Dave's 4mm scale Industrial Loco Workshop.

[David Waite]

Absolutely wonderful.
David.

 

[spikey faz]

Very nice!

Mike

 

[Dave]

To paraphrase custom car builder Dave Kindig; Scratchbuilding isn't easy, but if it was easy everyone would be doing it and then it wouldn't be cool.

I'd say this one is finished.





It's surprisingly quiet in operation. I have had N20s that have been very noisy, but this one is very quiet. It pulls well, too. I coupled it to 10x21t minerals, plus the 240g dead weight of a Planet Industrials Victory 0-6-0T and it pulled the lot.

I will take a break from building locomotives for a while. I want to finish Blacker Lane and to get Harboro Stone up and running again. There's also the small matter of building the layout for this thing to run on, which is a nothing but a bare baseboard at the moment.

 

[paulc]

I tried that but with Loctite instead of Araldite. It actually worked and I managed to hand file the flare.
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It's a chimney, but not the right chimney. A forum member has very kindly offered to make me a proper one.
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1814 had at least 3 chimneys in its life. Firstly the short one, then what appears to be a taller Manning Wardle chimney and finally a tall replacement that was its last and appears to have been fitted to either a new boiler or at least a new, welded, smokebox.
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The last but one photo, with the cylinders and slide bars on, ought to have come after this one.
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The cylinder ends and motion brackets are made from 18 thou. hard brass, the slide bars from 30 thou. nickel silver and the strange bits are the piston glands or whatever. The extra bit is there to give something to hold in pliers whilst filing them to be a good fit in the slide bars. It was sawn off after the part was soldered into the slide bars.

The slide bars are made overly long so that the part on the left sticks out beyond the motion bracket and keeps the bars to gauge until they are soldered into the motion bracket. The excess is then sawn off, leaving two bars soldered in and lined up.

Loctite is just a brand name like Hoover . What type of Loctite did you use ?

 

[Dave]

Loctite is just a brand name like Hoover . What type of Loctite did you use ?

I just checked. It isn't Loctite at all. It's V-tech threadlocker.

 

[Dave]

I said that I'd take a break from building engines, but I've now got these to make chimneys and domes, so it would be rude not to use them, wouldn't it?

 

[WM183]

I said that I'd take a break from building engines, but I've now got these to make chimneys and domes, so it would be rude not to use them, wouldn't it?
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What is this? What does it do, please?

 

[PhilMortimer]

I said that I'd take a break from building engines, but I've now got these to make chimneys and domes, so it would be rude not to use them, wouldn't it?
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I really need to make one of these. Is this one you made? Or purchased?

 

[PhilMortimer]

What is this? What does it do, please?

Used for turning grinding flares on the bottom of chimneys and domes, to blend upright chimney / dome to boiler barrel diameter.

 

[Dave]

I really need to make one of these. Is this one you made? Or purchased?

I had an engineer friend make it for me. I can ask him how much to make another, if you would like me to.

 

[PhilMortimer]

I had an engineer friend make it for me. I can ask him how much to make another, if you would like me to.

Dave,

That would be very kind.

i’ll DM you later- currently bed ridden with Covid…….

Many Thanks,

PM

 

[Dave]

I have changed the title again. This time to reflect that it's not all scratchbuilding.

The current project was started before the Manning Wardle on page one and is a 325HP Hunslet diesel-hydraulic. The model is intended to run on my Blacker Lane layout and represents w/n 7410 of 1976. It is a Judith Edge kit that requires modification to represent this particular prototype.

7410 was the last true industrial locomotive to work at British Oak Disposal Point but I think the very last trains there were worked by 08870 that was hired in from BR. I saw 7410 work trains in and out of the site just a few months before it closed in 1993.

Crossing Blacker Lane on the way to collect empties at the exchange sidings.





All pretty straightforward up to this point.

 

[Herb Garden]

I have changed the title again. This time to reflect that it's not all scratchbuilding.

The current project was started before the Manning Wardle on page one and is a 325HP Hunslet diesel-hydraulic. The model is intended to run on my Blacker Lane layout and represents w/n 7410 of 1976. It is a Judith Edge kit that requires modification to represent this particular prototype.

7410 was the last true industrial locomotive to work at British Oak Disposal Point but I think the very last trains there were worked by 08870 that was hired in from BR. I saw 7410 work trains in and out of the site just a few months before it closed in 1993.
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Crossing Blacker Lane on the way to collect empties at the exchange sidings.
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All pretty straightforward up to this point.

Lovely locos and lovely kits. I've built the 0-4-0 version and I do like how well they drop together