Inverlochan Colliery
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- Опубликовано: 4 фев 2025
- 20 years after construction, I finally connected the working machinery of Inverlochan Colliery so I can switch it on. The headframe and lift sheaves are powered by an old N gauge bogie fitted with pulleys made from old styrene kit parts and the mine pump is powered in a similar way, using a worm reduction instead.
The machinery, despite having beeen fine tuned, still runs a little fast. This is due to the limitations of the drive used. I am afraid I will have to live with it!
I have enjoyed your video and it really helps me with my recovery from my brain tumour and stroke as I try to get back to my modelling I mention my illness so you know who is watching and why 😂
Very impressive.
Funny how a couple of relatively simple moving features creates such an air or realism.
Very nicely done.
Excellent and so realistic. It has given me food for thought on my layout which I am constructing at the moment.
Congratulations Ted,
Very nice job,fine workmanship..
Daniel from Bangkok
That's great Ted!
It's a good way to remember a good souvenir for me: when I was 16, I built a big shaft mine and the buildings around it in HO scale (1000 x 450 mm scenicked board). The shaft was near 50 to 60 cm high all in cardboard (1650 parts) and the cardboard wheels were turning like yours thanks to a Lego motor and gears!
I think your wheels don't turn too fast: in prototype, the lifts can reach more than 20 m per second for coal and devices carrying.
A good way is to use a Faulhaber motorgeared system: it's very quiet and you can vary the speed exactly as you wish. It exists for many reduction sets. For example the 2020 model can give 1:7, 1:15, 1:58 or more.
But it's only my ideas. It's always easy to tell and sometimes difficult to do.
Cheers,
JM
Ted i've only just discovered this video. Very impressive.
Very nice Ted ! Always great fun to add some animation to a scene to bring it to life !
Fantastic! The movement looks great, if a little fast.
Great stuff Ted.
I'm building a colliery at the moment but yours puts mine to shame.
Noel
Ted that is outstanding, what a beautiful model ,,, many thanks for sharing ,,,,,,,,,,,, Alan
That's awesome! --dunc
I agree the movement should be slower. At present the power is taken straight from an uncontrolled source, but it would easily be remedied using a transistor controller.
Great work Ted, worth waiting twenty years for! Is it possible to reduce voltage to motors to achieve slower speed, or do they stall?
Love your weathering on the corrugated sheeting.
förderturm und wasserpumpe echt gut!
Super Ted !
Merci Alain!
that motor is very loud