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STEP 11: Preparing the Assembly Base
Continued ...
5” piece of .060 styrene for the base. Position the receiving
bin, breaker, conveyor and conveyor tower on the base and
then mark the areas outside of the basic structure. Cut these
away and you’ll have a base that looks like the one in the
photo above.
I realized at this point that I would need to add the ground
cover under the breaker and the receiving bin prior to glu-
ing them to the base. And before I could add the ground
cover, I needed to install some base supports for the breaker
and the large conveyor. In the photo here (35), the breaker
is resting on two lengths of .040 x .040 styrene cut to the
width of the structure and glued to the base at either end.
In order to elevate the large conveyor so that it would rest
inside the breaker, I cut a piece of hydrocal from a retaining
wall that I had left over from another project and glued it in
place with epoxy. As a result of raising the end of the large
conveyor at the breaker, the support bents for the conveyor
were now too short.
I added a piece of .060 styrene to the styrene base along the
length of the conveyor as shown in the photo here (35) in
order to solve this problem.
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STEP 11: Preparing the Assembly Base
At this point in the project, I thought the next step would
be to construct the roofs for the breaker and the conveyor
and put together the sides and roof for the receiving bin.
As I began to take measurements for the roof of the large
conveyor, I realized the part of the roof would extend over
the tower at the end of the conveyor. And the end support
for the roof would be attached to the tower.
Therefore, there was no way to accurately measure the
length of the roof without having the conveyor and the
tower glued in place. So the next step became building
the base so that the breaker, conveyor and tower could be
glued in place prior to constructing the roofs.
In order to make sure that all of the various pieces fit
together correctly and to provide some support, cut a 13” x
35: Styrene base for large conveyor, breaker and
receiving bin.
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Coal loader, p2 - 5
MRH-Jan 2013
