O scale gas pumps

Berkshire Valley makes a couple of styles. I think you can buy them individually. 

http://www.berkshirevalleyinc.com/misc.html

Thanks for the suggestion, John. Those are good looking pumps although a bit on the pricey side considering they are in kit form. Not that the price is out of this world on those, but I am making two of every building that I make and selling one on Ebay to help defray the cost of my new hobby, so the bottom line on materials does mean something to me.

DiecastDirect has some early 1930s pumps for about $15.. EBay has a wider selection, but the 1920s-40s styles have the globes on top. The non-globe ones seem hard to find. Avoid the dealer in Canada due to high postage rates, and their postal system that likes to crush stuff.

I have a couple of these and they are quite nice.  I also picked up some later ('50s) onces from diecast direct about three months ago, including a wonderful 1950s Texaco one.  Don't know if they still have them in stock. 

Thanks for the tip on Diecast Direct pumps. They have some 30's era 1/43 pumps in stock right now for $13, which is not too bad considering they are fully finished. Too bad Gearbox doesn't make 1/43 pumps, I have found some of their 1/18 and 1/25 fully finished pumps for $5!

Also, I recognized the Berkshire Valley pumps and did a search and found the pumps only listed on Hobbylinc for $6, although it is an unpainted kit and only the Shell version is in stock. The BV site lists none of the pumps only as being in stock at the moment, they need to get casting!

Please keep the tips coming, I am interested in having as many options as possible, and of course this thread will become a resource for folks searching for these items in the future.

As John mentioned about the Berkshire Valley versions I have a couple of them. Either version I do agree that the clear plastic does not do it any justice and for that, on my most recent model I covered it (most of the clear) with a wrap around decal I made from paper print. I did fill it with an orange color dish soap mixed with this AC glue and it looked pretty good.........until I could not rid it of the "BUBBLE" that came out of nowhere.

Later I found a clear plastic tube about the same diameter and cut it, glued it to a base and then filled it with a varnish and it looked pretty good. However it was after I had finished the first model and it didn't make it onto the layout at Moe's Garage. It will have to wait for the next service station. I'd love to see your model when you get it going....

This is why I made my own ones in aluminum.

AG.

Do a google search for Vitesse Gas Pumps - found a whole bunch on Amazon....

http://www.amazon.com/Mini-pre...ef=pd_sim_sbs_misc_4

The Berkshire Valley glass bowl pump is a decent kit. It requires a little clean up with a small file and a decent coat of paint and decals. Evergreen Hill Designs used to make one also, but seems to be out of stock everywhere I've seen it listed.

That is excellent!..Nice work.

Owen,

I bought a mini lathe a while a go for $500 believe me this is one of the valuable tool that I have for modeling.

the Oil pump on top of the barrel is machined as well.

Andre.

The oil pump is a pretty darned small item to be machining Andre, good job on that. Did you make the handles and whatnot from brass rod? Right now I have about 100 "irons in the fire", so i think I need to complete a few things before I go off in yet another direction and get a mill setup. Last week I managed to get my main track back in place after deciding to change the layout plan a bit. Now I need to finish some of the buildings I have in the works. I now have most of the doors and windows that I need, and have experimented enough to get a few techniques down, such as a good tarpaper roof method, O scale corrugated metal (stamped from .005" can aluminum), river rock masonry (real pebbles glued in place & grouted look just like the real thing- go figure- right?), and the peeling/weathered paint techniques I need for my buildings. Just need to focus now....

Must... concentrate.. on... one... project...

P.S> After looking closely at your pumps I am guessing that you used Romex for the hose and then stripped the ends for the fittings and handle?

Owen, check this out.

the saw is a real.

corrugated machine made by me:

there is not limit in this hobby if you want to engineering everything, and the payoff is awesome!!

the pump hoses are electric wire to keep the hose shape.

For the oil pump I use brass rod to make the handle.

That vise looks like it actually works. And the saw does too... Soooo, I see that you have some very tiny craftsmen making these items, eh? Busted!

 I like your corrugated rollers. Did you make the rollers, or are they from a paint tube / toothpaste wringer?  What spacing (pitch) do you get from one peak to the next? My machining these days is limited to what I can do on my 1946 Delta Unisaw, and I was able to make 1/8" corrugation dies, making the corrugation pitch a scale 6", or 1.5x the 4" on regular real corrugated metal. It looks pretty good though. I tried making 3/32" dies but with my equipment it just did not work out. At first I tried taping the blanks in place, but later stopped doing that as I found that laying them with the curl down aligned them in the die just fine. The pieces I made in these pics are scale 4'x10' and 12'. I know that real corrugated metal comes in 24" widths (26" really) but that just did not work good or look right, so in my O scale world 4' width metal was available.

Here are a few pics of my O scale corrugated metal setup:

The best part of this method for making O scale corrugated metal is that producing the raw material goes real well with the production process.

These were made from Berkshire Valley gas pumps and (I think) Microscale decals:

The vise work like a real one!

So the roller that I made give me 3/32 pitch, using aluminum is easier than cans because cans are not 100% alum. But I have to agree with the process to get the raw material!! 

AG.

I have a limited amount of these left @ $8.50 each + shipping.

Shown are a Tokheim 36-B 1936 and a W ayne 60 1937. These are diecast.

Bob

Great looking pumps, thanks for posting BK. At the moment I am thinking I will get some of the BV units (if there are any left). It is a good thing to have multiple options though and I like that these are fully finished. Do you have these listed in the for sale section here?

Owen you asked about gas pumps so I posted them here for you to be sure you got a good chance to buy.

Bob

Thanks again for posting those Bob. As I mentioned earlier I will likely build more than one era of gas station, and multiple copies of any that I build so I will need several pumps. If I want to purchase some from you should I just PM you? Or are you listing these on Ebay or such?

Owen my email is in my profile.