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I recently bought the GEM kit of Dolgoch, as I just happened to have the Arnold chassis donated to me a year ago and I've been planning to have a go at this little loco, as it's about as close as I think I'll get to a Sandhutton loco, which themselves were well tanks, albeit with outside frames and walshearts valve gear. In 009 that isn't getting scratchbuilt (not by me anyway!). Below are a couple of photos of one of the Sandhutton locos, and Dolgoch so you can see the similarities (and yes, I know they aren't identical!)
Anyhow, the GEM kit is very nicely moulded with very little flash and just some faint casting seams to get rid of, and a dry fit of the parts held itself together pretty well! I've been wanting to have a go at whitemetal soldering for some time, and this morning I finally took the plunge and once I got the temperature right on my Weller WHS40, starting low and working upwards, I found a temperature that would melt the Carr's low melt solder and have it flow in the yellow flux, but not wreck the castings. The first couple of joints were not quite hot enough, so they didn't hold, so I cranked up the heat a little and bingo!
Below are a couple of shots of my first steps, and I'm quite pleased with them. I'm looking forward to getting it done and painted now (oh, and I could maybe do with getting my layout working again! (http://www.rmweb.co....scrayingham-009)
Of course this is going to end up with me needing a couple of Talyllyn coaches to go with Dolgoch, I already have one, so that's a start!
Any comments, questions or general advice are as always, most welcome!
Thanks for looking!
J
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