N scale "What's on your workbench?"

Mark Watson Oct 28, 2009

  1. John Moore

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    Both times I have ordered now I got a free gift. This time it was the ice dream truck.
     
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  2. John Moore

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    Recently I made some small card stock passenger shelters but I needed some even a bit smaller so I ordered some GC Laser wood kits.


    Last night they arrived and I immediately painted one with a very light coat of Vallejo paints and left it to dry overnight. The wood laser scribing is very fine and delicate so a single light paint coat is all that is called for and both sides were done at the same time. That was done to counteract warping on wood this thin. The lines are so fine on the sections in the wood sprue that I used a single edge razor to cut through the small sections that retained the pieces in the sprue. A number 11 exacto blade would have been to large. The kit is a tab in slot construction and I used a very minute amount of Elmer's white glue to begin assembly applied with a dental surgical pick. The wood is very thin and very delicate so a delicate touch is called for or you will break it. The kit produces a single 12 by 12 N scale foot structure.


    The kit assembly has just started so more will follow.
     
  3. Philip H

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    working on some storage silos for the salt warehouse at Weldon Aggregates . . . .
     
  4. John Moore

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    A lot more to this little kit than meets the eye. A tar paper roof was supplied. Next up is to assemble the seating bench and mount the roof.


    Roof rafters were so delicate that I broke four just getting them out of the sprue or handling them.
     
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    Well now off the workbench with the little passenger shelter and onto the layout. This is the only reason for the little passenger shelters, the Tram, All other long and short distance passenger trains stop at one of two regular train stations on the layout. For the short run off the overhead wire or 3rd rail the Tram is on battery power. There will be at least 3 or 4 tram stations on the layout.



    In this scene the Tram is awaiting passengers from the secure USCG/NUMA pier while a truck passes through the security gate to make a delivery. At the Tram site there is a 2nd guardhouse and gate.

    The asphalt roadway is Arizona Rock and Mineral powder that is mixed with equal parts Elmer's white glue, water, and the ground stone powder. The little passenger shelter is set in another Arizona mix.
     
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  7. John Moore

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    And remember the card stock buildings I posted back a page or two here. Well the Mexican Restaurant, Macy's Diner, Frosty Time ice cream, and the news stand have all been sited on a reworked site along with Pratt's grocery.


    Once again Arizona Rock and Mineral asphalt was used. Later to come are dumpsters and manhole covers in the street plus line striping once my templates get here.
     
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  8. Moose2013

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    Moose working on the logging camp shacks ... The kitchen shack has just been finished; looks a little lonely! [​IMG]

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  9. sidney

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    oil pump jack first part was a real bear to print the parts. The second printing of gears ect went quite well. i was having sticking issues with my build plate. but so far so good . now i have to put it all together. this was a working oil pump but i shrunk it for my layout . (found on thiny verse ) might go ahead a print the ho size just to add a motor so it works. the gears printed out really good. making me think about gears for my kato NW2 rebuild.
     

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  10. Sumner

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    Nice, do you have a link to the pump?

    I'd like to see the gear sizes to see what is printable. Be nice to be able to print gears to replace those older Bachmann 'white' gears that were/can be a problem.

    Sumner
     
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  11. freddy_fo

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    That is really cool. I bet if you look around you can find a motor that would be small enough to fit in there. I recently got some Viessman N scale semaphore signals that are motorized and the motor in them is about the same size/dimensions as a thick aspirin pill. Worst case have the motor underneath but I would suspect that would take a bit of redesign. Slightly larger are the pager motors they use on the linear servos for those little RC airplanes.

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  12. John Moore

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    Pardon my ignorance, but are you clamping them flat with magnets to keep them from warping with the water based paint?
     
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    Moose finished the other two logging camp shacks.

    The storage & repair shack is closest and the bunk shack is in the middle. Kitchen shack in the back.

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  15. sidney

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    here ya go . i had a dickens of a time with them . but those gears do look like they would work or at least scale them up or down. ive been trying to sepperate the part into solo files but its been tough. Hope this link works. if not just type in pump jack in thingy verse.
    https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3077076
     
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  16. sidney

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    freddy_fo i like those small motors . i might make the ho scale pump jack and give it a try. aspirin size motor would work perfectly too.
     
  17. freddy_fo

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    I've got a few of those servos like in the pic above. Not sure of their working status but likely the motors are ok. If you believe you can get one working in an n scale derrick I'll donate to the cause with the stipulation that you print off a kit for me once you got it sorted. The motors are 5/8" length with shaft and gear in place. About 4mm in diameter. I bet for those of us with DCC a light decoder with proper step down resistors would be able to get the speed real nice for a sweet animated oil derrick.
     
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  18. Massey

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    My workbench this weekend was full of 1998 Yukon that we purchased last weekend. My brother and I bought the truck DOA, the previous owner couldn’t get it started, threw a mess of parts at it and still nothing. So we towed it home last weekend, and this weekend I went to check it out. I suspected the security system was preventing it from starting, and by the look of the worn out key…. Well I got a fresh cut key from GM based on the original code, and not made from a worn out copy. Took it home and ran the security relearn process on the truck again. I had tried about 6 times with the old key and no joy, it only took one time with the new key and the truck started right up! It needed some other work too, like the distributor replaced with a good quality one, and to get rid of an aftermarket MAF that was not designed to the correct frequency for this generation or model of truck. Once I put an OEM one back in and set the dizzy properly the truck ran great… so hopefully now I can get back to trains…
     
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  19. Philip H

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    Gotta do a lot of detail painting and weathering.
     
  20. BNSF FAN

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    That looks really cool sir! (y)(y)(y)
     

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