Suydam 2 Stall Engine House

[deemery]

It's kinda wild in the video watching all of the solder blobs suddenly melt nearly instantaneously...  Lots to learn from this thread, even if it's stuff I'd probably never attempt.

dave

[Mr. Critter]

This thread is a lesson in pursuing and achieving excellence.

[Bernd]

It's kinda wild in the video watching all of the solder blobs suddenly melt nearly instantaneously...  Lots to learn from this thread, even if it's stuff I'd probably never attempt.

dave

Aw, come on Dave. You could do it.

Bernd

[Bernd]

This thread is a lesson in pursuing and achieving excellence.

Why thank Mr. Critter. Once I get this thread finished and get to working on my quarry portion of the layout, I'll post my two HOn30 critter builds. This way when the ah hem, other place decides to go away again I'll have the complete build on this forum. That's what this thread is all about, to preserve the Suydam Engine House build.

Bernd

[Bernd]

Going to get into a little bit of wood working next.

I decided at this point that I needed to get some sort of idea on framing up the first wall. So, I started to think how I wanted to do this. I figure the main 12" X 12" posts that hold the whole building up should be glued together first. Next, I'll do some corner bracing and horizontal beams just above and below the windows and then add the horizontal Gerts on a 3' foot vertical spacing.

Here's a pic of the layout. Magnets are great for assembly. They hold the wood just where you need it as the glue dries. I think this works better than weights on top. The magnets would even help in keeping wood from warping.

I use a piece of 1/8" sheet metal overlaid with a piece of paper. Aluminum strips about 2" wide are used as an edge guide on the left and top and are at a perfect 90°. I use magnets to hold the aluminum strips down. Smaller magnets are use in positioning and holding the wood.



I started to add bracing on the larger beams. I'm not too happy with my chopper I built a while back. It doesn't chop the wood square. So I made myself a crosscut saw using the lathe. Besides turning material round, you can use it as a saw.

I had made a mandrel a while back for cutting off pieces of PC board for making pc ties. I can lengthen it also for longer pieces just by loosening the chuck and sliding the arbor out to a length I need. Also what's nice about the lathe is how slow it can be run. Makes cutting styrene or any kind of plastic a breeze without melting it.

So I'm going to need a number of corner braces and two 45º angles on them. Here's the lathe saw set up to do that.



Two pieces of wood glued and nailed to the bottom guides the sliding table.



And the end result.



Couple more pics. All glued up and cooking. I'll see if I can get the frame off the wall without breaking a glue joint. I'm sure one or two are stuck to the metal.





I finished the second frame. Here are some pictures of it and the frame mounted against the corrugated wall.





After I finished the second frame I did a little photo shot at the stone crusher.







This is an al-la Bob Boudreau photo through the yet to be installed window and metal corrugated side.



Next will be working on the windows.

Until next time.

Bernd

[deemery]

There's something appropriate about an Iron City beer reefer peeking out behind this build!

dave

[ReadingBob]

Uh....Wow! I'm at a loss for words on this one.    Okay, I'll settle for amazing but that really doesn't do it justice.

[Bernd]

Uh....Wow! I'm at a loss for words on this one.    Okay, I'll settle for amazing but that really doesn't do it justice.

Thanks Bob.

Bernd

[westtexjohn]

Looks like you have really progressed on this build since I last took a look on the old forum.
Very nice work Bernd.

[Pennman]

Holy framer, Batman! What a nice way to cut precise angles in your woodstock.
I'll have to borrow a form of your concept to use in a future build. Thanks for sharing your skills with us.

Rich

[ACL1504]

Bernd,

Cheating? No, just good old craftsmanship and the satisfaction of building it yourself. That is one reason I always kit bash or scratch build my models, for the satisfaction that I can do it and have something I made nobody else has.

Fantastic and expertly done sir.

Tom 

[IWannaRetire]

Thanks for sharing all the detailed postings, Bernd.

I've always been fascinated by those metal kits. I remember back in the '60s reading and re-reading my copy of HO Railroad That Grows, Linn Westcott wrote about building different sorts of kits, and Suydam's Black Bart Mine was given a bit of a how-to, which was really intriguing to me at the time.

[Bernd]

Looks like you have really progressed on this build since I last took a look on the old forum.
Very nice work Bernd.

The kit was actually finished last year IIRC. I'm only posting it here because of the other sites idiosyncrasies. I have many more kits form this manufacturer. Here are just a few of them.



Bernd

[Bernd]

Holy framer, Batman! What a nice way to cut precise angles in your woodstock.
I'll have to borrow a form of your concept to use in a future build. Thanks for sharing your skills with us.

Rich

Always willing to show my (secretes) techniques. This shows the versatility of a lathe. Not only can it be used with different materials, but using it in different ways.

Now I just need to get you to buy one ( ) you could do the same.

Bernd

[Bernd]

Bernd,

Cheating? No, just good old craftsmanship and the satisfaction of building it yourself. That is one reason I always kit bash or scratch build my models, for the satisfaction that I can do it and have something I made nobody else has.

Fantastic and expertly done sir.

Tom

Thanks Tom. I'm the same when it comes to having something I made that nobody else has. That's one of the reasons I follow your builds, always interesting and different.

Bernd