09-30-2023, 12:47 PM
Thanks, Amanda! Time for more progress.
As I alluded to, I'd been looking for a way to support the conveyor, and if you look at the previous picture of the real breaker, that's done by a tower-truss.
I started looking in my bin of old plastic parts - I was thinking about maybe using something like a signal tower, but wasn't finding anything tall enough.
Back to the files from Clever Models. For the girder bridge kit, there are a ton of long, thin rivetted lengths of rusty steel. I decided to cut them out, and and join three of them together (two folded into 90-degree angles and a flat on the other side). I built maybe seven or eight of these "triple girders" and then made a template on a piece of plywood and joined the girders with a dab of glue.
Then there was the support from ground level. I used a shorter version of the piers used for the support of the breaker from the Overhead Crane kit for those, and put a short foot on the bottom of each main girder. I'll eventually pair this tall support structure with another that's slightly shorter and link those with other girder pieces to create a tower.
As I alluded to, I'd been looking for a way to support the conveyor, and if you look at the previous picture of the real breaker, that's done by a tower-truss.
I started looking in my bin of old plastic parts - I was thinking about maybe using something like a signal tower, but wasn't finding anything tall enough.
Back to the files from Clever Models. For the girder bridge kit, there are a ton of long, thin rivetted lengths of rusty steel. I decided to cut them out, and and join three of them together (two folded into 90-degree angles and a flat on the other side). I built maybe seven or eight of these "triple girders" and then made a template on a piece of plywood and joined the girders with a dab of glue.
Then there was the support from ground level. I used a shorter version of the piers used for the support of the breaker from the Overhead Crane kit for those, and put a short foot on the bottom of each main girder. I'll eventually pair this tall support structure with another that's slightly shorter and link those with other girder pieces to create a tower.
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