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Has anyone every built an asphalt plant in 1:50. I have been thinking it would be a good winter project this year. I would like to model a plant in the 500 ton-per-hour range with four to six silos, large baghouse, single mixing/heating drum, and at least a couple of large bulk liquid storage tanks. Any Ideas on how to speed up any of the scratch building would be great! Something simular to this below. 
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Start eating some Pringles. There is your silos
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Barkerjoh wrote:Start eating some Pringles. There is your silos LOL looks like a plan to me!!
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kokosing Const Co wrote:Barkerjoh wrote:Start eating some Pringles. There is your silos LOL looks like a plan to me!! I'd use 4" ABS drain pipe sections for silos, and lots of plastruct for the walkways and detailing. S.
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3" and 2" poly pipe for the towers..plumbers offcuts. Slab of flat poly for the topp of the bigger towers.
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For silo's/tanks you can use pill bottles, Pringles cans, PVC, really anything. Walk ways, obviously plastruct. And a piece of plywood for a base.
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I built a crusher spread in 1/50 ( jaw, cone, power van, and four convayors) and it took me about 4 years just working in the winter.
im planning on doing an asphalt plant as well but have too many other projects to finish first.
I look forward to following this thread.
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Hi, this is my first post but I have been reading the forum from it's first ever post. I have done a 1-5/0 scale cement plant dio and the first thing you need to do is make sure you have plenty of room for the plant in the picture. My dio is 4'x5' and I only have 2 silos for the powder cement, batch plant, small office, small maintence garage, 2 conveyors, 4 hoppers, 4 material bins to feed hoppers, parking for mixers and trucks for dry bulk cement, fuel tank and wash out area. I only planned on it being 2'x3' so looking at the plant you are replicating you may need an area 8'x10' or maybe bigger. I also plan on doing an asphalt plant but only two silos, a lot smaller than the one in your picture. Very time consuming, it took me about a year and I'm still adding details. Good luck with your build.
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Hi this is my dio so far and still need a lot more to do. I been working on it for the last year. 200-300 hours or more. Hope to see you make your plans first and we will be more than glad to see your progress. Good luck with it and for the main columns i used what ever works even a trash bottle will work with some imagination. My dio is 15x6-1/2 ft with a garage and some fermentation tanks.to the left. 
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Thanks everyone for the input. I have a spot about 3'x7' picked out for the plant. I may have to go with a smaller plant to get to fit in my spot. I have seen that platruct make ladders, handrails, and stairs in O scale. I think I can make that work for a 1/50 scale plant. When I move again I should have more space for the bulk material stockpile area. I will need a spot about 5'x5' at a minimum for stone, RAP, etc.
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My whole cement plant is made out of plasti struct and schedule 40 pvc for silos. The cones made on the bottom of the silos for the dry cement to get to the batch bin are made from the thinnest plasti struct. You create the cones the way they showed you in grammar school out of construction paper. As far as the bins to hold your material, I made mine 32' in length and 16' in width and goes from 8' to 20' in height from front to back. I have 4 bins in total, where I'm located some companies have their material delivered to them on a daily basis again these are not big plants but they seem to work in this area. I also have 2 levels, the higher level being where the hoppers are loaded and I achieved this by using 1" 2x8 styrofoam on top of one another. Where the higher level is I created a concrete retaining wall with scaled 2'x2'x8' concrete blocks which were carved into the styrofoam with an exacto knife and then run a flat head screw driver thru the knife hole with the skinny side of the flat head.the bins are formed concrete walls which were created by cutting the thickness of the sheet in half with a hacksaw blade and the end result after using the blade actually looks like formed concrete on the styrofoam.
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Basketball Man wrote:Has anyone every built an asphalt plant in 1:50. I have been thinking it would be a good winter project this year. I would like to model a plant in the 500 ton-per-hour range with four to six silos, large baghouse, single mixing/heating drum, and at least a couple of large bulk liquid storage tanks. Any Ideas on how to speed up any of the scratch building would be great! Something simular to this below. I haven't made one before, but this company Plastruct: http://www.plastruct.com/Home.html seems to have everything you would need. You can download their catalogue as a PDF and line up all of the walkways, piping and tanks. :D Best of luck with your project.
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I found some thick cardboard tubes from the paper rolls our plotter uses at work. Looks like the sides of the silos. I am going with some shorter silos at about 28' tall. Each silo should still be able to store about 125 ton of 1:50 asphalt.  
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Let me know if you want to have the base of the plant be paved instead of gravel. I know a trick for pavement.
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Basketball, When your all done your going to paint it green as in a retro Barber-Greene plant right???
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61BG wrote:Basketball, When your all done your going to paint it green as in a retro Barber-Greene plant right??? I have not decided a color yet, however I like the tan color of the Astec plants
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Working on the material bins and then you can the the silos in the background. 
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Very nice work so far Ethan! If your doing an asphalt plant and dio do you plan on having a asphalt recycling operation on site if you have the room? Almost every asphalt plant site has a recycling operation on it.
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any thoughts on making this plant a portable one?
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