Hi there,
I just thought that I'd put a post up to say that I'm currently building a HO scale coal layout, that works. I have a Walthers New River Mining Co. coal mine, which I've adapted to hold 'coal', and load hopper cars, and have recently been working on a project to animate a Walthers Rotary Dumper, that I managed to win on Ebay.
I've been looking a lot for information on how to animate the rotary dumper, but there seems to be very little information out there on methods that people have used. There is a poster on one forum Pmack, who has made one work, and he makes rotary couplers out of Kadee No. 5's, which he sells - and I've ordered 6 of for my coal train. His website shows the rotary dumper, and the underside, and the workings - which was a big I couldn't seem to find anyone who's done a full write-up with pictures etc, of how they've made it work.
I just wanted to let people know that I'm willing to do a write up, and post some pictures of how I've got it to work, if there is an interest out there about it. I also have a couple of videos of it working, and with a couple of tweaks here and there, it should be fairly reliable.
So I'll open this up now to everyone else for ideas, comments, questions etc - and if there is interest, then I can expand on how I made it work!
Cheers for reading this far, I was going to post a picture of the dumper, but I've just been given the error that I can't post pictures or links as I have less than 15 posts. So maybe soon...
Marty
I just thought that I'd put a post up to say that I'm currently building a HO scale coal layout, that works. I have a Walthers New River Mining Co. coal mine, which I've adapted to hold 'coal', and load hopper cars, and have recently been working on a project to animate a Walthers Rotary Dumper, that I managed to win on Ebay.
I've been looking a lot for information on how to animate the rotary dumper, but there seems to be very little information out there on methods that people have used. There is a poster on one forum Pmack, who has made one work, and he makes rotary couplers out of Kadee No. 5's, which he sells - and I've ordered 6 of for my coal train. His website shows the rotary dumper, and the underside, and the workings - which was a big I couldn't seem to find anyone who's done a full write-up with pictures etc, of how they've made it work.
I just wanted to let people know that I'm willing to do a write up, and post some pictures of how I've got it to work, if there is an interest out there about it. I also have a couple of videos of it working, and with a couple of tweaks here and there, it should be fairly reliable.
So I'll open this up now to everyone else for ideas, comments, questions etc - and if there is interest, then I can expand on how I made it work!
Cheers for reading this far, I was going to post a picture of the dumper, but I've just been given the error that I can't post pictures or links as I have less than 15 posts. So maybe soon...
Marty