Dean Goods 2500 gal tender Part 2
Entry posted by wenlock in Dean Goods 2500 gal tender Part 2
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Its been a couple of weeks since my last blog entry, so here's the progress on the Dean Goods tender build. Part 1 ended with the body almost completed, but with the chassis needing more work to finish the project.
Chassis at end of last blog entry
Setting up the brakes was the next step. The components were removed from the fret, cleaned up with a file and the holes drilled with a 0.8mm drill.
The kit provides a choice of brake shoes, one made by laminating etched brass components and the other from white metal castings. Both methods would I'm sure give an acceptable result from an appearance point of view, however I don't like brake shoes to be made from a conductive material. I'm going to use the tender wheels to provide additional current pick up from the track. Trying to get the brake shoes in close contact with the wheels and not cause a short is not my idea of fun, so I decided to make some non conductive duplicate shoes.
The white metal castings had nice detail, so I used these as masters and poured a mould around them using cold curing silicone rubber.
The masters were removed from the mould once it had set, acrylic resin was then poured into the mould and allowed to cure.
Once the acrylic shoes had fully polymerised they were removed from the silicone mould.
The acrylic shoes were then cleaned up and drilled to take a 0.8mm brass wire
0.8mm brass wire was threaded through the brake hangers, brake shoes and the chassis. Once happy with the position of all the components, solder was use to fix everything in position.
Once I was happy that the chassis was still free running with the brakes in place, Sand pipes and the vacuum pipe were bent up using 1.2mm brass wire.
The axle boxes and springs were white metal castings, so these were glued in position using a rapid set epoxy resin.
This completes the chassis build, so the body was placed in situ to check clearances and levels.
I'm pleased with the end result and think that the kit captures the prototype tender well. I'm going to leave improving the looks of the coal rails until i can get some half round brass wire from Eileens Emporium.
Before I paint the tender I want to complete the loco that's going to pull it. There's a rather nice looking Martin Finney Dean Goods kit, that is sat on my work bench and needs building, so that's all for now!
Best wishes
Dave
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