Concrete slurry tank

[GeorgeHInch]

As part of my work building out the the cement facility based on the Taiheiyo Cement Fujiwara Plant in Inabe I've designed and printed a bunch of structures found at the facility.

 

This project contains a slurry tank for mixing wet materials together. You can find the reference in the Taiheiyo plant here. For some reason in the Google Maps satellite imagery the tank looks incredibly green but most reference photos looked more like a milky, concrete color. 

 

The main body file is designed with a center bit on the bottom to place in a drill for painting. I placed a brush with various colors at marks that aligned with the mixing paddles and rotated the drill to get the circular patterns. I'm currently debating adding a model water resin with a milky white color in a thin layer on top of this but haven't decided if it would look right yet.

 

It's comprised of STL files for the main body, the walkway and the two pieces of machinery (rough models of a motor to control the mixing paddles and a motor to control the rotation of the walkway.) The file for the walkway is admittedly unnecessarily large because of the complexities of the mesh used for the slurry collecting on the paddles. After printing I realized they were much smaller (and far less visible) than I was thinking in my head. I did not modify since printing so you get what you get here.

 

The files are available on Google Drive here. Feel free to print and use them on your own layout and modify as needed. No commercial use.

 

[bc6]

Wow awesome models as usual thanks for sharing it.

[GeorgeHInch]

@bc6 Thank you! I have so many buildings to churn out still but I've really been enjoying the process. I've been using this to share and catalog my process as well.

[cteno4]

George, 

 

nice model, thanks for sharing both the process and files. I’ve been adding them to our 3D print file topic.

 

cheers,

 

jeff

[bc6]

@GeorgeHInch Youre welcome I get it, I enjoy the process of creating items from scratch and then seeing them come to life. Thanks for sharing again because I am pretty sure your buildings aren't available commercially.