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Re: First draft of my gravel silo MOC
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Tue, 6 Mar 2001 19:10:04 GMT
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Nice job Frank. It's funny that I've been working on a simlair project.
Recently I finished a hopper car design that can be unload with a set of
spring loaded doors on the bottom. The idea is that I'm going to have a RCX
be able to unload the cars if they are full, and fill them if they're empty.
I'm currently working on a scale using a rotation sensor and some old 4.5
track to figure out if the hoppers are loaded. If so I'll dump the contents
into a bin under the scale (thus the reason for the 4.5 track).
At this weekends NGLTC show I'll see if I can get some good shots of the
hopper cars and their unloading doors. Soon I hope to get some shots of the
rest of the gravel/grain/coal loading/unloading station.
Keep up the good work and keep us up to date on your progress.
jt
In lugnet.trains, Frank Buiting writes:
> Hi,
>
> I have just uploaded some pictures of the gravel silo I was working on. You
> can find the pics here:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=3613
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> The building was based on a picture in the Kibri catalog (1999/2000). I plan
> to also build an unloading station with conveyor belt to automaticaly fill
> the hopper or dump truck. So this is actually just a part of the whole
> complex...
> In this picture:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=36345
> You can see the switch where you can select on what side the gravel is
> dumped.
> It's still a work in progress so I'll add more details later on. I'm also
> planning to make stickers for the yellow plaque and 'max height' stickers
> for the overhead clearance.
>
> LMKWYT!
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> -Frank Buiting
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| "James J. Trobaugh" <james@ngltc.org> wrote in message news:G9sIKs.MpM@lugnet.com... (...) RCX (...) empty. (...) contents (...) I'm very curious about the hopper design! I have yet to build a few hopper cars for the loading/unloading station and (...) (24 years ago, 6-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| Hi, I have just uploaded some pictures of the gravel silo I was working on. You can find the pics here: (URL) building was based on a picture in the Kibri catalog (1999/2000). I plan to also build an unloading station with conveyor belt to (...) (24 years ago, 6-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains) !
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