[Dwight Ennis]

I own the Micro-Mark saw. It's a terrific little tool, an using the high fence and featherboards (extra accessories), I've cut 1:20 scale redwood 1 x 10s (0.05 x 0.60) and 2 x 4s (0.10 x 0.20) with ease.

All the wood to make this water tank (including the tank itself which is built up board by board) was cut using that little saw...

Same for this backwoods sanding facility...

The Proxxon looks like pretty much the same saw for less money, though you may still need to get the high fence and featherboards from Micro-Mark. I found the stock fence that came with the saw pretty much useless for this kind ow work... it wasn't nearly high enough.

 

[Dwight Ennis]

Posted By Les on 03/09/2009 7:05 PM
Steve,

I'd like to copy your sand house and water tank. Mind?

(Beautiful work--and I'm gettin' closer to starting. No, really, this time.)

Les



Are you talking to me Les? If so, thanks, and I wrote the water tank up years ago as an MLS article. You can find it here[/b][/b] complete with downloadable plans. It's essentially an O scale kit which I scaled up (and slightly compressed depth-wise).

The sanding facility is also essentially a scaled up O scale kit.

 

[Dwight Ennis]

Yeah, at least on the earlier locos there was a lid. Here's a photo of the Bachmann Climax sand dome...

and the Bachmann Shay sand dome...

Forgive the dust and webs. These haven't been run in years - ever since I got into live steam - but they were convenient to snap a couple of quick photos.

Besides, this is what I was running when I built the backwoods tank and sand facility.

 

[Dwight Ennis]

Les - you will find a few more photos of it on my web site under "Structures."

 

[Dwight Ennis]

Les - glad you got what you needed.

I had to disable the Guest Book years ago because of the bottom feeders inserting spam into it.

rpc - I never cut anything so large on the Micro-Mark saw that I saw the need for an outfall table. Still, it shouldn't be too hard to make a small table surface of appropriate height that sits/clamps behind it. I saw Norm Abrams make a similar outfeed table for his huge cabinet maker's table saw.