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Chronicles of building a 2mm Scale Association kit of a BR Class 09 0-6-0 diesel shunter

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Building a 2mm Class 09 - Part 5 - More work on the chassis

June 2007: I was unhappy with the worm gearbox. With just the motor and worm fitted (no gears) it was very rough compared to when the motor was out of the gearbox. Flexing the gearbox did allow the motor to speed up, but I just could not make it stay like that. Eventually I realised the gearbox had folded up not square. I removed the bearing from the far end and the worm rod was naturally hard against the side of the mounting hole rather than in the middle. I took the gearbox apart at the fold l
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Ian Morgan

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Building a 2mm Class 09 - Part 4 - Brakes

3 Feb 2007: Last night's session started by me having to free up the rusting worm tube and extract it from the bearing. I cleaned it up again with emery paper, and got everything running freely again, but left it dismantled this time. I must put some oil on it to stop it rusting again.   Having dismantled everything, this evening was a less-than-exciting session of drilling .35mm holes (the smallest surviving drill I could find in my toolbox). Twelve holes in the chassis, and another 18 in the
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Ian Morgan

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Building a 2mm Class 09 - Part 3 - the chassis

20 Jan 2007: I started by cutting up bits of the axle steel into bits approximately 3.5mm long, using a vice and slitting disk. The gear muffs were drilled and reamed until the axle steel would push into them (1.6mm drill was used eventually).   I fitted the lay shaft with the gear at each end first, using a 1.5mm drill first, then pushing it through with one of the short lengths of axle steel. This method worked quite well. The larger gear was catching on the stretcher tab, so it was fi
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Ian Morgan

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Building the 2mm Scale Association kit for an 09 - Part 2 Motor and Gears

13th Jan 2009: Last night's session was to be remembered for the things I forgot, like my glasses, and soldering iron.   First of all, I corrected the previous week's mistakes, as pointed out on the VAG. The errant frame spacer was repositioned to the top of the frames, and Dave Stratten let me have a spare motor bearing so that I could complete the gear box. Getting the worm onto the tube was tricky, but do-able. However, it seemed to close up the tube so that the motor not longer fitte
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Ian Morgan

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In the beginning

I started chronicling the construction of my 09 on another blog elsewhere, but it did not seem to get much readership, so I have now started moving it across to rmweb where it might be of use/interest to more people.   5th Jan 2007. Was it really that long ago I started building my 2mm Scale Association 08 kit? This is what I wrote then:   After checking the box contents, and the contents of the CD on a laptop, construction started.The instructions are clear and well illustrated, but definit
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