Dino's petroleum storage tank

Bill Barnwell · 17 Feb 2018

This a 9" PVC plug that I added 1/8" brass tubing to and put cotter pins in then soldered them in, taped the bottoms with 4/40 die and screwed into the top of the pvc cap that I also threaded. The stairs are plastruct that I cut out one side so that they would bend around the pvc cap. Installed piano wire through the eyelets of the cotter pins and soldered where necessary. Liked the Sinclair decals with the saying of " mellowed for 80 million years ". Remembered as a kid of a Sinclair gas station in Pa that had a Dino on the front of the station that you had to walk through to get to the inside, so I added the Dino just for fun ( jockulairty ) as it maybe. Lot of fun to build and the Grand Kids love it. Bill view

GAP · 17 Feb 2018

Wow!!
Great bit of scratch building I love it.

Paul M · 18 Feb 2018

Fantastic! Great piece of imaginative modelling.
Can I assume that cotter pins are what we call split pins? I always thought cotter pins were tapered bolts for clamping wheels etc to shafts

Hutch · 18 Feb 2018

Wow!
Now I have another cool idea to emiulate over in my fake oil field.

VERY WELL DONE

Bill Barnwell · 18 Feb 2018

GAP said:
Wow!!
Great bit of scratch building I love it.

Thanks

Bill Barnwell · 18 Feb 2018

Paul M said:
Fantastic! Great piece of imaginative modelling.
Can I assume that cotter pins are what we call split pins? I always thought cotter pins were tapered bolts for clamping wheels etc to shafts

well not being sure what split pins are I would have to say probably, they are pins made of very bendable material and fold in half with 1 end open and the other end forming a eye or hole, used on shafts with holes and nuts that have spaces, cotter pin is inserted in hole of shaft and in between spaces in nut, bent over to prevent nut from coming unscrewed. If you need a picture I will provide one. Also use them making stand offs for rails on loco's by inserting in pop rivet crush sleeve small end providing a base for the stand off with the large end. Thanks much for the kind comment, Bill

Bill Barnwell · 18 Feb 2018

Hutch said:
Wow!
Now I have another cool idea to emiulate over in my fake oil field.

VERY WELL DONE

good luck easy to do, Bill

stockers · 18 Feb 2018

Paul M said:
Fantastic! Great piece of imaginative modelling.
Can I assume that cotter pins are what we call split pins? I always thought cotter pins were tapered bolts for clamping wheels etc to shafts

Yes and yes.
A cotter pin is both a split pin and/or a tapered pin (usually with a threaded narrow end to tale a nut)..

casey jones snr · 18 Feb 2018

Bill Barnwell said:
This a 9" PVC plug that I added 1/8" brass tubing to and put cotter pins in then soldered them in, taped the bottoms with 4/40 die and screwed into the top of the pvc cap that I also threaded. The stairs are plastruct that I cut out one side so that they would bend around the pvc cap. Installed piano wire through the eyelets of the cotter pins and soldered where necessary. Liked the Sinclair decals with the saying of " mellowed for 80 million years ". Remembered as a kid of a Sinclair gas station in Pa that had a Dino on the front of the station that you had to walk through to get to the inside, so I added the Dino just for fun ( jockulairty ) as it maybe. Lot of fun to build and the Grand Kids love it. Bill view

Now that is something totally different. Lovely.

Paul M · 18 Feb 2018

Bill Barnwell said:
well not being sure what split pins are I would have to say probably, they are pins made of very bendable material and fold in half with 1 end open and the other end forming a eye or hole, used on shafts with holes and nuts that have spaces, cotter pin is inserted in hole of shaft and in between spaces in nut, bent over to prevent nut from coming unscrewed. If you need a picture I will provide one. Also use them making stand offs for rails on loco's by inserting in pop rivet crush sleeve small end providing a base for the stand off with the large end. Thanks much for the kind comment, Bill

Yes I know them as split pins. Great idea using them as railings

Bill Barnwell · 18 Feb 2018

Paul M said:
Fantastic! Great piece of imaginative modelling.
Can I assume that cotter pins are what we call split pins? I always thought cotter pins were tapered bolts for clamping wheels etc to shafts

pictures of cotter pins and standoffs using cotter pins

Bill Barnwell · 18 Feb 2018

casey jones snr said:
Now that is something totally different. Lovely.

thank you very much, Bill

simon@mgr · 19 Feb 2018

They look good.

Bill Barnwell · 19 Feb 2018

simon@mgr said:
They look good.

Tks, Bill

PhilP · 19 Feb 2018

OK, you have peaked my curiosity..

What is / do you use a 'pop-rivet crush sleeve' for?

We have po (or blind) rivets this side of the water, but not come across these accessories??

Bill Barnwell · 19 Feb 2018

PhilP said:
OK, you have peaked my curiosity..

What is / do you use a 'pop-rivet crush sleeve' for?

We have po (or blind) rivets this side of the water, but not come across these accessories??

to make standoffs line on a engine railing

PhilP · 19 Feb 2018

As, yes.. That makes perfect sense..

It was the long 'brass' tubes, with the thread(?) on the end, I couldn't work-out..

Thanks.
PhilP

Bill Barnwell · 19 Feb 2018

PhilP said:
As, yes.. That makes perfect sense..

It was the long 'brass' tubes, with the thread(?) on the end, I couldn't work-out..

Thanks.
PhilP

They were the supports for the railings, sorry I misunderstood, Bill

PhilP · 19 Feb 2018

Thanks Bill, I see now.

Capt. Jack · 24 Feb 2018

Awesome build. More great ideas you have given us

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