Scalefour Forum

Most impressive gubbins there..

David

garethevans1986 wrote:David,

Which resin printer do you have?

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Gareth

I'm just using Anycubic standard grey UV Wavelength 405nm

David

I've just watched the excellent video, I just wondered what was done/how the grain tanks were converted to P4? Did you do anything complicated with springing or chicken out like I did and just swap the wheel sets?

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David

I drew up a few bits in Onshape and printed them out on my resin 3D printer. The tank in a wagon at Clare end up like this:- IMG_8323a.jpg and as a wagon load looks like this:- IMG_8328a.jpg The strange cylindrical tank at Sudbury end up like this:- IMG_8327a.jpg which looks like this in a wagon:- I...

That one looks like a pressure vessel possibly gas. CAV, later Lucas, was in Sudbury from from 1911 and was a "modern" high tech manufacture. For instance, they were turning out fuel injectors a from the end of the war onward with the help of my father in law. Quite likely to have the nee...

Rod Cameron wrote:Looks like one to me David - date?

1960 according to the date in the text...
David

I tend to agree that the tank in the wagon at Clare looks like it was steel but what do you make of this one at Sudbury?



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David

After all the intellectual content from Virtual Scaleforum trust me to bring the tone down.... This wagon in the yard at Clare in the 1960s appears to be loaded with a round tank. septic-tank.jpg I have seen a similar loads in photographs of Sudbury goods yard though that load appears to be more lik...

vdebode wrote:Thanks Geraint and David,

I am glad you liked the story . And yes, the steam engine was replaced by a diesel in the 30'.
When I have some spare time I have to make a craddle with a toddler, there is a challenge!

Vincent

and it will need to rock at scale speed.

David

Thanks for a fascinating presentation Vincent. We had similar arrangements of wind pumps in our part of the world in the Fens. I'm involved with the museum at Prickwillow near Ely which has a wonderful collection of diesel engines (the earliest from 1924) which replaced the steam engine which had th...

Returning to the make up of trains I wondered how intelligent the planning was? Noel pointed out that there would be delivery of empty wagons for loading and removal of empty wagons after unloading. Presumable goods clerks at each yard would tell control what wagons were needed and what empties were...

thanks for the feedback. I hadn't realised that the fitted wagons would just run as unfitted. I'm now going to display my complete ignorance of exactly how vacuum brakes work. I presumed that the brakes were applied when the vacuum was lost, either by being released out by the driver or by a break i...

I keep sending chats but it doesn't look like you are getting the messages
David

I can see and hear you now but you aren't responding to the chat messages at all
David

I'm guessing this question is a bit like 'how long is a piece of string' but I'd like to try and model something which looks right.... So here are my basic premises, I suspect that they might not be correct so please point out where you disagree. Time period is ~1955 The Stour Valley line had 12 int...

And the other good thing about having a library is discovering what looks to me like just my wagon, in colour, on the front of Martyn Welch's seminal work 'The art of weathering'. At least by the time I've fixed the brakes and added the tie-rod.

David

Thanks everyone for your informative responses. Those photographs are really great and give me lots to work on. It is amazing what cock-ups you find when you look at wagons you built a long time ago... These mostly have the classic pushing the brake lever down would take off the brakes issue! I thin...

I've been trying to start renovating some of my wagons which haven't really had a proper look at in the last 15 years. I've learnt a lot over that time and some of my attempts from back then look, well frankly, a bit embarrassing. I'd like to try and get these wagons into a livery suitable for ~1955...

Hi All

I vaguely remember a supplier producing transfer sheets for signal arms. My painting isn't really up to what I'd like.

Any ideas who it was?

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David

I put a coat of paint on the fencing and made a little water trough for the corner.



As I am modelling the dock in a disused state I need to add few weeds growing through the concrete.

David

LesGros wrote:David,



The surface finish on the gates looks very smooth; which 3D printer are you using?

Anycubic Photon

And now I've just spotted the corner of a beet conveyor parked in the dock.


David

Much to my surprise my attempts to 3D print the cattle pen gates were actually quite successful. I honestly hadn't expected these to come out given the size.



When fitted onto the dock I think they look the part.



Now I have to work on the water trough.

David

I hadn't actually spotted that water trough - thanks for pointing it out. I think it would be in the far corner and would fit between that corner and the gate on the other side of the dock. I knew the grain loader was a post-1950 addition.

David

I reprinted the posts at 4'6" and rounded the tops as per the photograph. They came out pretty well. IMG_8092a.jpg It was quite challenging to cut, bend and thread brass wire through the posts but I am quite happy with the result. IMG_8098a.jpg IMG_8100a.jpg I now have to work out how to make t...

Going back to the original question of how high the post are I suspect there is not a standard height the Rail Posts are cut and drilled in the works at set sizes of probably 8' with holes drilled in at 12 inches apart for the higher and then 6 inches apart for the lower Then they go out on sight. ...