A few days has been spent on straightening the running boards, adjusting bolt holes and tweaking the running board brackets, sorting out the sandboxes and bending their plumbing to represent the drawings more accurately. The running boards have been riveted too hard and had bowed. Also the brackets to the frame aren't all square or required a shim to get them to bolt up without huge tension on them causing them to bend out of shape again.
A few sand box bolt holes on one side of the frame were 7BA and required fasteners made, who knows why they were tapped oversize only on one side.
Another mystery was why the bolt holes in the running board brackets were mostly out of alignment witb the tapped holes in the frames. There's no other position it could sit in place and so was a womder how many screws were in the holes to begin with...maybe just a few. So the holes were filed into some slots to get the bolts to fit. One of those jobs where assembly and dismantling was every 5 minutes!
Happy steaming!
Nigel
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