Corrugated materials

[robsmorgan]

I hope this isn't repeating any previous thread, but I have tried a GSC search prior to posting
A while ago I remember there was a discussion involving a paper crimper but this never worked well for me. Anyway, to keep it short, I noticed that Heinz Baked Bean tins have 'scale' corrugations.... and since , even better...... some tinned tomato cans are even better....

If you carefully (very sharp edges) remove the rim and the base with tin snips

you will have a section of scale, curved corrugated metal ready for trimming to size. I found it can be flattening fairly easily if required.

As I say above, sorry if this has been suggested before. Mods.... feel free to delete if so!
Regards
Rob

 

[bobg]

Rob, that looks just right , but I suggest you keep an eye on it if you're using it outside. Many years ago I made some cladding sheets for the cylinders on my 7 1/4" G loco, from tin sheet from an oil can, much the same as you have there though flat and perhaps a little thinner. Very carefully painted inside and out in rust resist primer, and then under' and top coated, again both sides. They only lasted for about a year before rotting away.

 

[yb281]

In a quiet corner of the garden I've got a little stash of corrugated cans going nicely rusty.

The wife sometimes worries about my sanity.

 

[johnslocos]

Gents
Steve at Back2Bay6 has just taken delivery of scale aluminium corrugated sheet.
He also has the capping for ridge roofs.
John C

 

[robsmorgan]

"Rob, that looks just right , but I suggest you keep an eye on it if you're using it outside....."

Thanks Bob. I tend to take everything except the track and bridges indoors so don't think it will be a problem. I do use a cheap rattlecan primer to give basic protection as in the example earlier.
I have also been experimenting with plastic corrugated card - the covered bridge has been out in all weathers for best part of a year... including the heavy snow (see my Covered Bridge post some time ago)
and has only suffered some loss of primer paint and a ding from being blown across the garden

Incidentally the 3rd video in my signature area below shows the turntable being easily removed for storage.

Regards
Rob

 

[tramcar trev]

Corrugated cardboard (single sided) can be made weather resistant by coating it with west system epoxy. The resin is absorbed by the fibres and becomes cardboard reinforced epoxy sheeting. Its available in large sheets and I intend to use it for the roofs of my Australian prototype buildings. We have Town halls and really very large buildings sheeted in Corrugated iron.

 

[tramcar trev]

In a quiet corner of the garden I've got a little stash of corrugated cans going nicely rusty.

The wife sometimes worries about my sanity.

Let me assure you that there is nothing wrong with your sanity..... I was talking to my shrink just the other day and posed the question - " so I must be insane if I'm seeing you, ergo I'm insane so tell me why am I surrounded by real nutters" she had no answer...... her husband is in to G scale big time and I think she just likes to probe me for ideas..... fortunatley at public expense....

 

[Rhinochugger]

It's the tomatoes that send you mad

In the distant past, when people ate off pewter plates, the acid in the tomatoes would eat into the pewter and the lead leached into what you ate...................

The model railways are sanity

 

[tramcar trev]

Cooking in aluminium, or in anyway absorbing dissolved salts of aluminium with give you, oh I've forgotten - whats it called??hell ...Oh yes dementia
Now seriously the corrugated cans would make really spiffy looking water tanks by removing the end flat sections and leaving cylindrical.....
I can see myself up on charges of molesting canned goods at the supermarket while fondling the lable to try and detirmine its use as a source of corrugations.....
I'm already banned for missuse of the PA system, all I did was lean over and say in my best "radio" voice " Checkouts 2,3,4,&6 are opening now" and watch the sething plethora of shoppers stuck at 1 checkout make a bee line to the other checkouts....

 

[robsmorgan]

"Corrugated cardboard (single sided) can be made weather resistant by coating it with west system epoxy. The resin is absorbed by the fibres and becomes cardboard reinforced epoxy sheeting....... "
Ha! Ha! Trev :clown: I know you have a New South Wales down there, but you should try REAL Wales weather - takes more than 'resistance' to cope with our rain some years... hardly a day since 15th July (St Swithen's day) has gone by without something between a shower or a 'stair rods' ......... summer !!!

Regards
Rob

 

[tramcar trev]

Na we have more rain at one town they get 2.5 metres of rain a year....

 

[robsmorgan]

OK you win Trev - that explains the deserts then!

Rob

 

[Dtsteam]

The trouble is, guys, that the west system epoxy dosen't come cheap in Wales, Canberra or Preston for that matter..... Best bet is to find someone into wooden boats and scrounge a bit...

[Kerrrching !- the penny drops - Trev - West system - Boat building - Murray river Paddlers ]

 

[robsmorgan]

Thanks for that David, I think you perhaps make the point well in your bracketed comment.......
the only reason I started this thread was because certain food tins (in the UK) have corrugations.... and therefor can be modified to create useful FREE corrugated sheets rather than a journey to the recycling plant

Rob

 

[tramcar trev]

Ross if unopened it should be ok. But when its opened if its out of date it will deteriorate fairly quickly. The cans are sealed with nitrogen in them to take up any free space and its oxygen that causes the stuff to go off.....

 

[tramcar trev]

The trouble is, guys, that the west system epoxy dosen't come cheap in Wales, Canberra or Preston for that matter..... Best bet is to find someone into wooden boats and scrounge a bit...

[Kerrrching !- the penny drops - Trev - West system - Boat building - Murray river Paddlers ]

True, not cheap at all. However I was probably just brand name dropping as just about any brush on resin is going to work - epoxy or polyester even, I venture to suggest, the 2 pack floor finishing resins would work as well.

I'm sorry for hijacking the thread, only thinking outside the box......

 

[Tony]

Just find your local friendly car spray shop and ask him to spray your cardboard with ANY colour left over top coat two pack paint, its so adsorbant when it drys you have what is in effect reinforced paint. it wont cost the shop anything and a drink in the pocket of a underpaid sprayer is allways welcome
when i had a shop i had a guy who built model areoplanes out of tissue paper and i often had a wing hanging up when i painted a car
idealy you want someone painting a plastic bumper as they ad a plastziser to stop it from cracking when it moves called a soft face aditive but if fixed to a building standard 2 pack will be fine

Tony

 

[robsmorgan]

That's the second hijack today Trev
[style="color: #0000ff;"]"I'm sorry for hijacking the thread, only thinking outside the box......"
[style="color: #0000ff;"][style="color: #333333;"]This thread started with a CAN !

 

[tramcar trev]

so I ran out of Green tea this morning, it helps stave off dementia... so dropped in tto my loacl asian grocery store and hey on the shelve are HUGE corrugated cans full of something asian.... turns out they are mushrooms of some chinese variety. the very helpful assistand could not fathom why I wanted the cans empty but directed me to a local Chines restraunt where they throw the cans away when empty. they measure about 150mm dia and stand 275 tall with a band of useable stuff aboy 200 wide

 

[robsmorgan]

[style="color: #008000;"]Brilliant Trev..... nobody more dedicated than a [strike]convert[/strike] canvert ....
[style="color: #008000;"]but are you taking the FREE idea a stage too far??? :holdon:
[style="color: #008000;"]p.s. will have to check with my local Asian restaurants now

[style="color: #008000;"]Regards
[style="color: #008000;"]Rob