Menards New Feed & Seed

Looks good Lee. As to shaving cream, worked for Carter Wallace, we made Rise Shaving Cream, Arrid Deodorant, Liver pills, Milltown, etc. They got a contract for making Burma Shave, but sorry to say after 6 months, Burma went out of business.

Making Shaving Cream is a simple process.

Lee, the building looks really great on your layout.  I like the fact that you made it a Burma Shave factory.  When I was a youngster in the late 50s, our family took a road trip from upstate NY to Daytona Beach, FL and I vividly recall seeing several of those groups of signs along the road. 

I have two sets of signs alongside country roads on my layout, both actual, and among my favorite, Burma Shave jingles:

Nary a man,

Is now alive,

Who passed on curves,

at seventy-five.

Burma Shave

In school zones,

Take it slow,

Let our little 

Shavers grow.

Burma Shave

Looks like the building light on/off switch protrusion was made to look like an electric meter in a panel, which if you notice, there are three "knobs" (insulators) above the panel which is where the service wires would connect, though I doubt electric code would allow service wires to come that close above ground level (yeah, yeah picky,picky).

Lee did you try to put lights inside?  The building looks great.

Ken M

Lee, another terrific project.  Also, swapping out the trucks works great on your layout. 

Was removing/installing the load difficult?  How'd you do it?

Goodness! I fear what is left of your lake and its waters will suffer from all the industrial run-off. Especially from all the Burma Shave by-products!  

But the fishermen will catch good-smelling fish!

Too late now, but one idea for the upside down sign would have been to place a sign company truck in front of the wall with 2-3 three guys looking and pointing at it - a supervisor and building owner talking to the sign installer(s) about it being upside down due to installer error.  Making lemonade out of lemons.

Lee, thank you for the review.  can you post a link to this item on Menards website/  I went there and could not find anything train related.

thank you

daylight,

Here is a direct link but you can also navigate to this page via the steps in my signature. Let me know if you have any questions.

Thank you,

Mark the Menards Train Guy

play trains,

I will make sure you get back on the email list. The easiest way is to sign up again here. If that doesn't work, I can pass along your email address.

Thank you,

Mark the Menards Train Guy

I signed up for emails too.  I like your style.

Art

Check out the new flat car with a C&NW truck. The latter is a modern F-150 but they are now using die-cast trucks. Both the ones on the rails as well as the ones atop the car!  

http://www.menards.com/main/p-2717055.htm

Thanks Mark for the link. I just signed up for emails.

just got my f&s unboxed.  impressive but wow heavy.

play trains,

Here are links to the two emails you missed. Unfortunately, the Alaska flatcars are back to regular price. Let us know if you miss anymore emails.

Alaska Flatcar with Lumber Load

Menard's Seed & Feed

Thank you,

Mark the Menards Train Guy

I got my in the mail today everything was fine, but the truck it was screw down to tight it was bowed down it came back up when I unscrew it they should look at that problem before shipping them from the manufacture .

Guy

Not to speak for Menard's.........but like our products....they arrive in a shipping container in ready to ship cartons. Opening 2000+ of them to inspect would be tough. Needs to be done at manufacture.....I am sure this will be a check point in future production.

Mark, thanks for the link.

They must be using the same gorilla to put on these trucks, as puts on those impossible to open "welded on" screw jar lids.

Hopefully he will read this thread….

K.C.

Picked up ours today after ship-to-store.  Everything looks great best I can tell.  Very substantial and some neat details.  I was thinking of changing it into a whiskey distillery but looking at it now reminds me of trips to the grain mill with my Grandfather in VA when I was growing up.  Think we'll leave it as is.  Also ordered an Army boxcar and the Army flatbed with pickup.  Both are nice cars and much improved with the metal couplers.

Kudos to Menards on all 3 items.

Daryl

Menards sent me an e-mail that my Mill has arrived at the store for pick up. Nice fast service, since I ordered it on the 15th. But then I am only 120 miles from their headquarters in  Eau Claire, WI.

I'll hopefully pick it up tomorrow.

Is there a way to power the Menards buildings besides using there power supply.  As I posted on the electrical forum the power supply puts out 9.3vdc with no load.  That kinda of concern's me.

Thank You

Ken M

A lot of supplies put out a higher voltage under no load.  The Menards supply works at 4.5 volts against even a tiny load (single LED).  

You can put three batteries (either AAA or AA, I forget which) in the battery holder in the bottom of the building and the LEDs will run for hours - probably days.  Or you can hook it up to a small adjustable DC power supply like these in the photo below and adjust it until the buildings lights work.  The Menards building lights start to glow at around 2.8 volts, and look nice and muted at 3.0-3.2, by the way, but get much brighter at 4.5V.  The three shown power various lights in buildings.  I bought them at swap meets for $2 - $4 each.  they put only only 7 watts from 1.5 to 16 volts DC, so the can run Menards, Woodland Scenics, or standard 12 volt LEDs, and a full voltage they will make 24 volt LEDs glow, but only lightly.

where do you hook the leads on the battery supply wires & is there a way to put more lights inside the building. I am going to pick min up today or tomorrow.

Thank You

Ken M

I did ship to store and picked up mine yesterday. But it has to stay in the box, until I finish laying more track...   

There is a plastic battery pack holder fitted into the bottom of the base (see my pictures on the first posting ofthis thread, the eighth picture shows the black battery holder cover)  You just put three batteries in there.  There is a jack for the Menards 4.5 volt supply on the back (side opposite the truck, right had corner foundation, or you could wire it permanently by just attaching wires into the battery compartment.

I could not get the building off the foundation.  I remove all the screws, but it would not budge.  I imagine one could drill a hole and then use a saber saw to cut a circle out of the base, inside the building, but I didn't take that route.

Thank You Lee

Ken M

Hi Lee, Have to say that owner of the door and window factory should make a fortune having the only store in Alaska that has windows and doors for sale now his only competition would be the guy selling seed and feed that picture really looks like Alaska just like the show "Alaska the last frontier". 

Mark, thanks for this "how to" remove the base of Menards' "Feed and Seed" building.

I too tried to remove the building from the base, screws were out and nothing budged.  wasn't going to pry at it so left it as is.

I just opened mine today.  I find it to be quite a bargain.  Like others the truck cab goes in favor of an older cab, otherwise I couldn't have asked for more.