Electric Power Plant Cooling Tower

Was browsing the bay and came across this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Manufacturing-P...040132?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item1c1ce7d6c4

I am working on a power generating plant and this looks like it would fit right in. Looks pretty nice for the price. I am amazed how cheap they can ship from Japan

 

How big is your plant, it could get expensive if you need a lot of them. You can make your own

 

Nice, but mine is just going to be a small generating plant. Don't have the room anymore for anything big

 

could you post some dimensions for the cooling tower you have built that looks exactly like what I need for my sugar factory!

 

I will do some measuring and the plastic that I used and get back with you.

 

I've bought from them before with no problems, for what it's worth.

 

Those are really cool looking and might have to purchase a couple of them. Thanks for the info

 

The cooling tower size is 8 1/2" long, 4" wide at the top of the tower, and 3 1/4" to top of cooling fans. The side were made from Plastruct #91552 3/16" Clapboard turned upside down. These are the basic sizes if you need others let me know.

 

Those are part of a whole set released by TomyTec recently. For some reason the parts of this set have been more expensive then regular TomyTec buildings; I think some of the parts may use the sharper molding method used for Kato and Tomix stuctures (TomyTec buildings usually use a cheap molding process but hide it with good factory painting and weathering)

There is a picture at the top of the page, but if you scroll down past a few items there is complete product information (in Japanese) and a gallery of photos
http://www.tomytec.co.jp/diocolle/lineup/jyoukei_k/index.html

 

John , you read my mind on these. I just have no room for a power plant.

Mike

 

Plaza advertises SAL shipping costs for most buildings/track/scenary. SAL is about half the price of EMS but it is limited to small packages (those newer Kato office towers are too big be shipped SAL), it doesn't have tracking or insurance and can take several weeks to arrive. SAL packages are low priority and are held until there is extra space to fill on a plane or they've been waiting for a set number of weeks, whichever comes first. Besides cost the one advantage of SAL is that it will often fly under the radar of customs, so you frequently save duties or taxes.