My Open House

[TERRYINTEXAS]

My Model Railroad open house is Saturday and Sunday

I made this Video for my friends that couldn't come
You can view it here



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdwFivkrKrM



Sing it Willie~!

[jonathan]

Nice alternative universe you have packed into a spare bedroom.  Great job and thank for sharing with us!

Regards,

Jonathan

[TERRYINTEXAS]

Thanks for the kind words

[TERRYINTEXAS]

So far evreryone likes the layout
They all love the operating coal tipple
I can't believe any thing as simple and cheap as 2 ball point pen springs glued end to end
laying in a soda straw cut in half horizontally to form a trough and when rotated via a low RPM motor makes an auger to move the coal works so good

[charon]

Terry,
That coal auger is pure genius.
Thanks for sharing.
Chuck

[TERRYINTEXAS]

Thanks Chuck
I got the idea one day when i had taken an old ball point pen apart
to use the body as a tube for another project and i saw the spring laying there on the table and the spirals of the spring looked like an Auger      The rest is history