Pansy

Finally have been able to get a blog app that seems to work on my new phone!

For the Pansy I have fitted some boiler securing grubscrews to the smokebox. And also made a short series blowdown valve which has a grubscrew in the valve. Makes much more clearance behind the side rod so that the valve can't unscrew and foul the
rod.

In looking at all the fittings and different suppliers I have come to find it is8 very difficult to cross reference across suppliers and find the standards and dimensions that the parts may be made to. So I have fortunately been able to find some old Model Engineer articles and LBSCs and Martin Evan's write ups. Plus all the goodies that come up on various forums.

My intention is to make some close scale fittings for the cab where we have that luxury.

Happy steaming!

Nigel

8/6/18 - Britannia

Some time was spent in the shed today looking at the cab and it's structure and where it is going to sit.  The Norman Spink drawings I have don't have a lot of dimensions so there are some approximations to do.

I've been making a "setting out" drawing of the heights of the buffer beam, and cab and some of the other things like the running boards made from the drawings I do have.  Thankfully there were some dimensions I could add up from the parts to work out where things will need to sit, and the brackets to support things.

Happy steamin!

Nigel

6/6-7/6/18 - Britannia

After the front buffer beam was fitted up, the rear drag beam was checked and it wasn't sitting level.
It was dsimantled and found to have some bolt holes that had been elongated and were preventing it sitting properly.  The paint was peeling.  So it was sand blasted and cleaned up and undercoated with etch primer and reassembled.  The slotted holes were driled out to clean them up and that has made it sit just fine.

The cab has some potential to look quite nicely detailed.  There's a bit of work in the platework to make it look right, fitting fasteners and doing some of the finish off jobs. The plate underneath that attaches to the drag beam will be checked out to see if we can use it.  The cab will be set up on the loco to see what has to be done to fix it up and establish where it sits.

Happy steaming!

Nigel