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I decided that it would be wise to test fit the hangers along with their cross beams before moving on to the pull rods. You can see the brakes hanging in the 'off' position, No drama here but as expected I will need to re-shape the steam
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Some new bits ready to be assembled later, these are laser cut stainless steel sections which when cut/joined and silver soldered will become the hinged fall plate. that's the steel footplate which is hinged to the cab floor and drops down onto the tender wooden floor. These
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Brake beams The next stage for the brakes was the brake beams, the beam flat sections were cut by Malcolm (MEL), the end pins needed to be machined. Using my normal method I did these in two parts which were then silver soldered together. To help keep them all the
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Not much to show for the end of this week but I have made a start with the brake pins which are now completed. Two lengths although there's only 1/32 in it. The smaller pins are 7/16 long from the head and the others are 15/
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As planned I have made a start on the main vacuum pipe which runs the length of the loco and tender, in fact, the whole train but you guys knew that anyway.. I started with the connection below the front standpipe, at first I had thought that there would be
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As I said last week, this week I'm fitting the gravity sanders, having looked at this area, I've also decided to catch up and some of those many small jobs that are outstanding. I'll talk about these during describing the fitting of the first
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This will be the final chapter on sanders other than when I refit them to the chassis, hopefully on Monday. All of the parts have now been made and tested, except for the long control arms for the gravity sanders, I'll probably make those when the running boards
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Good evening chaps..ok so a slight change of plan... after I posted the last update it was pointed out to me by Kevin Fisher and Peter Pope (FB) who I believe both worked on 4472, that I had copied the wrong ejectors, evidently the ones in my photo from
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As well as playing around with sand today ( i checked to see if the sand worked as planned, it did) I have also made a start on the trap shields, since these look like castings full-size they look could be a good subject for those among you who have
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I spent today finishing the filler tube for the driver's side and then repeated the process for the fireman's side. A few pictures to show/help explain my thinking... first shows the tube pushed through the frames and into its mount. the csk screws are temporary,
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Having given this some thought, I decided that the next job that must be done is to make the sandboxes. I did mention before that I'd need to do the gravity boxes before I could fit the outside cylinder slide bars but having now finished the inside connecting
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Inside connecting rod I then made a small start on the inside connecting rod, my thinking is to get the inside motion done first as it's relatively easy, well not in as far as the components are concerned but in relation to there being much fewer parts when