Thursday, January 23, 2014

Building the Campbell coal tower

I started laying out the various sizes of wood. You can see I have the hoist house put together, less the roof. Everyone who has one of these kits, get it out and let's build together and share your work.
After looking at pictures of Chama, it is apparent that the outer loft house supports are shown too far in. These need to be moved to the edge and be one solid piece on the corner.  (Shown in red)I understand why there are drawn there, they will then lineup with the bucket hoist rails. But on the real one, they don't
in the picture below, I've added a red line that shows the center line for the rods that open the coal drop doors. This helps locate the bottom cross piece on the bucket rails. It needs to move up a bit from the plan

In this picture, I've added a piece to fill in between to coal drops. (not shown on the Campbell plans) Not sure of the depth on the real one, so I made mine 2 feet below the the top. I also glued the hoist house floor to the back side

Next up is building the coal pockets.
Where's my Single malt Scotch?

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