KC's Workshop Cerzullo's Fruit Packing Build

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Kenny Crump, KC's Workshop, asked me to assist him in "tweaking" one of his new kits. He sent me Cerzullo's (Sir-zoo-lo) Fruit Packing, kit #1404.

KC's Workshop site is www.kcworkshop.com. Kenny has other kits worth looking at.

Kenny also sent me a sample of his screen door and several window awnings.





Continued later this evening.

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The kit includes color coded stripwood and signage in three diffferent colors.



As you can see the sign is creased. I spoke to Kenny and he plans to reposition the signs on the sheet so the fold won't interfere with the signs.

If you are going to weather your structure and sign, the fold/crease won't be an issue.

For those that have followed my builds in the past you know I always without fail do two things before I start the build. One is to check the window and door openings. In this kit the openings were spot on and no adjustments were necessary. The two freight doors didn't make this kit but they are on the way.






The other thing I do is to sand the edges of the walls. The laser cuts at an angle. When the corner posts are added there is a very small gap between the post and the wall if the wall edges aren't sanded.

I simply place the edge of the wall on a new emory board and carefully sand until the edge is more square. I do hold the end of the emory board flat but needed the other hand for the camera.    I get my emory boards from the local State Farm agent. They are free.



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[ReadingBob]

Tom,

Good to see you back at the work bench!  I'll be following along.  As soon as I finish a couple of builds I'm working on I'll be doing a thread on Kenny's Lobster Shack.   

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There are three cardboard/chipboard roof sections. Two for the peaked roof and one for the roof deck in the rear of the structure. All three appear to be the same size; however, they aren't. The two roof sections are slightly larger than the deck section. As a precaution, I marked the two roof pieces "roof" and the deck piece "deck".

The two roof sections are on the right in the photo below.



I checked the section on a small square and found the two roof sections were slightly off on the side cut. Refer to the photo below.



The deck section was square and true as shown below.



I'll come back to the two roof sections later in the thread. This is it for this evening. I'll be working on the structure and will report more tomorrow.

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Tom,

Good to see you back at the work bench!  I'll be following along.  As soon as I finish a couple of builds I'm working on I'll be doing a thread on Kenny's Lobster Shack.   

Bob,

Thanks very much, I appreciate you checking in. I'm very happy to be back in the build saddle. I told Kenny it is has been since June of 2013 when I last built a structure.

Tom

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Tom,

Good to see you back at the work bench!  I'll be following along.  As soon as I finish a couple of builds I'm working on I'll be doing a thread on Kenny's Lobster Shack.   

Bob,

I forgot to mention Bill and Kris were gracious enough to let me do this build for Kenny prior to starting the build I had going for them. Kenny needs this one tweaked before to the EXPO so he has time make any necessary changes.

Tom

[Dave K.]

Following along. I started "Joe's Barbershop" from KC this weekend, my first KC kit. I'm taking pictures as I go for a build thread.

[GPdemayo]

I'll be watching Tom.....

[martin.ojaste]

I will be watching how the build goes. Good luck.


Marty

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Following along. I started "Joe's Barbershop" from KC this weekend, my first KC kit. I'm taking pictures as I go for a build thread.

Dave,

Thanks for stopping by. This will be a fun build and the kit has so many possibilities. I'll be looking for your thread on the Barber Shop.

Tom

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I'll be watching Tom.....

Greg,

Thanks for following along. I should have more on the thread this evening.

Tom

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I will be watching how the build goes. Good luck.


Marty

Marty,

Thanks for following along on this build. It has been fun up to this point and it is a great little structure.

Tom

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Since I last mentioned the roof panels for the peaked roof ends, let's take a look at the peaked wall sections. I measured the two sections and found that one side is longer than the other. More on this in a moment. Yes, a picture is worth a thousand words.

Below are the two peaked wall sections.



At first glance they appear to be the same. And, when placed on top of each other they are the same size.



If we look at the peaked wall section straight on, all seems normal. However, from the left edge to the peak the measurment is 14 HO scale feet.  From the right edge to the peak is 13.5 HO scale feet.



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PLEASE NOTE:

By no means am I being derisive of Kenny or this particular kit. This build is to assit Kenny in getting the "kinks" out of the kit to make it a better structure and less of a problem for others to build.

For this reason, I'm going over everything in the build. Thus far the issues I've shared in the thread are ones that an adjustment to the CAD drawings and the laser cutting can resolve. I'm also making these notes with Kenny's permission. I've done the same with builds for Jimmy D. and Groovy Jeff of CCK fame.

Ok, I'll admit one of Jimmy's caught fire but it was Slims fault. He gave me some very bad advice.


Continuing with the build thread in a few.

Tom

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The peaked wall sections are to be glued to the upper outer wall sections. They will go on the building as seen in the photo below.



When I placed the two sections on each other or "opposite" each other, this is how they look.





Now you can see why the 14 scale feet on one side and 13.5 scale feet on the other side is a problem.

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