Fast and easy pallets!

[Remgain]

Hi!!

Would you like to add some typical stuff to your harbour pulp scenery? Or to your beautiful post-atomic scenario?
Here's how I managed to built a hanful of pallets in one hour...

1) Get some naval modelling wood listels (2 and 3 mm wide) and dowel (2 x 2 mm). And, of course, white glue!!
2) Place the listels as in the following picture (3 + 2 + 3 + 2 +3 mm) leaving a small gap between the listels.



3) Glue 3 segments of dowel. The outers should be about 20 mm form each other. The third in the middle.



4) Glue 2 other segments slightly on the side of the extreme, the gap has to be enought to insert a cutter blade.



5) Continue to glue segments of dowel, following the same pattern.



6) When the glue is set, cut each pallet from the row with a cutter.



7) On the bottom of each pallet, glue 3 strips 3 mm wide.



Et voilà!!  Of course you can built the pallets with every kind of material (plasticard, hardboard, etc...).



And now... a sneack peek of my new project, directly connected to the pallets...



Hope you like it!!

Ciao
Marco

[Dewbakuk]

Very cool. Gas or electric powered?

[Remgain]

@Dewbakuk

GAS!!! It should be dated around '30 '40...

[D@rth J@ymZ]

Great idea. Simple yet effective.

[Sangennaru]

, that's brilliant!

i was thinking to cast something similar... but i have to resign, after this!

[midismirnoff]

Inspiring! I must be doing some as well.

[aircav]

Simple but effective & Totally Brilliant 

[Hammers]

A Gold Star from the Workbench Moderator to you, Remgain. Just for being so practical and creative.

[Remgain]

A Gold Star from the Workbench Moderator to you, Remgain. Just for being so practical and creative.

Wow!!
Thank you very much!!

[Silent Invader]

Neat! 

[former user]

neat thx

I also included some for my freight trains, but bought plastic ones from model railway suppliers

btw
does anyone know when these were introduced historically?

[Wirelizard]

Doing them as a long unit like that is a very elegant solution to the "thousands of fiddly tiny pieces of wood" problem that was bugging me whenever I thought about doing palettes.

I think I'll have to swing by our local hobby shop over the long weekend and pick up a few bucks worth of basswood now!

[FramFramson]

neat thx

I also included some for my freight trains, but bought plastic ones from model railway suppliers

btw
does anyone know when these were introduced historically?

A couple of minutes with Wikipedia gives us some info!

It seems like there some crude models of both lift trucks and pallets (single layer nailed to stringers) introduced just before and during WWI, but that modern pallets and forklifts as we would recognize them were mostly introduced in the late 20's/early 30's. They would have remained somewhat uncommon until WWII, when their use really started to take off. Fully modern electric forklifts started appearing in the mid-50's by which point most warehouses and factories would have had forklifts.

[AndrewBeasley]

For older ones this may help:



And from 1926 (still working):


Some nice side shots at http://www.clarkmheu.com/cms/index.php?id=17

Andrew

[Agamemnon2]

That's really quite handy, I wish I'd thought of that when I last needed a whole lot of urban clutter. Oh well, there's always next time.