Thank you for posting the detail photos and the prototype. I wonder what the black hose at the side of the prototype is used for. The elevator is a mechanical device but the black hose looks like something works with pressure or vacuum.
faraway Wrote:Thank you for posting the detail photos and the prototype. I wonder what the black hose at the side of the prototype is used for. The elevator is a mechanical device but the black hose looks like something works with pressure or vacuum.
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Nice! I might order one for Slate Creek's transload track.
Larry
Engineman
Summerset Ry
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Here is my portable conveyor I built for a 1 dollar This is what it started out as , a dollar store purchase & some scrap plastic & wire & paint !!!!!! :o hock: