TLOC
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As the weather was nasty Sunday as Mother Nature was prepping to dump the white stuff on us, she made sure to wash away all the dirt and grime out on the streets like excess salt and sand. From 8am Sunday to 8pm when the snow started we received in my weather station 1.71” of rain. The weather guy after the Oscars on tv said the area had about 1/3” of glazed ice under the snow. Didn’t matter to me as Terry was at her puzzle board and making soups in the kitchen. Me, except for a 20 minute nap at 2pm I mostly was at my bench.
Working on the bleach plant wall. 10” high and 20” long with a depth of 2”. All framed up!
Started a kitbash of the brownstock building. I was asked by a couple folks on a Facebook weathering page what a brownstock building is:
Separation of Fibers: After wood chips are cooked in the digester, the resulting mixture consists of cellulose fibers and spent cooking chemicals (black liquor). The brownstock process uses large vacuum washers to separate these two components
• Chemical Recovery: The building's primary goal is to wash as much "black liquor" out of the pulp as possible. This liquor is sent to recovery boilers to be recycled
• Pulp Preparation: The output of this building is "brown" pulp (hence the name). This pulp is clean of chemicals but still retains its natural lignin color before it moves through the pipe manifolds to the Bleach Towers for whitening.
Taken from a DuckDuckGo search which I believe is a Ai generated answer
Years ago I purchased a series of built up kits and left over parts from a buddy getting ready for his final year and did not want his wife to have to dispose of his layout. When he passed his wife said take all the buildings and do what you want with them. This will be the JB Reed brownstock building in his honor. In the early 80’s he gave me my 1st tour of a paper mill. 60 minutes in the pulp press room at the Mosinee Paper mill in Mosinee, Wi. where then the main product was the paper toweling found in USA public restroom to dry your hands. I remember the heat and humidity to this day. I was fascinated with so many questions! That was the only part of the mill we saw that day. I felt like an idiot later when we were at dinner and I realized our whole hour was spent in the pulp prep room that is now called the brown stock prep area elsewhere. It’s been 20+ years since my last tour so have no idea what they call the press room now after at least 3 new owners since I retired in 2014. I did eventually see each part of the production process over the years usually an hour at a time.
So I have these parts, the tan and maroon colored walls in the picture. The space is 4” wide x 11” long x 6” high. Compression is a bit..!
The building should fit before the 2-12” pipes (aka bleach towers someday) covering the circles on the yellow base board template.the front wall of the building will have the window openings bricked in. The coloring will be different remember this is a kit bash
Still looking for the right position
The walls are dry stacked
This is where I’ll stop. The black Sintra wall has had a Vallejo Surface primer sprayed on it and I let it set for 24-36 hours. It’s been since
4pm so maybe tomorrow before I’m able to work on it. It’s too big for the dehydrator. That will be the bleach plant front facade wall. Mainly a place to add and support the maze of pipes that will run through this area
I have not settled on placement. I know though the position of the 4 bleach (grey pipes) towers will be different
The brick is in where the windows were and the glue is dry but curing. Today I will add some stiffens to the back side of this wall. The pilasters will be a concrete color to match other pilasters within the whole paper mill. The bricks will be sprayed to match even though the friend this is being built for says leave them. One of the bricked up window opening will get a pipe array running through it. This is 1965 and the paper mill was in the finishing part of a 10 year old upgrade. Paper mills especially in the older sections were notorious for knocking out a wall and doing something new there.
This is a Ai generated image of the pipes coming off the roof of the brownstock building into the bleach plant. I was interested in the pipe assembly
Slowly moving along
Working on the bleach plant wall. 10” high and 20” long with a depth of 2”. All framed up!
Started a kitbash of the brownstock building. I was asked by a couple folks on a Facebook weathering page what a brownstock building is:
Separation of Fibers: After wood chips are cooked in the digester, the resulting mixture consists of cellulose fibers and spent cooking chemicals (black liquor). The brownstock process uses large vacuum washers to separate these two components
• Chemical Recovery: The building's primary goal is to wash as much "black liquor" out of the pulp as possible. This liquor is sent to recovery boilers to be recycled
• Pulp Preparation: The output of this building is "brown" pulp (hence the name). This pulp is clean of chemicals but still retains its natural lignin color before it moves through the pipe manifolds to the Bleach Towers for whitening.
Taken from a DuckDuckGo search which I believe is a Ai generated answer
Years ago I purchased a series of built up kits and left over parts from a buddy getting ready for his final year and did not want his wife to have to dispose of his layout. When he passed his wife said take all the buildings and do what you want with them. This will be the JB Reed brownstock building in his honor. In the early 80’s he gave me my 1st tour of a paper mill. 60 minutes in the pulp press room at the Mosinee Paper mill in Mosinee, Wi. where then the main product was the paper toweling found in USA public restroom to dry your hands. I remember the heat and humidity to this day. I was fascinated with so many questions! That was the only part of the mill we saw that day. I felt like an idiot later when we were at dinner and I realized our whole hour was spent in the pulp prep room that is now called the brown stock prep area elsewhere. It’s been 20+ years since my last tour so have no idea what they call the press room now after at least 3 new owners since I retired in 2014. I did eventually see each part of the production process over the years usually an hour at a time.
So I have these parts, the tan and maroon colored walls in the picture. The space is 4” wide x 11” long x 6” high. Compression is a bit..!
The building should fit before the 2-12” pipes (aka bleach towers someday) covering the circles on the yellow base board template.the front wall of the building will have the window openings bricked in. The coloring will be different remember this is a kit bash
Still looking for the right position
The walls are dry stacked
This is where I’ll stop. The black Sintra wall has had a Vallejo Surface primer sprayed on it and I let it set for 24-36 hours. It’s been since
I have not settled on placement. I know though the position of the 4 bleach (grey pipes) towers will be different
The brick is in where the windows were and the glue is dry but curing. Today I will add some stiffens to the back side of this wall. The pilasters will be a concrete color to match other pilasters within the whole paper mill. The bricks will be sprayed to match even though the friend this is being built for says leave them. One of the bricked up window opening will get a pipe array running through it. This is 1965 and the paper mill was in the finishing part of a 10 year old upgrade. Paper mills especially in the older sections were notorious for knocking out a wall and doing something new there.
This is a Ai generated image of the pipes coming off the roof of the brownstock building into the bleach plant. I was interested in the pipe assembly
Slowly moving along
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