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7mm Scale Aspinall Saddle Tank, Buffers


dikitriki

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Hi

 

I had a little play last night with the buffers. The stocks come as brass turnings, which are fine as far as they go. Except that they are round (they should be clipped top) and they have no details (there should be 5 bolts securing the buffers to the beam). The first part was easy, the flat could be filed on the stock. There second problem is a little trickier. Time to live up to my moniker :)

 

I needed a jig first of all if I was going to drill the holes, and I came up with the idea of using a Slater's axle washer which was almost a perfect fit on the back of the stocks. I carefully marked out and drilled 6 0.4mm holes, evenly spaced around the washer. Brilliant, only in the wrong place, too near the centre. Being mean, and unwilling to sacrifice another Slater's washer, I split the differences and drilled another 6 holes further out.

 

Now it was a case of tack soldering the washer on the back and drilling the 6 holes through the stock, removing the washer and moving on to the next stock. This was entirely successful, even if the washer looked a bit diseased by the time I had finished. The Scale Hardware bolts (yes, I think I satisfy Scale7JB's criterion as a rivet counter)were soldered in, the stocks cleaned up, and hey presto, proper buffers.

 

I took the following photos this morning....and was horrified to see how rough the turnings looked. They honestly do not look that bad in real life, but I am going to have to finish them off better. I also note that one of the bolts is not seated properly. Aren't photos depressing, you can see all your mistakes <_<

 

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Richard

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Yes that turning does look rough, but as long as you can't feel anything they will ok. You quite often get that with production turning where the tool moves much faster

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Hello Richard,

Glad to have found you on the new RMweb, I enjoy watching your work.

Have to agree with you about the photos, a decent camera and lens show everything up especially when seen on a large display moniter.

Out of interest have you made a start on the MOK 4MT yet, an excellent kit by all reports and I look forward to seeing your efforts on this one.

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Nice work Richard. icon_thumbsup2.gif Sometimes, making jigs can be a real chore, but the end results, as in this case, are well worth it. Methinks I'll have to invest in some of this Scale Hardware stuff too. smile.gif

 

 

Regards

 

Dan

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Have done the same with some turned Fourtrack buffers - the Scale Hardware bolts make such a difference. The sanding stick SH chuck in free with orders is rather useful for removing the cusp on fine etchings too.

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Hello Richard,

Glad to have found you on the new RMweb, I enjoy watching your work.

Have to agree with you about the photos, a decent camera and lens show everything up especially when seen on a large display moniter.

Out of interest have you made a start on the MOK 4MT yet, an excellent kit by all reports and I look forward to seeing your efforts on this one.

 

Hi Christian

 

It does take a bit of time locating everyone on the new board doesn't it?

The MOK 4MT is unstarted unfortunately. Since getting involved seriously in my layout, all my plans and timetables (such as they were) have gone out of the window, and loco and stock building has very much taken second placed to layout work. I mentioned that I had 3 locos to build to set the layout's location, and while the 4MT would be ideal, it's at number 7 in the list at the moment - Aspinall Saddle tank, Aspinall A class, Crab, 8F, Black 5, Fairburn, 4MT. As to the hydraulics........

 

I still look in on your Warship regularly for updates.

 

Regards

 

Richard

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Hi Christian

 

It does take a bit of time locating everyone on the new board doesn't it?

The MOK 4MT is unstarted unfortunately. Since getting involved seriously in my layout, all my plans and timetables (such as they were) have gone out of the window, and loco and stock building has very much taken second placed to layout work. I mentioned that I had 3 locos to build to set the layout's location, and while the 4MT would be ideal, it's at number 7 in the list at the moment - Aspinall Saddle tank, Aspinall A class, Crab, 8F, Black 5, Fairburn, 4MT. As to the hydraulics........

 

I still look in on your Warship regularly for updates.

 

Regards

 

Richard

 

The Warship has come to a bit of a standstill, so near yet so far.

 

I had the opertunity to visit 'Onslaught' while it was at the WSR and took loads of close up pictures of the bogies. The DJH/Tower kit has very little detail in the way of brake and handbrake linkages and now I know how it all works and where it all goes I hope to incorporate it all in my model.

Apart from the bogies and cab interior it's all but done.

 

Like you I have other builds on the go, Class 60, Class 143, DJH BR Std Class 7 and well as a Class 56 and a Finney A3 waiting to be built. The Finney A3 is realy tempting me to make a start on it but I must finish the Class 60 first.

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Hi Richard,

 

great work there as usual. Four Track used to do the correct buffers, but when they closed, like a lot of similar products, they dissapeared - for ever? lets hope that somebody re-introduces them.

 

regards

 

Mike

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I think I satisfy Scale7JB's criterion as a rivet counter

 

I set a standard ?? :lol: :lol:

 

I did the same recently for the buffers on the K2. I used some rivets that I got from Eileens at Telford as the SH order hasn't come through yet. I created a template on a piece of sheet brass... and 95% of the holes were in perfectly the right place...

 

It was definitely worth doing for the K2 as each buffer stock has 9 holes... 6 large rivets and 3 smaller ones. There must have been a weakness on the real thing somewhere to warrant so many fastenings.

 

Oh where oh where is my SH order.. I'm all psyched up for some rivet counting !! :lol: I should think the problem lies on the UK side rather than the US side what with all these promises of strikes...

 

JB.

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