Realistic Fuel Hoses

Hello and welcome to a Mon Railroad Academy video. In this video, we're gonna make model hoses. Hoses are typically found whenever you have a fuel pump, so diesel or gasoline pumps, either for the trains or for cars if you have that type of installation on your layout. But also if you unload a tank cars, so if you have a chemical unloading facility. Um, then you also will need to model houses and traditionally they have been made by cable isolation, made from cable isolation, but it's kind of stiff and hard to get that really realistic look from.

So instead, we're taking another approach, let's get started. So instead of cable isolation, I'm using soldering tin. And solderrington, well, that's something you do to solar cables and circuit boards. And it comes on a bobbing like this. This, uh, can be purchased in US and DGi.

Uh, it's a wholesale house for electronics. And I see here, it's a, a wide variety of, uh, thicknesses. If you're in Europe, then you, uh, can buy it instead from Alpha Dirlek. 0.5, 0.7, and 1 millimeter thickness is good to have on hand. So, I'm taking a piece of uh the soldering tin about uh a decimeter, about 4 inches like that.

And I'm gonna fit it to a fuel pump. Here's, uh, the fuel pump. This one's 3D printed, but these are available also in sets from the manufacturers. First thing I do is to clean the ser tin. That's because it has flux, uh, both on the inside and on the outside.

So now the paint should stick better to it. And I also typically use a primer. So this is a black primer, uh, black matte. So I'm happy with this. So now we can move over to assembly.

With a hold a knife, I cut the end straight. And then I removed the roof from my pump facility and measured the dimension from the. The pump handle to the ground, it's 8 millimeter and then I start to form the solder tin to desired look. And as you see, it's a really flexible, easy to form, and it stays exactly to the shape you shape it. So it's a really nice material to work with.

Making hoses and with that done I just assemble it using tweezers and fast set glue. Now I reassembled the roof on this fueling facility, and this is what it looks like. So now my fueling facility is ready to receive diesel logos for refueling. And from this view, you can see how I shaped the hoses and the natural look you get from solar tin. All right, so Mo hoses from solar tin, and as you might notice, 1 millimeter thickness is maybe on the thick side for fuel pumps.

0.5 or 0.7 is probably a better dimension for that, for chemical unloading facilities, 1 millimeter is a good dimension. And a word also on, on paint, uh, the paint comes off. If you bend the material a lot, which you do, uh, when you form the, the, the so the tin down, you will have typically some flaking, even though you have primed the the the so the tin. And it's just to add some extra matte black paint afterwards whilst it's, it has its shape, and you should be good. Thank you very much for watching this video.

I hope to see you in the next one.