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Ken Hamilton
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« Reply #15 on: March 29, 2012, 10:42:05 AM »
Oooo...Oooooo...I want one of those popcorn machines....!

Food for thought - Another area to look at is refrigerator magnets,
which is how the stove on the left side of this photo of the Rainbow
Motel diorama started life:
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« Reply #16 on: March 29, 2012, 10:50:09 AM »
Further to Ken's suggestion ... there were a variety of Coke-machine (and/or cooler) refrigerator magnets that scale close to 1/24 ... Dallas
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« Reply #17 on: March 31, 2012, 10:07:27 PM »
I was chatting with my friend about wanting to find a model and he said another on of our friends actually made a hydrant a while ago and he might actually still have the molds so I might be in luck!
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« Reply #18 on: April 01, 2012, 11:32:30 AM »
It is not the desired scale, but it shows a great model implementation of a German fire hydrant in scale 1:22,5.
Leo documented his way from the drawing to the cast white metal model here (google translated).
The original German thread can be seen here.
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« Reply #19 on: April 01, 2012, 08:11:59 PM »
I was in Chicago for a few days and took a bunch of Hydrant pics. Here are a few:






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« Reply #20 on: April 03, 2012, 12:34:24 AM »
Hi Jester,

tidying up my front garden from the "presents" some nice school kids occasionally leave for me came across this .............. thought it might be of interest



Believe it is the top off a Krispy Kream Doughnuts package , with a piece of scrap pipe it might be the start of a hydrant ?
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« Reply #21 on: April 04, 2012, 08:24:16 PM »
Looks like an ICEE lid to me.

Mmmmmm..... ICEE........

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« Reply #22 on: April 05, 2012, 09:33:13 AM »
That would be a huge hydrant!!

Here's the one my friend made. I hope I can get the original molds!
It was made in Solid Works and printed on a 3D printer.



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« Reply #23 on: April 05, 2012, 01:01:40 PM »
That's sweet. How big is it?
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« Reply #24 on: April 05, 2012, 01:50:58 PM »
It looks to be about 4 inches tall. I don't have one yet but judging from the mouse and the phone it's close to 4 or 5 inches.
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« Reply #25 on: April 05, 2012, 11:00:09 PM »
It must have cost a fortune to get something that large printed up.
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« Reply #26 on: April 06, 2012, 01:07:30 AM »
The same question like Ray, what does it cost to prototype such a big part. What about the strength of the material?
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