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Cab for D16/3 and the usefulness of a bit of paxolin

Fen End Pit

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Having spent the best part of an hour making one splasher yesterday afternoon I finally found the best way to do it. A length of etch around 40mm long by 4mm wide with a half etched edge along one of the long sides needed to be bent around the curved plate for the side of the splasher. This was proving 'challenging' and nearly as much fun as the other job of the day, applying new mastic to the side of the bath! I finally hit on the solution which was to clamp the curved side etch onto a smooth off-cut piece of paxolin which was about 6mm thick. This meant I could then bend the strip into place and solder it on without trying to do things in mid-air. Having worked that out the second one went together in about 10 minutes.

 

Next up was the cab and this has been a bit fun too. The side panels had a half etched rebate around the windows and a separate etch for the window surrounds, not too much of a problem to solder in and clean up. However from my photographs the surround of the front windows looked just as prominent but the etch for the cab front was just plain. I found some scrap etch which gave me some strip material about 1mm thick, this was carefully bent to shape around the front windows and soldered on, once happy with the fit I filed the thickness down to about 5 thou to match the side windows. I think it was worth the effort.

 

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The cab sides were soldered to the cab front and then these needed a little filing so the bottom of the cab sides fitted with the curved footplate. This took quite a few attempts before I was happy with the results.

 

Back to work tomorrow so progress will probably slow to a trickle again.

 

David

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halfwit

Some very neat work on the window surrounds there. Strange how the kit provided seperate surrounds for the sides but not the front.

 

Paul.

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Jan

It looks like it will be a shame to paint this. Some cracking fettling and finishing.

 

How long do you think it has taken you so far? Only asking as I have a Gibson J15 that has been in stasis at this stage since 1996!

 

Cheers

 

Jan

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It looks like it will be a shame to paint this. Some cracking fettling and finishing.

 

How long do you think it has taken you so far? Only asking as I have a Gibson J15 that has been in stasis at this stage since 1996!

 

Cheers

 

Jan

 

Looking back through the blog I must have started the kit about a month ago as the first blog entry was the frames and gearbox and that was posted on the 2nd April.

 

I got the tops of the rear splashers on tonight, around an hour and half to add two bits of brass with a total surface area less than 10mmx10mm. Also I soldered an additional cross member onto the chassis and put a fixing bolt through the footplate.

 

David

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Jan

 

I got the tops of the rear splashers on tonight, around an hour and half to add two bits of brass with a total surface area less than 10mmx10mm. Also I soldered an additional cross member onto the chassis and put a fixing bolt through the footplate.

 

David

 

Ah.... two small bits of brass and a clock on fast forward..... some time in the late 80's, I spent a whole Saturday afternoon making two splasher-mounted sandboxes in order ot turn a Wills GWR'd (taper boiler) de Glehn back into into La France (parallel boiler)... t'was but four folds and two curves... I made the pair back to back, dressing the curves with the pair tack-soldered together, only to discover upon trial fitting that the thin whitemetal of the kit had rendered the curves of the splashers subtly different. ..

 

Cheers

 

Jan

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