Good Morning Everyone,
I will start off with something I constructed in the past. Let's see what you have been working onto
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Alan, So that is where they made my favorite ale Amazing, inspiring structure.
-Tom
Great job, Alan! Always look forward to seeing examples of your work. Very inspirational.
Art
In the middle of building a grain mill complex. I decided to go with a brick structure with more modern concrete storage bins and silos.
Joe
Update on mill
Will start painting trim on brick building this week - trying to get the look below.,
Joe,
that is different. It looks really cool.
Art, Tom,
thank you for the compliments.
Joe, can I ask if you used electrical conduit pipe for the silos and what the size is? I have on my "list" a scratch built silo for cocoa beans for Hershey and the size you used looks perfect.
Dave:
The silos are 2 inch diam ABS tubing from Plastruct. I have used 2.5 and 3 inch diam also. The tubing is somewhat expensive but compared to PVC piping I used to use in the past I am saving literally hours in cleaning off the lettering and sanding out scratches. Also I save the customer money on shipping since the PVC tubing was very heavy.
If you are building just for yourself you can save quite a bit of money by using the PVC piping which you can pick up at Home Depot / Lowes / ACE. Stick with the white piping. The black piping is even thicker and heavier. If you do mix the PVC with styrene caps or want to glue the silos together just be aware normal plastic cement won't work that well. You may have to go to CA or a product I used in the past called Liquid Fusion - believe it is a urethane glue.
Joe
Alan, Joe great work as usual.
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