collection.
For the big project, the rotary dumper, most of these tools are enough to build it.
Marc