Animated Ice House
Joe Balcer is one of our club's best mechanical designers and is
quickly becoming a great modeler. In this little project, Joe combines his two
skills to create an animated accessory for the new SJSG layout (which is under
construction). The ice house features a
reefer at the loading dock getting loaded with blocks of ice, and one of the two
ice chutes has moving cubes of ice that actually fall into the waiting reefer!
Of course, Joe won't tell me the secret of what happens to the ice once it gets
into the reefer . . . and I waited while they loaded the ice for 20 minutes and
never found out!
These images are thumbnails, click on an image to see the
full-size picture.
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Joe Balcer designed and built the Animated Ice-House
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The right ice chute features moving blocks of ice that
actually drop into the open hatches on the reefer car.
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This image shows the blocks of ice moving down the chute.
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Here's the good stuff!
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Joe "Metalman" Balcer is our go-to guy for
anything mechanical in the SJSG.
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