Pringles can elevators

I have used the plastic containers from Tennis balls and maple surup bottles to make Oil Storage Tanks. Old Spice bottles are great for Dust Collectors.

Paul Goodness

Thin wall plastic pipe is another good source. Then you can have any height you want.

i used schedule 40 white 4" pvc pipe for my silos. they measured about the right diameter and i could cut them to the height i wanted. got my pipe out of a dumpster at a construction site with permission from the onsite job boss man.-jim

Where does one find the highth of a silo? They are very tall. Maybe between 14-18inches? That would make the elevator building even higher.
The demensions on the Kober 315 kit are 24"L x 8"D x 24"H
from the photo looks like silo may be between 18-20 inches on that model with the conveyor on top an extra couple inches. .

I found this video a bit interesting as the author rebuilds a Kober kit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...vdmo&feature=related

Dan

I used Pringles cans, and the the large Gatorade cans for my oil storage facility. I have not decaled them but at least from a little distance they look just fine after a couple coats of white spray paint. And a lot cheaper than trying to buy a more realsitic oil storage facility too. The Pringle & Gatorade cans are to the left behind the Shell station.

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Originally posted by paul goodness:
I have used the plastic containers from Tennis balls and maple surup bottles to make Oil Storage Tanks. Old Spice bottles are great for Dust Collectors.

Paul Goodness

Paul, great tip about old Spice!

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Old Spice bottles are great for Dust Collectors.

Everything in my house seems to be a dust collector!

Most concrete Grain Silos appear to be 100' to 110' tall in person and in photos.

Andrew

The cheap thing to do is to eat oatmeal that is in a round cardboard tube, then stack all those tubes to make silos.

 

A company that has that has rolls of thin, plastic, reflective film will have plastic tubes left over that can be used to make the silos.

 

Andrew

I used 4" PVC pipe from HD and foamcore for the main building....

 

Alan

 

 

 

 

 

 

I can assure everyone that I would definitely enjoy the very first stage of building anything using Pringles cannisters.

 

Phil

Leavingtracks that is a nice grain elevator you made.  The one's in this picture are 210 feet.  In the midwest most of the elevators are between 200 to 250 feet.  The center part of the elevators can be up to 300 foot.  You better find some big Pringle cans.

Home Despot sells Schedule 80 3.5" (inside diameter) for about $18 for a 10-foot piece. The last 6" aren't usable as it's flared, but you can cut some really nice silos with it. Shoot it with some automotive primer and your favorite concrete paint and you're good to go.

Thanks T8afao....and yes, the granary complexes are usually a couple of hundred feet tall which translates into a 4 foot tall model.  Most layouts would be dwarfed by a model that large.  My model is 32 inches tall and the silos are just under 20 inches in height.

 

Alan

Since we're discussing containers other than Pringles, here's a few photos from my first layout of my diesel fuel storage tank.  It is made from a Mortons Salt container turned upside down and some Plastruct pieces.  The sign was made on the computer and printed on adhesive backed label.