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Title: My Open House
Post by: TERRYINTEXAS on November 14, 2014, 06:53:08 AM
My Model Railroad open house is Saturday and Sunday

I made this Video for my friends that couldn't come
You can view it here



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdwFivkrKrM



Sing it Willie~!
Title: Re: My Open House
Post by: jonathan on November 14, 2014, 10:32:21 AM
Nice alternative universe you have packed into a spare bedroom.  Great job and thank for sharing with us!

Regards,

Jonathan
Title: Re: My Open House
Post by: TERRYINTEXAS on November 14, 2014, 11:07:46 AM
Thanks for the kind words
Title: Re: My Open House
Post by: TERRYINTEXAS on November 16, 2014, 05:48:50 AM
So far evreryone likes the layout
They all love the operating coal tipple
I can't believe any thing as simple and cheap as 2 ball point pen springs glued end to end
laying in a soda straw cut in half horizontally to form a trough and when rotated via a low RPM motor makes an auger to move the coal works so good
Title: Re: My Open House
Post by: charon on November 16, 2014, 07:30:57 AM
Terry,
That coal auger is pure genius.
Thanks for sharing.
Chuck
Title: Re: My Open House
Post by: TERRYINTEXAS on November 16, 2014, 08:45:06 AM
Thanks Chuck
I got the idea one day when i had taken an old ball point pen apart
to use the body as a tube for another project and i saw the spring laying there on the table and the spirals of the spring looked like an Auger  ::)  :o  The rest is history