Jerry Barnes
Garden Railways, Live Steam, Jukeboxes, Record Col
I did 3 1/32nd stock cars using coffee stir sticks. Old basic model technique of pinning them to the plans and gluing. Slow process doubt I'll do any more though!
Coffee stirrer cars......
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I did 3 1/32nd stock cars using coffee stir sticks. Old basic model technique of pinning them to the plans and gluing. Slow process doubt I'll do any more though!
trammayo
Interested in vintage commercial vehicle, trams, t
I use/d them extensively for building structures. On my trailer layout they are fine (painted or unpainted)...
But outside is a different thing. Never leave them outside all year round....
The Pu glue was great but the close-boarding not so! Now the station building is awaiting a make-over! The shingle roof has been fine (tongue depressors) because they overlap and have a 'free end' to expand.
If I built another for outside, I'd make it lap boarded!
Jerry Barnes
Garden Railways, Live Steam, Jukeboxes, Record Col
I buy the sticks by the box and weed out the bad ones. The stock cars are in the shed except when running, so are not exposed to the elements. Walmart has some nice sticks in their craft section, smoother and not as crooked but I like the rough grain on the stir sticks.
tac foley
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Hi, Jerry - good to hear from you again! Although we have a great WalMart in Eugene, we have an even more useful Jo-Anns - the stuff you can get there borders on the wonders of Aladdin's Cave. They even have some great-looking white-painted pocket fence sections for a couple of bucks for a 15" length.
I usually go in with an open mind and come out with a full shopping bag of useful garden railroad-sized stuff that I never knew I needed.
tac
I usually go in with an open mind and come out with a full shopping bag of useful garden railroad-sized stuff that I never knew I needed.
tac
korm kormsen
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buy them by the box (i payed about 4U$ for 10,000) and leave the box alone for about a year.
then sort - straight, wharped upwards, wharped sidewards.
i got about 85% straights.
gregh
electronics, computers and scratchbuilding
Always great to see what others can use these for.
Referring back to 2010 in this thread, I built a coal loader from coffee stirrers and it has been outside ever since.
https://www.gscalecentral.net/threads/a-coal-loader-from-coffee-stirrers.82270/
https://www.gscalecentral.net/threads/a-coal-loader-from-coffee-stirrers.82270/
Not one has fallen off. Here's what it looks like today. All the stirrers I get seem to be coated with wax or something which maybe helps.
Referring back to 2010 in this thread, I built a coal loader from coffee stirrers and it has been outside ever since.
https://www.gscalecentral.net/threads/a-coal-loader-from-coffee-stirrers.82270/
https://www.gscalecentral.net/threads/a-coal-loader-from-coffee-stirrers.82270/
Not one has fallen off. Here's what it looks like today. All the stirrers I get seem to be coated with wax or something which maybe helps.
Coffee stirers are a great resource and they do come in all shapes n sizes. Also quality as said does vary, current ones in vogue round the nits appear to be so thin that thay are hardly suitable for using as PVA appliers. But as Greg says there do appear at some outlets to be coated ones, these obviously are the ones to look to look for for longevity outside as Greg has shown. I just wonder what Greg is using to Glue them with? I think I would be tempted to Drill and Pin them too.
JonD
How about bracketed off one side of the boards? - Then free access from the side you tend to be when running trains??
tac foley
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I refer you to your original post, now old enough to be pensioned off. Pure magic, Sir!! And I bet you didn't have ten bucks in it when you built it.
My kind of modelling, for sure.
tac
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tac foley
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Naw, way too much bother. They'd look pretty stupid, IMO, although the track itself only makes sense from one perspective.
tac
DaveB2
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I don't have anywhere near your skills but I can maybe offer an even cheaper option for your tread plates.
Ever taken a look at that packaging banding before you threw it in the bin?
Obviously the black stuff,
Dave
tac foley
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Even better-looking than mine. Always presupposing that you get stuff with this kind of packaging. Here in the fens we are a long way from the kind of civilisation that wraps stuff up like that. You just might, if VERY lucky, get a piece of baler twine with a label on it asking you
1. Please don't cut, untie carefully, and
2. Please return in the envelope provided.
tac
1. Please don't cut, untie carefully, and
2. Please return in the envelope provided.
tac
Andrew B. Middleton
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2 $ shops also sell packets of those ice lolly sticks, sometimes in really small sizes, and others in larger sizes than the real ice lolly sizes!
stockers
Trains, aircraft, models, walking, beer, travel
What?, Inflation?
Brixham
No buffers were hurt at this sign
I need a load of stirrers to make some US style wild west sidewalks. I've just been through a £ shop and couldn't see any. No staff so couldn't ask!
They weren't next to the wooden bbq skewers.
I need more than a couple of handfuls, so am happy to buy a pack of 1000, and use the better ones.
Any tip where to source...had a quick looky at ebay.
Malcolm
They weren't next to the wooden bbq skewers.
I need more than a couple of handfuls, so am happy to buy a pack of 1000, and use the better ones.
Any tip where to source...had a quick looky at ebay.
Malcolm
Not sure about coffee stirrers, but 'lolly sticks' are available at many of the craft outlets. - Might be more robust than stirrers for a boardwalk?