In between the other booked-in jobs (as previous written on the blog) work continued on the Pansy
Some of Pansy's parts were ordered from Polly Model Engineering UK and arrived in the mail, I was pleased with how friendly and helpful the staff were. Included with the order was some of Doug Hewson's brake hoses and also the lost wax cast marker lights.
The running boards had proved to be a pest, as there were several holes and countersinks that misaligned with the other bits, or no longer were required. And more work to replace them than patch the holes and re-drill. So the holes were tapped and plugs made and silver soldered in.
The running borads were shy of the buffer beam at the back of the loco (no overhang) so the back end was cut off and some strips silver soldered on (won't be seen other than what protrudes from under the back of the tank).
The running board tapped holes in the buffer beams were found to be stripped and at an angle so they were also removed, tapped oversize, and plugged. At this time the riveted angles on the backside of the buffer beams had been causing stress from over riveting and the heat on the silver soldeirng and the cold rolled angle on the buffer beans became bent concave from all the stresses being relived from the rivets and cold rolling process. So they were carefully straightened in the press.
On furuther investigations I decuded to take a 1mm skim off the face of the front and rear buffer beams to get the running boards hanging over some more and have some material to trim them up square.
With all the regression and discoveries of the above it was also decided while the buffer beams were off to make up the vacuum brake hoses and the plumbing for those. A few tools were needed, a jig for silver soldering the plumbing at right angles and another press tool for making the saddles.
More photos to come in the next few days
Happy steaming!
Nigel
Some of Pansy's parts were ordered from Polly Model Engineering UK and arrived in the mail, I was pleased with how friendly and helpful the staff were. Included with the order was some of Doug Hewson's brake hoses and also the lost wax cast marker lights.
The running boards had proved to be a pest, as there were several holes and countersinks that misaligned with the other bits, or no longer were required. And more work to replace them than patch the holes and re-drill. So the holes were tapped and plugs made and silver soldered in.
The running borads were shy of the buffer beam at the back of the loco (no overhang) so the back end was cut off and some strips silver soldered on (won't be seen other than what protrudes from under the back of the tank).
The running board tapped holes in the buffer beams were found to be stripped and at an angle so they were also removed, tapped oversize, and plugged. At this time the riveted angles on the backside of the buffer beams had been causing stress from over riveting and the heat on the silver soldeirng and the cold rolled angle on the buffer beans became bent concave from all the stresses being relived from the rivets and cold rolling process. So they were carefully straightened in the press.
On furuther investigations I decuded to take a 1mm skim off the face of the front and rear buffer beams to get the running boards hanging over some more and have some material to trim them up square.
With all the regression and discoveries of the above it was also decided while the buffer beams were off to make up the vacuum brake hoses and the plumbing for those. A few tools were needed, a jig for silver soldering the plumbing at right angles and another press tool for making the saddles.
More photos to come in the next few days
Happy steaming!
Nigel
