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WCPR No 5 Part 3 - cab and tank


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As the car was in for a service today, I worked at home. This means I didn't have my usual 'joy' of commuting into Bristol. By the look of the state of the M5 again, I'm glad I stayed at home.
What this really meant was a couple of hours that I would normally have spent gazing at the back of the car in front was put to better use. Much better use.
I'd finished fretting out the cab sides and had soldered up the basic pieces last night after I updated the blog. Today was all about cutting and soldering the tank and boiler.
I'm pretty much doing exactly what I did when I built the first Manning Wardle (No 3 Weston), except thankfully No 5 doesn't have any rivets to worry about, being all welded. So really it's all about forming pieces of metal with a scrawker and a piercing saw, then soldering them. This means I can make quite quick progress.
The tank starts with a number of formers, made by sweating together 4 layers of Nickel Silver, then cutting out the outline and a semi circular inner edge for the boiler. The formers are soldered to two strips of scrap etch which form the tank bottoms, then the tank wrapper is added from 5 thou brass and the whole thing tidied up.
The boiler is a length of brass tube cut to length, the upper half (under the tank is cut away) and soldered in. The motor should fit inside but if not I can remove some of the inner tank formers now the tank and boiler effectively form a box.
I've a selection of brass tubes which telescope over each other which will make forming the eventual smoke box fairly straight forward.
The smoke box door came from the spares box and is cut down from something left over from a Finney T9. The stove pipe chimney will also come from this source I hope.

 

So, here are a few photos with the assembly roughly held in position with some strategically placed blu tack.
Don't know how much more I'll get done this week, but we'll see.

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