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RT Models Hudson Tipper - part 5.

halfwit

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I've been busy fitting the end details on these two wagons.

 

First the angled strengthening brackets were fitted, there are four of these per end;

 

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I held the chassis lightly in the rubber jaws of my vice when soldering. There are tabs on the brackets which locate into slots on the end plates, however care is still needed to make sure everything sits square. This is where soldering comes into its own as the bracket can be tacked, checked, repositioned, checked, and so on until you're satisfied that everything is nice and square. The bracket on the left above is fully folded to shape, on the right hand bracket I've left the longest (angled) fold flat to make it easier to hold the bracket in tweezers. Only after I was finally satisfied with the position did I fold the angle over. I took several days over fitting the brackets rather than rush.

 

The next job was to fit the centre locating pins and the end stops;

 

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All pretty easy really. To fit the end stops I tinned the top of the end plates, held the stops in place with tweezers, then applied heat from underneath, effectively sweating the joint.

 

All soldering again done with a 25W Antex and 188 degree solder. I thought that I might have to step-solder at some stage but so far that hasn't been necessary.

 

Still more work to do but I'm getting there;

 

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Paul.

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Arthur

Nice work Paul, I've a pack of these to build myself sometime, so this, and Adams build, have been very interesting.

 

Which vice are you currently using? I recall we had some discussion on a thread about them a while back.

 

Arthur

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Thanks Arthur and David. (And thanks to all those that have pressed 'like'.)

 

This vice Arthur, which has turned out to be a very good purchase although I have had to fettle the jaws with a file. Thread here.

 

David. I recently purchased a couple of books published by the Moseley Railway Trust, one on the history of Robert Hudson Ltd, the other purely on Hudson's n.g. 'Rugga' skip wagons. Hudson recommended that the bucket capacity of the loader to be 1/3 the capacity of the wagon, to prevent overloading, otherwise they recommended use of a filling hopper. A bit more about these books on my other blog. I have an Corgi Ruston Bucyrus face shovel which, with a bit of reworking, would sit nicely with these wagons.

 

Paul.

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