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My first thought for today was to fit the leading coupled axle so that I could turn the chassis over but realised that in doing so I wouldn't later be able to fit the brake shaft and cylinders so I inadvertently found my next job, the brake shaft,
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Return Crank: Lots of pictures for this job. First up to show what's actually being made, this is Don's drawing which more or less follows full size, in fact, the only thing that may be different is the width of the slot which looks a little
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Last time I laid out my plans on what to do next, one of the jobs on the list was to radius the axlebox slots and that's what I have made a start on today, hopefully I'll get all 6 boxes machined by the weekend. First
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Spring Hangers, or in fact machined bolts, simple enough but there's twelve of them. Specs are 1/4 Hex head, a plain shank of 5/32 x 1" long and a thread of 5/32 x 40 at 11/32 length. First, the shank including threaded section
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Next on the list is the spring gear for the main drivers . I think I have most of what's required, I bought the spring steel some time ago and since it mainly consists of small components there's a good chance that I have what I need,
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NB: There's not that much work from me on these very important parts as the expansion links were water cut and if you recall the weighshaft was CnC'd by my son for me, I still needed to assemblem them and make them look prototypical which is
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Well tonight see's 4472 with the first bit of colour, yes I managed to get paint on the inner frames. It's a little warm for enamel's really but I left it till late afternoon and got the paint on. Before that I needed to
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Continuing with the painting, deciding to paint now was not really my first choice, this decision has been made for me in a way as yesterday I was kindly asked to attend this years Bob Todd LNER memorial day, some of you probably know of this and may attend. This
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Nb: There was a lot of editing for these updates so please forgive me if they aren't totally clear So I now look at the painting and a few other parts, in preparation I have removed the smokebox, running boards, cab and front buffers. I have cut all
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NB: You know, when I reread these updates and edit them to make sense I sometimes look in awe at what work is involved in making what basically is a true miniature of a full size Gresley Pacific, totally amazes me where I found the determination and stamina, I still
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Next I wanted to machine the rear of the bore and after giving it a little thought I decided on using the boring head in the mill for no real reason other than I can see what's what a little better when in the vertical orientation. First picture
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Now we come to one of those jobs that I am most apprehensive about, it's not that there's anything particularly difficult about this but there is very little, actually probably zero allowance for any error, we are of course talking about the middle cylinder. I knew