Saturday, March 16, 2019

Papermill: Conveyor Transition Housing Supports


After measuring the conveyor supports yesterday, it's time to build the supports for the conveyor transition housing. I started with four H-beams from my styrene stash.


I slightly angled the H-beams outside to match the angle of the conveyor supports. I'm hoping to get the same clearance for trains passing underneath on the continuous running track, without building an awkwardly complicated structure behind the recycled paper warehouse. I was a bit concerned when I started. The beams looked rather odd.


However, the structure started to look reasonable (especially for a background structure) as I added more cross beams and straightened out the arrangement. I might have angled the vertical beams a little bit too much, but that's ok, they are barely visible behind the warehouse anyways, so I'm not going to worry about it.


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