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Can anyone tell me where I can find corrugated roof material for my G scale buildings, or how to make it?
Thanks,
Cracker Pete
P & S Central RR
Lake Alfred, Florida
Boy this Q comes up often. do a search in the Garden RR forum under “corrugated” and you’ll find a bunch of suggestions.
heres mine…
K&S Engineering Metal Foil rolls “Soft Aluminum” sheets cut to size the rolled thur a craft store paper crimper. Far easier than using old soda cans cut to size and rolled thru a crimper. Then use silicon adhesive to attach down.
Cracker Pete,
Vic is right this does come up quite often a stroll thru this part of the forum would get you all kinds of information. just a few right off would be
http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=29802
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http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=30907
http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=30880
I’m sure there are more those are just from page 2 of this forum.
Good luck on your search.
Jack
I posted a reply to this subject on another thread a couple months back. I wrote that I’d had very good results crimping .010 thick Evergreen sheet styrene. I’ve now had a sample of that roofing in the sun for about three weeks and find that the corrugations tend to “relax”, probably from the heat. So thin styrene is not a good choice.
I’ve also been using the aluminum cans for stock recently and find that corrugating this material without annealing produces a sheet superior to that made from “soft” aluminum stock which tends to distort easily from any kind of bump or pressure. I use two small clamps on the crimper to hold the rollers together and have yet to see any ill effect on the crimper. Remember, if it takes little pressure to put the crimp into the metal, it will take just as little pressure to take the crimp out of the metal.
Walt
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mike
a few years ago someone suggested using the siding from soup cans
Paul,
That looks sound on paper but just maybe using a nibbler (air powered) would cut down on destorting the metal. Not sure have not tried it.
As for the Frisker crimper the people at Micheals look at me crazy when I can not find it and then when I show them a photo of it (from the web) they go “Oh yes, we have that, come this way!” …after 20mins they could not find it and they told me they do not “special order.” Normal day for me!!!
But I would suggest to stick with Walt’s thing as to use soda pop cans and “IF” you can find the crimper then go for it!
Hi All,
There is an advertisement in the back section of the Garden Railways Magazine on page 126 for CORRUGATED ALUMINUM. The company is Sodders Enterprises, 609 Edgelawn Street, Parkersburg, WV 26101 and there website can be found at tes.wirefire.com I tried the website as it is printed and it does work. Good Luck and hope this was a help.
Ron
about using soupcans for siding , that was in grr about 10 or12 yrs. ago.
For several years I’ve been using soft copper roof flashing. Home Depot has it in two varrients, with and without tar backing adheasive for around $20 for a 50 foot roll. Thin enough to cut with CHEAP “kindergarten” scissors. Then run through the roll crimper I got at Michaels. cut to 4" x 5" segments, any longer and it will start to “walk” sideways. Wash the sheets in 1 part dish soap, 20 parts vineager, 30~40 parts water. This removes any oils and chemicals from the copper. After running through the corregation crimper it is ready for spray paint, or leae unfinished and coper patina will set in in about 3~6 months, depending on your local climate.
Safety Caution: Wear leather gloves or have a new box of band-aids on site. You WILL get cut.
I found using rug runners, rippled kind, painted silver or gray and then “rusted” with rust colored primer spray paint, it look good , requires little time and is water proof. and very inexpensive. remember 10 foot rule