I’ve just about had enough of trying to fit the doors on my Walthers roundhouse. My next step is gluing them permenently in the open position to allow access for the locos.
I saw in a recent thread that there was also overhead doors. Does anyone have a photo or a website that I could see and scratchbuild them?
Don’t feel bad, my Atlas rh has been without doors for at least 5 years!! Ya can’t make somthin’ that small work with a 7 year old operating it!![angel][:D]
Interesting. I just put mine on my Atlas RH and didn’t have any trouble at all. They work pretty good. [%-)] (and I act like a 7 year old most of the time![:P])
Bruce, if it is of any consolation to you, I found the same thing. Two of my doors don’t want to be retained by their pins, so I just to the best I can and leave them open. Too much of a pain fiddling with them.
If you find one pair that does work, consider just using them open or closed as examples of what “should have been.”
-Crandell
Add another one to the list of permanently glued doors. The roundhouse I built for my modular club had the same problem. A bit of glue, and problem solved.
I think that roll-up doors were mostly retrofits to older roundhouses, and I haven’t seen any pictures of them. Either that or they were only used on later construction roundhouses.
Out here it was common for roundhouses not to have doors.
Just imagine it is summer and the roundhouse workers appreciate the light and air flow coming with doors open.
Besides, don’t you like the view of the backsides of tenders?
Mark
Never having assembled a roundhouse of any scale I have absolutely no idea how the doors are supposed to fit but I have had problems in other areas; why don’t you quit for the moment and get back to them when the snow is gone!!!
Here is another one with the same problem, glue them stuck I’ll tell ya! How often do we need t open and shut the doors anyways?
Well, atleast I can sleep good tonight knowing that I’m not the only one with that problem.
Magnus
Would a “smidge” of silicone caulk or a tiny o ring between the door frame and the door’s hinge pin allow one to have enough non-damaging friction to allow opening and closing as once has the urge?
For my era, hinged wooden doors would have been long gone. I replaced mine with roll up door housings and some plastruct shapes to represent the track.
This one isnt’ a roundhouse, and is a little busted up, but you can get the idea. I used a styrene tube cut to length and capped on each end, and a couple of bits of plastruct track for the side rails. Some fine scale chain would and a pulley wheel on one side would finish it off nicely.
If you don’t mind closing off one stall, you could use some corrugated styrene sheet to make a door that is partially or fully rolled down. I’ve you’re careful with your cuts, you could make it so it can press fit between the rails, so you don’t have to permanently glue it.
Lee
I have two roundhouses, a 9 stall Heljan and a 5 stall South River craftsman kit. The Walthers came out shortly after I had already started my layout. Since I already had the Heljan plus two add on stall kits and it is roughly the same dimensions as the Walters, I decided to stay with that. While the doors will swing open and shut, I leave them open all the time. I figure with plastic hinges, it would be just matter of time before they broke off anyway. The doors on the craftsman kit were a hassle to get to work so I just glued those open as well. Since I model the summer time, I don’t see any reason the doors would be closed. Most of the old pictures I see of roundhouses either had the doors open or no doors at all. It might be nice feature to be able to open and close them, but from a practical standpoint, is it really that important.