Menards new Morton Salt Building pics.

Looks great Bob.

Man, you don't waste time. Mine are being shipped. This was a home run  item.

Bob I have to say your pictures do more justice to the building than those Menards used.  It's a nice addition to your layout.   One question please!  How did you get the zoning to build right in the middle of a highway,

Thanks for the video! You say that every Menards bldg is the best yet! Of course you happen to be right! LOL

wild mary posted:

One question please!  How did you get the zoning to build right in the middle of a highway,

Eminent domain

wild mary posted:

Bob I have to say your pictures do more justice to the building than those Menards used.  It's a nice addition to your layout.   One question I please!  How did you get the zoning to build right in the middle of a highway,

I know the mayor of Menardsville... He said  the town would relocate the road just to get a new business in town... LOL

Love it 

Mine is ordered and I realized I neglected to buy an adapter.  Rather have that included, well, rather not have the adapter issue at all.   Beautiful buildings, but a hassle imo not direct wiring to transformer constant voltage terminals.  Is the adapter for this building a different part than previous buildings?

VistaDomeScott posted:

Mine is ordered and I realized I neglected to buy an adapter.  Rather have that included, well, rather not have the adapter issue at all.   Beautiful buildings, but a hassle imo not direct wiring to transformer constant voltage terminals.  Is the adapter for this building a different part than previous buildings?

The new adapter has a different part number , but still plugs in the same way. and is 4.5 volts.. Bob

VistaDomeScott posted:

Beautiful buildings, but a hassle imo not direct wiring to transformer constant voltage terminals.

Try this thread for xfrmr acc power to menards buildings at 4.5v dc.   ac/dc to dc buck converter

Awesome. Wish I had space for it.

Bob, I have a question for you, if you can tell. Do all the walkways, handrails and steps look like they were injection molded out of plastic, or do they look like brass or handcrafted from wood or some similar material.

The reason I ask is not so much for me, but if these appear to be injection molded, then that would mean some investment into dies for these pieces. Which would seem to point in the direction of seeing some future similar structures (some have spoken of having a coaling tower). or structures using these same components.

This is sure a nice structure from Menards. Despite the small footprint of the structure - good idea as it would lead to greater sales potential - and yet at the same time it is quite an imposing structure, which your photos aptly illustrate.

Thanks for the adapter info !

Chris, at Miller Engineering made a large Morton Salt neon sign. If you look around even though they are sold out, you might be able to fined one. Don

Bob another good video. Might just be the best Menards building yet.............however I ordered mine as soon as I saw it ( still waiting for mine ) and low and behold there it is in your video in a designated spot already. So I must say you are part of the R&D team and instead of money you get everything they make as perks. But I would do the same thing too. So thanks for the video and keep them coming. ...............Paul

And Jack stands guard...

brianel_k-lineguy posted:

Bob, I have a question for you, if you can tell. Do all the walkways, handrails and steps look like they were injection molded out of plastic, or do they look like brass or handcrafted from wood or some similar material.

The reason I ask is not so much for me, but if these appear to be injection molded, then that would mean some investment into dies for these pieces. Which would seem to point in the direction of seeing some future similar structures (some have spoken of having a coaling tower). or structures using these same components.

This is sure a nice structure from Menards. Despite the small footprint of the structure - good idea as it would lead to greater sales potential - and yet at the same time it is quite an imposing structure, which your photos aptly illustrate.

The walkways are metal painted yellow. The handrails are plastic because  I accidently  cracked one when I was  installing it. Hope this helps.Bob

And Jack stands guard...

What to you call a jazz pianist, box of Morton and a tiny squirt gun?

 Thelonious, salt with a diddly weapon.

Farmer Bill, your such a card...I think you need to be dealt with!

Don

Very punny! LOL

Farmer_Bill posted:

What to you call a jazz pianist, box of Morton and a tiny squirt gun?

 Thelonious, salt with a diddly weapon.

What was in his squirt gun ?  Pepper spray ?  

I was browsing e-bay 2 days ago and someone had one for sale with another listing for the hopper car. $125 and $25. some people move fast.

LIONLMAN  about ur pic, lol.

My Morton salt building has a noticeable whirring sound when the lights are on. Anyone else notice this? Is this normal? Using the new power supply from Menards.

Really like this building but looks good from all sides and its hard to find a good placement for it without hiding some great detail. 

I just got my Morton salt building from Menards. It is one of the nicest buildings they have made so far. The lighting is fantastic with excellent detail.The Morton salt hopper is a nice accessory for this building.

The whirring sound I believe is the led lights.

That salt hopper is really nice and would look great next to the Morton Salt building.

I'd like to have one, but it can't have yellow platforms and stairs. That is a deal breaker.

Are those parts easy to remove and paint an era appropriate color?

What's an appropriate color...

cjack posted:

What's an appropriate color...

 

OSHA rules set yellow as the appropriate color for platforms, etc in (I believe) 1991. Typically, dark grey was used for platforms and ladders during the steam and transition eras.

The girl on the box has varied over the decades, That particular girl on the box is vintage mid '50s. Any specifics for the railing colors then?

cjack posted:

The girl on the box has varied over the decades, That particular girl on the box is vintage mid '50s. Any specifics for the railing colors then?

With yellow platforms, stairs, and railings she'd have to be going to a '50's costume party.

Don't get me wrong, that yellow sure looks nice!

Let me preface this with a little background...  I wanted something taller and more substantial for our layout and started working on building a low cost grain tower using some inspiration from this site.  My 4 yr old son is in love with the color blue right now and wanted me to paint the grain tower blue.  I said that wouldn't look right, but then later the same day found that Menards had just released their salt factory.  This gave me the idea that Morton probably used towers similar to the typical concrete grain storage silos.  Some internet searching did reveal that Morton does have storage silos like this (although not blue).  So an idea was hatched - buy the salt factory and couple it with some big salt storage silos.  Thus my son gets his blue silos and Dad gets to have some fun.

Now be gentle with me please.  This is my first scratch built building, I do not have local sources for things like doors and windows, and I was doing it on the cheap (total was $60).  So the silos are PVC pipe, the main tower is 5in plastic fence post, the roll up door is mostly coffee stir sticks, the office is card stock, and the doors and windows were cut out of heat vents on an old VCR that I was throwing away.  It's not done as I need to cut out more windows to finish the tower and the structure on top of the silos and I need to print some various signs, but it's mostly done.  You can see I used aluminum sheet to fashion some "spouts" for the tops of the silos in an attempt to have some fun and make them look like salt containers.  I plan to print some more Morton girl signs to go on each silo.

I also added a salt loading area in the front so my son can load "salt" into the bins, trucks, and train cars with his toy loader.  Putting the more fragile stuff towards the back and out of reach is smart, while leaving stuff he can play with towards the edge of the table.  The "salt" is pretty believable, but is really crushed plexiglass that is used to clean/purge extrusion equipment.

Wow ! Very nice !!!!

Looks great!!

Wow.  Man, that really does look amazing.  Nice job all the way around.  If you have the know how, you could throw some LED "spotlights" on the walls of your building to add some flair.