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Thanks Ralph, The darn forge press is on the back burner for now. I need to lay some track,am itching to see my trains run. I have more scratch builds to come.One is a larger slag processing plant,using the walthers glacier gravel kit & walthers first flood loader,then I'm scratching a huge...

Hello all, Having little time to devote to my mill complex,I did have a little. The latest scratch build is of a old school forge shop.The massive 12,000 ton forge press is still on the work bench,waiting to be installed inside the shop. The outside of the shop has one last and very...

Lately I've been working on four buildings all at the same time. Of course the blast furnace...what a painful kit to put together.Then my DRSC forge shop almost done with this one.Then on to the walthers first coal floodloader,not the western loader but the first one.Anyhow I'm making this...

Last night I worked on the walthers blast furnace.What a pain this kit is. Geez, I've been putting kits together for a number of years & this one has to top one of the worst.It started fairly good ,but then went down hill from there. Also worked on getting the forge press parts together.Still...

Loren, I'm not happy with any of this stuff yet. Guess after a lot of fine tuning this will all drop into place. My basic oxygen furnace turned out very well and can only hope the rest of the mill turns out the same. Patrick

Josh, My forge shop looks to bland.....but after the details she'll look fine. I'm finding the parts in my scrap boxes to scratch build a somewhat decent looking forge press. With lighting ,press and other stuff ,should look cool once completed...at least I hope so. Patrick

Ralph, The very poor cooling tower top cone vents use to be outdoor ground walk-way light fixtures. Yup they went into DRSC heavy shops to be turned into vents. Its amazing the stuff you can dream up if you look around. Patrick

Here are a few pics of the new forge shop,in rough condition.The basic shell of the building measures 2' X 2' ,well compressed. I plan on scratch building the 12,000 ton forge press to go inside. There are other pics of the DRSC wharf and the EAF melt shop as is one pic of a very crappy...

Scratch built the building in about three hours,according to HABS/HAER this model is compessed by 75'. I am adding another building to it as a furnace re-heater for ingots. I've done a little research on forging,seems like some of the best forgings came from Shefield England. A company called...

Started working on the blast furnace. Now I've heard that this kit ,the parts don't line up worth a flip. So is it true ? I'd like to add a forge shop also,with a scratch built 12,000 ton forge press inside. I found drawings on the Library of congress HABS/HAER web-site of both building &...

Hello TN-trainman, I've already built the BOF in HO,with working lights.Pictures are in the HO part of the forum. Tonight if I get a chance,I'll sneak out to the shed and finish DRSC wharf.Got my camera back,so now I can post pictures again. Hope you folks have a great turkey day...

Josh, Do you want a commpressed drawing of a BOF at 25.5 wide or do you want a electric melt shop about the same size ? The melt shop is what I'm talking about. Right now my walthers kits when mated are about..??? Dunno I'll have to measure the structure once set in place. I can...

Thanks Josh, Going to check out what you've been up to right now. Patrick

Hello Chad, I'm going to light up the converter vessel next, I figure on low heat LED lights. Speaking of smelting,not a half bad idea. Patrick

Bigsteel, If you want to make structures this size and have them fairly square.Try using corrugated plastic signs....thats what I used to build 95% of the BOF structure.The rest of the structure is covered in projection screen TV covering,looks like HO scale sheet metal siding. So you...

Josh, My melt shop won't be that big. I just used both walthers EAF & rolling mill kits together. A somewhat small melt shop,but if I need to I can make it a whole lot larger. I've thought of scratch building both a caster building and a forge shop. Inside the caster,I have a...

Hello all, After a hiadis of a few months and building my 12'X14' shed to house my layout. The steel mill complex is well under way. I started by scratch building an enormous basic oxygen furnace.Right now I'm working on the walthers EAF & rolling mill ,they are to be mated together...

Hey Josh, Thanks for the kind words. I've been building this monster whenever I got the chance. Right now I'm working on both the walthers EAF & rolling mill structures.Going to mate them together for a larger melt shop. The BOF was pretty straight forward build.Not to hard at all.Was...

gtbikes51, Thats very kind of you. I'd like pictures of any kress carrier. Not to many photos on-line of these machines. I've build three different kress carriers and two were done using schematics from the US patent office. The first hot metal ladle carier was mostly imagineered,didn't...

Heres a few links seeing the photo thingie didn't want to work this evening. Enjoy the pictures... Patrick Beaufort,SC Dragon River Steel Corp {DRSC} BOF4006.jpg - Image - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting BOF4015.jpg - Image - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting...