General Rubber Company.

[Sumpter250]

If you process used tires, you will need a large elctromnagnet to remove pieces of steel belts from the ground-up rubber.

Hmmmmm. and, an occasional pick up of the "recycled" steel.......one more type of rolling stock to make scheduled visits, and possibly, one more loading dock door......or overhead bin.

[Brakie]

If you process used tires, you will need a large elctromnagnet to remove pieces of steel belts from the ground-up rubber.

Hmmmmm. and, an occasional pick up of the "recycled" steel.......one more type of rolling stock to make scheduled visits, and possibly, one more loading dock door......or overhead bin.

Guys,Fear not..General Rubber receives production scrap from manufacturers that produces rubber products and that may be car defective floor mats,rubber fishing lures (like worms minnows) rubber balls that failed QC,and other like rubber scrap in trucks..This scrap rubber is ran through a chopper and then a blender..Then finish product is rubber pellets which is loaded into covered hoppers or into gaylords for shipment by truck.

In this process there is no tires..
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John,I will probably use a "concrete" foundation made from solid square ABS plastic.

[Catt]

We have several roads that have been repaved with asphalt that contains ground rubber from used tires in the mix.The paving seems to hold up a lot longer than the normal stuff.

My point being I'm thinking of taking your idea and running with it to make a rubber processing plant to do the above operation.Since alot of this ground rubber is jobsite mixed I would be able to use both trucks and covered hoppers for transportation.The fun part would be making all those wornout tires.

Now all I have to do is remember this idea for about a year so I can impliment it on the layout.

Thanks for the idea Larry .

[Brakie]

We have several roads that have been repaved with asphalt that contains ground rubber from used tires in the mix.The paving seems to hold up a lot longer than the normal stuff.

My point being I'm thinking of taking your idea and running with it to make a rubber processing plant to do the above operation.Since alot of this ground rubber is jobsite mixed I would be able to use both trucks and covered hoppers for transportation.The fun part would be making all those wornout tires.

Now all I have to do is remember this idea for about a year so I can impliment it on the layout.

Thanks for the idea Larry .

John,No problem..Sound far better then mine.

Now the bad news..The General Rubber project is delayed till at least Friday..They shipped HO buildings instead of N Scale.

[Catt]

John,No problem..Sound far better then mine.

Nah,almost as good maybe :mrgreen:

Will you be posting progress reports as you build ?

[Brakie]

John,No problem..Sound far better then mine.

Nah,almost as good maybe :mrgreen:

Will you be posting progress reports as you build ?

I will post some pictures ...From start and some building of the kits.

I hope to have this project complete in 3 days.

Why three days for a simple project? I allow time for the glue to cure on the sub assemblies.