Ladder for oil tank wagon, please.

[Sarah Winfield]

Just to enhance my oil tank wagon, does any member have 2 ladders please. I will pay for them.
Thanks,
SW

 

[royale]

Hi Sarah - I made some for my tanker out of an old cake cooling wire tray - just cut some out with a pair of pliers and cleaned the cuts with a file - quite quick and easy.

 

[Sarah Winfield]

Thank you Royale.

Sounds like an excellent idea and opens my mind to other possibilities. I don't have a cake cooling tray but other things might just do equally well.

SW

 

[ebay mike]

I don't have a cake cooling tray but other things might just do equally well.

SW

Have a wander round Poundland - there's a wealth of potentially useful stuff if you have an open mind. The mesh to keep leaves out of gutters makes brilliant wire netting fences for example.

 

[dunnyrail]

The square Galvanised Chicken Wire is also useful, I have used it for fences but ladders would be fine as well. Just chop off the unwanted bits as close to the edge as you can with nippers. I have even made an oversized sifter out of this stuff, with some legs earth sifting is a breeze.

 

[Sarah Winfield]

We all need legs otherwise our bottoms would be on to the ground and wouldn't that be inconvenient!

SW

 

[David1226]

We all need legs otherwise our bottoms would be on to the ground and wouldn't that be inconvenient!

SW

Worse that that, it could be a pain in the arse.

David

 

[Walts-Playmobil]

Sarah what make of tanker is it as the ladders for the Playmobil tankers are still available?

 

[Sarah Winfield]

Hi, thanks for your post. It's actually a LGB chassis with a PIKO, or cheap chinese tank.

From the top of the chassis where the tank sits it needs to be 9/10cm to a platform on top of the tank.

How long are the Playmobile ones please?

Thanks,

Sarah Winfield

 

[dunnyrail]

Hi, thanks for your post. It's actually a LGB chassis with a PIKO, or cheap chinese tank.

From the top of the chassis where the tank sits it needs to be 9/10cm to a platform on top of the tank.

How long are the Playmobile ones please?

Thanks,

Sarah Winfield

This is the Galvanised stuff I mentioned earlier, if nothing else come up happy to pop you some in an envelope. Bit wider than the ones on the Bachman Tank Wagon but perfectly ok in my view.

 

[Sarah Winfield]

Thanks for the offer and a great idea. I'll wait and see if anything else pops up.

SW

 

[playmofire]

The Playmobil ladder is straight so wouldn't work.

 

[Bill Barnwell]

Sarah, I made mine with brass wire and brass strips, put netting over the brass strips to make look like expanded steel super glued on and painted, the ladders are brass wire I think 1/8" with the rungs soldered in place then cut to length, smoothed and painted, Bill

 

[Bill Barnwell]

Forgot, also did my ladders for my drover caboose the same way