{"id":381,"date":"2013-02-16T15:50:40","date_gmt":"2013-02-16T14:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=381"},"modified":"2013-02-16T15:50:40","modified_gmt":"2013-02-16T14:50:40","slug":"381","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=381","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"
In between finishing off my shelf queens I have also been messing about with making a few wagon loads.<\/div>\n
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I started by wanting to make some pipes. Having looked around for something suitable and finding nothing I raided the recycle box, taking out a couple of tins that canned tomatoes came in. Using a pair of snips I cut down the side and chopped the bottom and the rim off.<\/div>\n
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Then I ran them through my rolling bars to flatten it out so that I could mark it up. Once it was flat I squared the edges and marked each one into 3 sections. I cut them out and re-rolled them into smaller diameter tubes. The two cans yielding 6 tubes. I held them together with wire and soldered them with a roll of plumbers solder that I had kicking about the bench (I only used this because I still wasn’t sure how well they would turn out and I had got this for nothing so would lose nothing if they still ended up in the recycle box).<\/div>\n
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Once soldered I gave them a wash and a blow over with some Halfords grey primer and this was the result.<\/div>\n
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The next one is nothing more scientific than one of the small cans that Pilchards come in. This just had the top and bottom taken out and a coat of primer.<\/div>\n
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Last up for the moment is from one of my never through anything away because it might be useful stock.<\/div>\n
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The idea came about from a photo on Paul Barlett’s wagon site that I stumbled upon when researching the pipe wagons – a wagon load of cable drums.<\/div>\n
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With the mental light bulb on I remembered that when making up the base boards for the layout I had cut a series of holes in the ends for the wiring to pass through.<\/div>\n
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To make these holes I used a hole cutting saw which left me some nice round sections of plywood that I had hoarded. Taking some of these pieces I sanded the edges down to smooth out a small rim where I had drilled from both sides. Then I stuck some cut down matches to the edges with pva to create the drum. I had picked up a large bag of matches from a craft shop some time ago with vague ideas and they have finally been used for something.<\/div>\n
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Regards Rob<\/div>\n

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