RSS Fetcher Posted January 29, 2010 Share Posted January 29, 2010 After a long stressful January, punctuated by Snow, Colds, Virus, friends and relatives in hospital, minding granndson for a week at a time, I have finally made a start on the build. Michael Edge, quickly supplied the missing bushes. Thank you. I also took his advice to build a rigid frame. I decided to make a tool to punch rivets, from odd bits hanging around. Its just a bit of threaded bar, a few bolts, a screw, and half a dozen larger diameter bolts for the weight. It managed to produce rivet impressions, of consistent size, but not a clearly defined as I would like. My attempts at soldering the chassis are very much on a learning curve. I tried heating the joints dry, and then feeding in the solder, with the result that there is a lot of excess solder around each joint. I think I will try tinning the pieces before mating them together, to see if this will produce a neater soldered joint. I managed to drop solder into one of the axle bushes (my own clumsy fault). I thought I had managed to remove it, but this wheel now revolves less freely than the other two. I also failed to check the squareness of the chassis (as per instructions - so my fault again), after tacking in the first two cross braces, with the result that I had to 'persuade' the chassis back into alignment. So, after a slow start, I hope I can move faster with the next stages. View the full article Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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