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Diesel Electric D16/2 part 4


sleeper

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Just a short blog to keep you up to date. I mentioned before how it was more difficult to attach the ends onto the end of the sides as opposed to between them due to clamping a long length. This has proved to be true. I made up a jig to hold the two parts with clamps, and got the two sides attached to the two ends. However one corner wasn't quite to my liking and also when I saw the photo it became obvious the completely flat ends weren't correct

 

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The next photo shows quite clearly there is a definite bevel to the face

 

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So with this in mind I decided to remove both ends and modify them. I did this by cutting out a section 6mm wide with a razor saw, through the support bar and halfway through the layers of the end panel. Then using a steel rule for support I carefully bent each side of the end panel inwards to create the bevel on each side seen here from above

 

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I didn't get away scot free however because all the bending caused the outside layers to be stretched which in turn separated the layers which needed re-gluing.

I'm currently putting a slight bevel on the ends of the side panels to accommodate the bevelled end panels and re-gluing the ends on. The jig used previously was no longer suitable so a new method has had to be devised. Problems, problems, problems!

 

more info later

 

Roly

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