16mm photo-plank - plans progress and tools get made
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Thanks for all the comments and ideas on this project both on and off this forum. I'm getting the ideas to jell now, trying to balance all the features I want with practical considerations such as size and construction effort.
I was originally considering something which would give me a couple of options, on the left we had the inside of the shed/workshop and then on the right we had the outside of the building with the gable end. This idea would be about 3' x ~1'6". The Thelkeld shed has a door in the side as well as the end so one option would be a wagon turntable to give a route out through that door, optionally a second road in the shed could be used for locomotive repairs while the main road was used for running locomotives.
I then went a bit wild and considered making the plank double-sided, adding a track down the outside of the shed. So one side would be open the other closed.
In hindsight I think this is probably too big and not meet my design criteria of wanting something easy to move about.
What I am considering now is actually to do the design in two halves, the inside of the shed and the out outside and half them join at the gabled wall.
Some considerations I'd like your opinions on, I want the shed to be very much a workshop and not just a running shed, so I'm considering some of the following :-
a forge - I'd expect a quarry workshop to be able to do some basic blacksmith work,
a power hammer?
a power hacksaw?
Do I have a mill and/or lathe? If I have a lathe how big should it be?
Should I put an inspection pit on the running road?
Just for fun I found some 3d models on the thingyverse for some blacksmith tools and also drew up a few bits myself. I printed these out on the photon.
They painted up quite nicely and I think look rather more 3 dimensional than some of the etched offerings available. I think I might get some wood and try and make up a work bench.
As always, all ideas welcome.
David
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