Happy Labor Day Weekend,
In a number of home layouts in Garden Rys, some of the structures have corrugated steel roofs. Is this something that you can make or is there a supplier from whom you can buy it?
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Muchas Gracias,
Dbl Stack
Go to Michael’s or a well-stocked craft or stationary store.
Buy a Fiskars paper crimper
Go to your recycling bin/bottle return bin/garbage can, and pull out one of them used soda/beer cans.
Take some sheet-metal shears and cut the can vertically, from top to bottom.
Cut all the way around just below the can top.
Cut all the way around just above the bottom.
Take the resulting rectangular sheet of aluminum and run it through the crimper.
Do it again.
Do it some more.
Experiment with different amounts of pressure.
Experiment with keeping the aluminum aligned as it goes into the crimper.
Now that you’ve really ruined that sheet, cut up another can and start over.
Now you’re on the right path!
Thanks for the tip. I’ll give it a go.
Dbl Stack.
Hey guys,
Sounds like something I would’ny mind trying myself. Gonna’ have to wait until later on in the week to get one of those crimpers. Later eh…Brian.
Stack,
go here to purchase plastic sheets of whole bunches of finished
http://www.appliedimaginationinc.com/precision_products/plastic_veneer_sheets1200.html
Try Lawrence “Yogi” Wallace’s site
http://www.stratuswave.net/~wd8jik/crimp/crimp.html
Richard
OK guys heres the secret of cheap, reeee–ley EASY corregated metal panels,
Go the Micheals, or any good craft store and pick up a paper pleater, the type used to create pleated paper party decorations. Then either at the same craft store or at your LHS pick up this…
K&S Engineering, www.ksmetals.com makes sheet soft metal rolls under the title “Create with Metal, Designer Metal Sheets” They Soft Aluminum rolls and Soft Copper rolls. I use the soft aluminum .005 thick 36 guage 12" x 30" roll stock #6025
This stuff can be cut with an Xacto knife and easily fed thru the pleater for perfect corrigated panels.
The problem with using aluminum soda cans is that it takes several passes thru the pleater to get a reasonable panel, and some times the pleating gets out of alignment and the panel looks bad.
With the soft aluminum one pass and its done then I use silicon adhesive to attach the panels to the building, i also use strips of the soft aluminum siliconed to the panels for roof caps and wall flashing sheet metal, dont forget those!
Hope this is helpfull. Vic
Found this in Garden Railways
http://tes.wirefire.com/index.html Note link will not work for me.
Sodders Enterprises The site for the new and unusual items for the discerning Model Railroaders and Model Builders. Products made from our own dies and molds. From cast plastic and plaster of paris to our own Corrugated Aluminum.
check tes.wirefire.com (do not use http)
The easiest source of corrugated curved steel in the Uk are Baked Bean tins.
regards
ralph
about 10 or 12 years garden railways published an article about making corrugated sheeting or using soupcans.[:o)][:o)][8][
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