JeffP Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 Slidebar: square section brass with a piece of square section tubing sliding on it? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppercorn Posted December 14, 2015 Author Share Posted December 14, 2015 Slidebar: square section brass with a piece of square section tubing sliding on it? Thanks. That might be the answer, Jeff: I'll see what tube is available Cliff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffP Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 You can probably get solid square bar for the slidebar, with square tubing to fit over. try Eileens or Albion. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppercorn Posted April 27, 2016 Author Share Posted April 27, 2016 And today's deliberate mistake is.... You know the old saw about measuring twice and cutting once? I wish I'd been more careful in measuring, that is, I should have measured the length of the chassis and used its measurement. As it is I am now faced with an unenviable choice: shorten the chassis or make a new footplate. I'd started a separate post under soldering, and can attest that it took me a good while and lots of tries to get to that footplate. Rats! Rethinking required (including "why not go out and buy one...?") Depressed Cliff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppercorn Posted October 26, 2018 Author Share Posted October 26, 2018 A microstep onwards....footplate No. 2 which does fit... For the time being I'll put the chassis - which does at least work - to one side as I'd like to make a start on the bodywork 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Asterix2012 Posted December 12, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 12, 2019 Hi Cliff Any more progress? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppercorn Posted February 8, 2020 Author Share Posted February 8, 2020 (edited) Hello, Asterix - no, no further progress on this. I stalled over the crosshead. However, I've just got a price list from 'Branchlines' and see that they do single bar type, so I'm ordering some. They'll be for another locomotive, but might fit the bill. - Oh, I forgot that I was going to try some square section tubing.... I've been tracklaying and doing a couple of other projects including trying to accurately bend up sheet metal - nickel silver, actually - for a J1 that I've wanted to build. This has involved me in making a jog (now on mark 2) and torturing lots of rectangles of said nickel silver until I get it right. I attach a photo of mk 2 jig. Edited February 8, 2020 by Peppercorn Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppercorn Posted December 17, 2022 Author Share Posted December 17, 2022 Well you couldn't accuse me of fast working. The trouble is I have a number of other things I want to do, for example, painting and learning the baritone sax, both of which are time sinks. However, I have made up the cylinders and their spacers together with slide bar - 1mm square section. Next is to make the crossheads, for which I have an idea, but this has to await the end of the forthcoming Christmas break. And speaking of which, Merry Christmas, all! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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