I want something from 40's to 50's
Flood loaders have been around for a while but are still quite contemporary. There are a couple of other videos on Youtube showing the prototype and they are only couple of years old.
They really take up a small footprint, even the humongous ones in the Powder River Basin. The prototypes can be anywhere from about 100' to over 1000' feet high. Even the biggest ones would fit on an ~18x18" scale footprint. How tall you make it determines how much coal it holds, and how heavy it is.
BUT, as shown, you need a very consistent very slow speed throughout the loading for it to work. I think the prototype is between 1/4 and 1/2 MPH and has to stay consistent as the train gets heavier and heavier. Me thinks that is the real hard part.
Originally Posted by rdunniii:
BUT, as shown, you need a very consistent very slow speed throughout the loading for it to work. I think the prototype is between 1/4 and 1/2 MPH and has to stay consistent as the train gets heavier and heavier. Me thinks that is the real hard part.
Command control from MTH or Lionel is a must for maintaing consistant slow speed.
I've operated a HO flood loader using DCC and it worked pretty darn good. Perhaps I'll see if I can post a short video of it. The flow was not quite the consistancy of this youtube though.
David,
The Servo is an engineering marvel and alone would cost about $1,000.00 and upward, without the surrounding building.
Beautiful!!!
Ralph
Originally Posted by RJL:
David,
The Servo is an engineering marvel and alone would cost about $1,000.00 and upward, without the surrounding building.
Beautiful!!!
Ralph
Hi Ralph,
I believe the servo's that are used here are in the $15 range. I called a local shop that carries an assortment of Remote Control Planes/Boats Helicopters and they have in stock these servos, quoted prices were in the $11-$18 range. The building is a an out building used in the Walthers New River Mine. I plan on using either 1/8" plywood or foam board covered with either styrene siding or Northeastern Lumber corrugated siding and some basswood for the support beams. I can't see the whole thing costing much more than perhaps 60-$70.
Here is a link provided by a Youtuber where he got his servo's
Tee Hee, RJL probably remembers the old days when servos and RC systems were crazy expensive. It sure kept me away from RC when I was growing up.
But, nowadays. as Bluegill1 noted entire one or two servo RC systems can be had for less than $100.
rdunhill,
You're right!
Back in the 1950's, I remember when the cost of a color T.V. set was at a high price.
These, new FANG-DANGLE CONTRAPTIONS are something neat and at a lower cost, than many moons ago.
BUT, let one of †he big model rr. manufacturers market the servo with bunkers, chutes and a surrounding building, then you will see a $1,000.00 and up price tag!!!
Ralph
My grandson just saw the coal filling operation and he told me it is not just cool but rather is is "WAY COOL".
