Silos

With all the discussion on silos................

One member years ago had made grain silos out of PCV pipe.
He had gone to one of the local grain elevators and did some drawing
and talked to some people there. When he put them on the layout, it
looked like it was a Lionel structure on an HO layout.

While true in size of the local elevators in New Orleans along the
Mississippi, it was just overwhelming, However they do make a nice wall
lining at the stadging yard.

I have been experimenting on diffrerent items for the plastic plant but
was never happy with my experiments and I wasn't going to pay $85 for
the only Walthers plastic pellet transfer facility I could find on
EBay.

I tried cutting down shipping tubes of differing sizes, industrial
paper towel rolls etc. still, I wasn't happy and refused to use any of
them.

Last week, as we were getting ready for the Friday night football game
( I'm a high school band director ), the drum major asked if we were
taking the plumes to the game. ( plumes are the feathers that stick
into the top of a shako ).

Bam..............I went into the uniform room where I had stored some
new plume "tubes" and there were the silos I was looking for. I had
ordered 24 replacement tubes for tubes that were abused etc. I grabbed
5 and took them to the club and they are pretty close to the right size
I wanted for the plastic plant. Taking proper time to cover them with
a grey or white contact paper, you can avoid ridges in the cardboard
showing through. Once you add weathering they will look pretty damn
good.

Plume tubes are a heavy cardboard tube and come in different sizes for
a small cost.
I'm sure the rivet counters will find fault, but if you need to do a
quanity of silos, the price can't be beat. If it can, tell me where.

Here is a listing from just one band equipment website:

http://www.band-martaccessories.com/band_uniform_accessories.html

Plume tubes
10" 65¢ each
11¾" 65¢ each
12" 80¢ each
13¾" 75¢ each

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  • Re: Silos
    ... One member years ago had made grain silos out of PCV pipe. ... He had gone to one of the local grain elevators and did some drawing ... I tried cutting down shipping tubes of differing sizes, ... new plume "tubes" and there were the silos I was looking for. ...
    (rec.models.railroad)
  • Re: Silos
    ... Up hill slow, down hill fast, tonnage first, safety last. ... I tried cutting down shipping tubes of differing sizes, ... new plume "tubes" and there were the silos I was looking for. ...
    (rec.models.railroad)