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Next was to make a start on the ash shield, again something that I'd added to the model to follow the prototype. I am using some 1 mm steel here as it looks right and was what I had in stock. Picture shows the steel cut out roughly
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Continuing with the smokebox, I cut out the access in the smokebox tube and started work on the standpipe for the outside cylinder's exhaust. In the first picture, I have clamped the tube to the saddle ready for spotting through the 8 BA mounting holes. Firstly I filed
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Smokebox etc... On 4472 for my era the door hinges etc were burnished steel, I will use stainless steel to represent this look and also to remain looking this way with no corrosion, well that plan changed when it came to tapping some holes but I'll explain that
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Lamp irons and grab rails NB: the lamps are from JCT. The lamp irons are simple enough but thought that I'd share how I tackled these particular items as they are slightly different to the tender lamp irons covered before, hmm a god few years before at that.
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NB: When I first wrote this I was looking for some information in regards to the front running board hatch as it isn't on Don's drawing. I will include the various post's to show what I discovered and how I went about researching the
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NB: I loved making these little things, very prototypical After finishing the crank, I looked at the chassis to decide what to tackle next.. there's so much left to do ( I reckon that I'm only about 40% into this build) that it's very daunting
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I have now cut the axle keyways and as long as they are correct ( pretty confident of this) then I guess you could say that that's the quartering taken care off, well it is as long as I broach the wheel bores exactly along the centre line between
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So...Coupled Wheels NB: I will state from the beginning that I had a 'whoops' moment with these, soon corrected, never say die is my way of living..:) more details down the page. Don's castings are very good, very little flash and pretty concentric which is
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Main axleboxes continued, on to the important bit, well their all important but for this stage I have tried to be extra careful, after plotting the right hand side crank box centre (my datum) and then setting the vice, I spotted a small hole with a centre drill as shown
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Onto the axleboxes, Don has followed full size very closely without going to far overboard, such as no machined pattern on the slot faces or some of the smaller parts. His design does look the part though and ,of course, is a 'split box' design. I will try
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At this point I decided to do the name plates, I'd got used to seeing it in the reference photo's while working on the running boards so perhaps it's a good thing to get out of the way now. Some years ago Diane Carney
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Ok so the 'Smokebox ring' , I'm lucky as my son had given me a few off cuts from his work, two of which were perfect for the smokebox ring so it would have been rude not to make use of one of these very heavy lumps