RMweb Gold mudmagnet Posted July 19, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 19, 2015 I've been building a 'large' engine shed kit, with boiler house as a commission and is now almost complete. I've used 4 Wills Craftsman engine shed kits joined to create this building. The thought of cutting the brick work out, especially the roof profile was a little daunting, so I bought a Proxxon saw from Squires Tools. Very pleased both with the saw and the service from Squires. Made easy work of the brick sheets, although had to carefully plan the template locations and cutting order to get two sections from one brick panel. Oh and to get the profile the correct way round as of course are handed and need to make sure the template is the right way round as all marked on the rear of the sheet using a fine pencil. I also used the saw to cut the side panels to size and the vertical butresses at the joints and between the windows. The roof sections being cut using a scalpel and used 40 thou backing strips to join together. Rather than using the supplied vents, which need to be made up from 4 strips, I used some Evergreen rectangular hollow section with 20 thou cap cut to suit. A workshop was made for one side, again using the brick sheets and Wills corrugated sheets for the roof. A boiler house was also added with a Ratio chimney and vents. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon A Posted July 19, 2015 Share Posted July 19, 2015 Which Proxon saw did you buy, and which blade did you use for cutting the plastic? Gordon A Bristol Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold mudmagnet Posted July 19, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 19, 2015 Which Proxon saw did you buy, and which blade did you use for cutting the plastic? Gordon A Bristol Hi Gordon Its the KS230 and used the blade that came with the saw. Providing you keep the feed rate slow, cuts fine, although a small burr to clean off. I think that the finer blade would be better. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold mudmagnet Posted August 4, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted August 4, 2015 Engine shed now finished, having received a light weathering and ready to be packed to post off. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
14Steve14 Posted August 8, 2015 Share Posted August 8, 2015 Looks good Richard. Brave man using and cutting Wills plastic sheets. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eric709 Posted December 20, 2016 Share Posted December 20, 2016 Looks fantastic, just bought 3 myself and was going to do a similar cut and shut job. Hope mine looks half as good as yours Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold griffgriff Posted December 21, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 21, 2016 Just been building one as a low relief industrial building 4 sheets in length. I had no problems cutting the sheets with a Stanley knife but I did find it useful to make a cutting jig/template to help cut the 12/16mm wide brick piers. This helped enormously with speed and accuracy. Griff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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