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A "Tail" of two "Dogs" Part 3


Dukedog

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Latest up date on the "Two Dogs" project.

 

Whilst I am waiting for motors and gearboxes to arrive from Scalelink I decided to do a bit of work on my own "dog"

 

The Dukedog arrived from the seller on Ebay nearly all built but painted in GWR green. As I wanted mine in BR black some real cleaning up was needed.

 

I tried paint stripper but found out that the loco had been stuck together with 2 part epoxy and NOT soldered!

So, Major strip down and reassembly using 70deg lo melt solder. I took the opportunity to put the chimney on straight too!

I changed the safety valve bonnet for one that looks like a GWR safety valve bonnet and not an upside down whiskey glass! I have also found and modified to fit a cast white metal top feed. These were only fitted to a couple of Dukedogs, the one I want to model (9021) being one of them!

Another "must do" was to fit sprung buffers, This entailed replacing the buffer beam for an etched brass one and soldering to the front of the running plate and outside frames.

Anyway here's the loco as it stands today 7/11/12

 

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Note that I am not using the tender that came with the kit either. The tender as supplied by K's is a reasonable representation of a GWR 3000 gallon tender but, as far as I know all the Dukedogs on the Cambrian were paired with 3500 gallon tenders.

As luck would have it I had a spare Bachmann 3500 gallon tender in my spares box, so, that was attacked with a knife and Dremell to produce what you see above.

The tender is now ready for it's first coat of primer but the loco still needs more work before it hits the paint shop.

 

More on the "Two Dogs" soon!

 

Cheers

Frank

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  • RMweb Gold

Nice work Frank.

 

Looks like it's all coming together nicely.

 

Cheers,

 

Mark

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  • RMweb Gold

You will be much happier having rebuilt it. You can iron out all the little things that would niggle.

Don

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Did you use the K's chassis but with scale link motor and wheels?

 

On the "Dukedog" (shown above) I amusing the K's chassis, Home made axles, K's steel tyred wheels, Markits fly cranks and the original K's 5 pole motor.It will use a Romford 50:1 gear set when it arrives.

The front bogie is all K's original but will have some more detail added.

 

The "Bulldog" (Not shown on this blog entry) will use the K's chassis, Romford wheels, axles bearings and cranks (supplied by the client) and a Scale link motor with 40:1 gearbox.

 

Just been looking at pictures of my chosen prototype and there is a heck of a lot of detail to add to both chassis and body of 9021.

 

Here's one for the pedants!

looking at the pictures in various books 9021 appears in some pictures to have fluted coupling rods, on other pictures of the same engine it has plain rods fitted!

There was obviously a lot of part swapping going on at 89C!

 

Cheers!

Frank

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Hi Frank

 

Good to see you at the Wolverhampton show at the weekend. Good luck with this venture; I watch your posts with interest.

 

Terry D (aka TerryD1471) from his home not a million miles from 89C's principal sub-shed.

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.Here's one for the pedants!

looking at the pictures in various books 9021 appears in some pictures to have fluted coupling rods, on other pictures of the same engine it has plain rods fitted!

 

You could fit fluted rods on one side, and plain on the other! Then it'll be 50% right no matter what!

 

Paul.

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