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1st 7mm loco

nigelb

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Pete Mullens G7 arrived on Monday , I was good in that i waited till tonight to begin.

 

The chassis is well thought out with tabs and slots on sensible place's first stop was to cut of the S7 spacers and compensated frames ( i am F7 modeling and not compensated)
These were therefore scrap so i had practice on soldering the frames together no problems so I cut out and cleaned up the correct bits

 

and assembled as per instructions. I found I had to ream out the bearing holes a fair bit to ensure a nice fit. The ashpan sides baffled me for a bit until i realised there were 2 etched lines one on each side . a hold and fold was very useful for bending these and the spacers.
next stage fitting the Ash Pan lever ............ er what does it look like I have asked Peter for a list of numbed parts so thats it till it arrives.

 

I could not resist putting the driving wheels on and it will just need a little fettling as the axles were a tad tight in the bearings

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N15class

Did you set up the wheel bearings using the coupling rods. It is important to do so as you can't rely on the etching being correct. I assume you have built locos before and understand the difficulties of the 4-4-0 Nd 0-4-4's

What you have done looks very neat and tidy.

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