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J39 - finally finished the valve gear

Fen End Pit

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After another entertaining Friday evening the valve gear is complete. I realized I had jumped ahead of myself in the instruction and missed the brake-hangers which need to be added and then have the central bit cut away, before the final part of the valve gear can be soldered in place. The result looks pretty fiendish, but it really is just an exercise in soldering lots of laminations of nickel silver together.

 

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When you put the body on you obviously can't see most of it, but I think it would be the case you would miss it if it wasn't there.

 

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Next up is the brakes, or as Mr Bradwell states in the instructions, 'now you have got it all going, time to put the brakes on and stop it all again'. I do hope not.

 

David

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Dave Holt

David,

 

The completed valve gear looks very good indeed. As you say, much of it will be hidden from full view once the body is on but, in my opinion, locos with high pitched boilers and, in this case, large frame openeing, definitely need some representation of the inside gear to give glimpse of what's inside and fill in the side-on profile. Well worth the effort, I think. Many otherwise fine looking models are spoilt by a gaping void between the frames with perhaps just a compensation rocking beam on view.

Best wishes with the remainder of the model. Perhaps we'll get chance to admire your efforts in the metal, so to speak, at some future Scalefour Society do?

 

Dave.

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