Yorkshire Dave
Western Thunderer
This just goes to show the ingenuity we have to build good models for those of us who do not have or have access to fully equipped engineering workshops.
Nick Dunhill's 7mm W (A6) or Whitby Tank Workbench
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This just goes to show the ingenuity we have to build good models for those of us who do not have or have access to fully equipped engineering workshops.
Martin Field
Western Thunderer
Nick, I couldn't make anything without a vice to back me up. But like I said I suppose it depends what you're making. I also use the vice as a small section of elevated bench, to cut down upon or act as a bench hook when filing (like your block of wood with the nails). I open it slightly and put the back of the piece in the gap. Sometimes you want to file all round something without the hassle of constantly undoing the vice and resetting.
Nick Dunhill
Western Thunderer
It's Ok Martin don't fret I have a vice.
Heather Kay
Western Thunderer
Steph Dale
Western Thunderer
Aah - I wasn't the only one who had a chuckle at the smelling mistake in the last couple of postings... 
Steph
Steph
Heather Kay
Western Thunderer
Aah - I wasn't the only one who had a chuckle at the smelling mistake in the last couple of postings...
I wouldn't chuckle too much. Vise is now a chiefly US usage, where the rest of us have adopted vice as the correct form.
Nick Dunhill
Western Thunderer
Isn't licking a defined modelling technique?(Nearly didn't post this!)
Martin Field
Western Thunderer
Did anyone see the Britain Afloat thing last night, where an old barge skipper would say the third man (boy) "lick the bottom of the lead to see what the bottom of the river is made of" " Soft mud skipper!" would go the reply. "Oh that means we're by that sewage outfall, boy".
Don't you love Britain's maritime legacy?
Don't you love Britain's maritime legacy?
Steph Dale
Western Thunderer
Dammit, you mean we're letting the colonials have more fun with the language than we do? On reflection that's a very British thing to do...I wouldn't chuckle too much. Vise is now a chiefly US usage, where the rest of us have adopted vice as the correct form.
Steph
Nick Dunhill
Western Thunderer
Vice vice, you see it's a predictive text thing.
Steph Dale
Western Thunderer
Yore smell chequer sine working probably.
Strafe
Strafe
Nick Dunhill
Western Thunderer
...so the Ws now have water balance pipes connecting the front and rear tanks (made from annealed 2.5 mm square brass) and feedwater pipes from the rear tank to the injectors.
Axleboxes next.....
Axleboxes next.....
Rob Pulham
Western Thunderer
I am impressed by the neat bends on that square bar Nick 
Nick Dunhill
Western Thunderer
Made a bit of a boo boo. The outriggers are attached to the chassis and the balance pipe goes over them. Do I
1. Remove outriggers and attach to underside of footplate then add balance pipe
2. Attach balance pipe to outriggers
3. Don't do either and glue on balance pipe after final assembly?
3 is easiest......
1. Remove outriggers and attach to underside of footplate then add balance pipe
2. Attach balance pipe to outriggers
3. Don't do either and glue on balance pipe after final assembly?
3 is easiest......
Yorkshire Dave
Western Thunderer
As Richard says above.
Is anyone really going to peer under the valance to see if the balance pipes are attached to the footplate?
If you went for the easiest route Sod and his law will reveal themselves - someone will immediately want the separate the body from the chassis for reasons unbeknown.
Is anyone really going to peer under the valance to see if the balance pipes are attached to the footplate?
If you went for the easiest route Sod and his law will reveal themselves - someone will immediately want the separate the body from the chassis for reasons unbeknown.
mickoo
Western Thunderer
shouldn't laugh I've done worse 
.It's an interesting conundrum but I think the above solution is the only practical one. If the frames didn't have he recess for the footplate angles then you could of possibly got away with fixing them to the footplate and not the frames.
Incidentally, how did you fix the buffer beam gussets, are they attached to the buffer beam or the frames, clearly not both as then the foot plate won't come off.
MD
adrian
Flying Squad
I thought in earlier photos the buffer beams were soldered to the frames not the footplate - so unless I'm missing something the answer is both.