Another very busy week at work so not a lot of progress on the tenders.
I have though now finished the springs for all four tenders
and I have made up all the drag beams and buffer beams and added those. I concluded that these are much easier to laminate before you add them tothe frames so you need to shorten the tabs to be no more than 0.4mm thick, the short tabs do still help in fitting the beams
It is much easier to do this and clean them up before soldering to the frames.
Having completed the frames for all 4 tenders I decided that finishing the F tender was the next thing to do as this is the odd one out.
The detail at the rear on the buffer beam and the tank bulkhead is different to the rest.
These are the bits for the tank bulkhead supports
You can safely solder these together held in your fingers with burning yourself
A tiny dab of solder on the back is all you need
Here they are in place with the tanker breather castings next to them.
Next it is the tank detail above the buffer beam, there are 6 strengthening plates to add in 4 groups.
Here are all the pieces you need, again you can just about solder these together without burning your fingers as they are nickel silver.
Here's the larger of the 2 styles, the rivet detail overlay is noticeably larger than the base and needs filing back to size. The other thing is that these fit against the tank side but the bottom rivet is in the way and needs to be filed off before you solder them in place.
You can see where I have removed the 2 offending rivets in the above photo.
Here's the single plate type all nicely made up but as I was filing it to size I dropped it on the floor and now I can't find it !
Things like this normally turn up in a day or 2 so I'm hoping it does before I have to scratch up a replacement.