08-23-2010, 03:24 PM
There should be a head house (not sure if that's the correct term) that distributes the grain to the proper silo, like this:
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If you don't have one, it should be easy to fabricate something suitable from sheet styrene. While you're at it, make some styrene tops for your silos - just set the silo on the styrene, trace around both the outside and inside perimeters with a pencil, then cut out the circle. To keep the tops in place on the silo, cement short lengths of .100"x.100" or .125"x.125" to the top - placing them just inside of the line representing the inside perimeter of the pipe. That should give them a snug fit when placed atop the silos with the small bits inside the pipe. You could also do the same for the bottoms, too.
In fact, since the head house will cover the centre of the silo tops, you could use one continuous top for all of the silos - cut the circular area where it will be seen but leave all of the material where it'll be covered by the head house. This is how Walthers made theirs, in order to keep the silos together. Use a solvent-type cement for the styrene construction and you should be able to depend on a friction-fit to keep the top(s) in place, and the silos all together.
Wayne
If you don't have one, it should be easy to fabricate something suitable from sheet styrene. While you're at it, make some styrene tops for your silos - just set the silo on the styrene, trace around both the outside and inside perimeters with a pencil, then cut out the circle. To keep the tops in place on the silo, cement short lengths of .100"x.100" or .125"x.125" to the top - placing them just inside of the line representing the inside perimeter of the pipe. That should give them a snug fit when placed atop the silos with the small bits inside the pipe. You could also do the same for the bottoms, too.
In fact, since the head house will cover the centre of the silo tops, you could use one continuous top for all of the silos - cut the circular area where it will be seen but leave all of the material where it'll be covered by the head house. This is how Walthers made theirs, in order to keep the silos together. Use a solvent-type cement for the styrene construction and you should be able to depend on a friction-fit to keep the top(s) in place, and the silos all together.
Wayne