Rotary OY Clears The Way

Richie dont loose heart dam fine model anyho...:thumbup:. from the look of things i think the panel below the rotor is the problem as its hitting the snow before the blades have a chance to touch the snow could you not fit a triangle shaped card pointing forward a few mm above the rails so it cuts under and into the snow forcing the white stuff over the top into the blades

Tony
 
Tony said:
Richie dont loose heart dam fine model anyho...:thumbup:. from the look of things i think the panel below the rotor is the problem as its hitting the snow before the blades have a chance to touch the snow could you not fit a triangle shaped card pointing forward a few mm above the rails so it cuts under and into the snow forcing the white stuff over the top into the blades

Tony
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I think you could be right there Tony the panel does seem to stop the snow from entering the blades ,it tends to just push it up into a mound which goes into a block of ice . I found when i threw the snow into the blades it made a good job of blowing it out . Will get the plow in the work shop and have another go at fixing the problem :thumbup: All good fun :bigsmile:
 
Cheers Ian & Colin glad you enjoyed it :clap: Will get it running right one day just need the right kind of snow :thumbup:
 
Hi Richie
Well done in getting her running again. I had great fun trying to get my USAT Rotary through the 6 inches of snow! I had to keep on unclogging her. The flanger worked great but was quite hard for the locos to push with the rotary......three locos next time!!!
I only cleared enough to get the ski train with the sd70 up and running.
Me piccies are on the 'Snow comes to BCRR...'
 
beavercreek said:
Hi Richie
Well done in getting her running again. I had great fun trying to get my USAT Rotary through the 6 inches of snow! I had to keep on unclogging her. The flanger worked great but was quite hard for the locos to push with the rotary......three locos next time!!!
I only cleared enough to get the ski train with the sd70 up and running.
Me piccies are on the 'Snow comes to BCRR...'
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Cheers Mike any video footage of your OM plow working ??
 
Looking at a pic of the OY the cutting blades have no scoops in front of them so i may take out the front scoop on mine to see if it makes a differance .
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Richie said:
beavercreek said:
Hi Richie
Well done in getting her running again. I had great fun trying to get my USAT Rotary through the 6 inches of snow! I had to keep on unclogging her. The flanger worked great but was quite hard for the locos to push with the rotary......three locos next time!!!
I only cleared enough to get the ski train with the sd70 up and running.
Me piccies are on the 'Snow comes to BCRR...'
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Cheers Mike any video footage of your OM plow working ??
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Not this time. It was so cold and I was so intent on getting the stuff onto the rails and controlling the train that I just sopped it and took stills. The front of the USAT cutter does look like the real one with movable blades and all, but it too has a bottom flange that is different to the real thing. Obviously the Rio Grande boys removed it to make it easier to get to the snow.

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Cheers Mike for the close up pic of the USA Trains Rotar housing it's looks just like how i made mine with the scoop on the base .
 
i think the main problem was the wet icy uk snow! I have ploughed very succesfully in sub zero fluffy snow but last week no joy. I agree try moving the scoop - interesting that this has all happened in 1:1 judging from photos above.
 
CoggesRailway said:
i think the main problem was the wet icy uk snow! I have ploughed very succesfully in sub zero fluffy snow but last week no joy. I agree try moving the scoop - interesting that this has all happened in 1:1 judging from photos above.
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Hi Ian
I think that some of the problem was the snow as it was very wet and icey and just got pushed into a mound have changed the front scoop a bit, spray painted it tonight with red oxide primer . Will post some pics later.
 
You are up early Shawn, or is it late?.......
 
Shawn said:
Great video ichie. Your line looks great with snow. I love that rotary it came out great. Wet snow is tough to work with I think most plows would struggle in wet sticky snow.
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Cheers Shawn have just made some changes to the front scoop of the plow won't know how effective they are until it snows again .
 
Well it is certainly look terrific and is ready for action Richie. Reckon you could test it with dry sand! Might strip the paint though............and anybody else standing near :rolf::rolf:
 
Cheers Mike will have to get some ploystyrene balls and give it ago :rolf:
Do like your pic across the bottom with your ski train and SD70 :thumbup:Did get chloe and Sara to add a pic to mine following your instruction from before but had no joy down loading will have to try again one day .
 
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