Michael Osborne
Western Thunderer
John, I am very sorry to read your news. Words are not really adequate at times.
Mike
Mike
LNWR A class in S7
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Crimson Rambler
Western Thunderer
John - I too am sorry to learn of your new - as Mike Osborne has observed, in a situation such as your's words are so inadequate.
Crimson Rambler
Crimson Rambler
john lewsey
Western Thunderer
Hi everyone, I have been absent for a while not a great year really. I have recently taken the A class out of its box and decided to get on with the slidebars etc. I also need to order a Poppy's chassis jig,a surprisingly simple device which works very well in helping put the chassis together. The wheels are 3D printed by Alan Black . He will do them in S7 or finescale , I think that they look superb.
Here are a few photos.
Here are a few photos.
john lewsey
Western Thunderer
Hi Graham , here is a photo of one of the wheels. I don't know whether the tyre is a press fit or otherwise. I hope the photo helps.
John.
John.
john lewsey
Western Thunderer
john lewsey
Western Thunderer
A little update on the A. The slide bars and crossheads are now out together and move freely. I'm no engine builder compared to some on here but I do quite enjoy the process of putting it all together and getting it to work nicely.
john lewsey
Western Thunderer
Two of the axle boxes fitted, so far so good. (Hopefully) 
john lewsey
Western Thunderer
Hi, all of the driving wheels are on and ,,,,,,,,,,,it runs freely (phew). I'm quite pleased with this so far. Next step is pick ups and wire it up and see if it runs.
Comments welcome
John
Comments welcome
John
john lewsey
Western Thunderer
Hi, I am currently trying to get some clearance between the cross head and the leading coupling rod. There really isn't a lot of space,,,,but I managed to get the P4 model to work so this one will as well.
Dog Star
Western Thunderer
"Will"? Surely you mean "shall"? given that you have the experience from 4mm scale modelling.
john lewsey
Western Thunderer
Absolutely.
Eastsidepilot
Western Thunderer
John, I got over the clearance problems by fitting a flush crank pin retainer. Admittedly a bit difficult if you have not got machinery. I used a brass top hat bush tapped 10 B.A. for the crank pin and milled out the rods to suit.
Another way is to build the rods by laminating the thickness of the rod and boring the outside laminate to suit the top hat and the inner laminate to the bush dia. before soldering the rod laminates together
Below is a S7 loco I built a few moons ago on which I milled solid rods from nickel.
Photo by Heather Kavanaugh.
Col.
simond
Western Thunderer
Milling rods…
SimonD’s workbench
Enough muppetry! time for a win :). the slide bars were finished on the miller last night before going to see Soft Machine in Canterbury. Fabulous musicianship, though I found a couple of the tracks a bit impenetrable, a bit too jazz for my taste. Anyway, they need cleaning up, and a little...
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simond
Western Thunderer
That photo is fab.
john lewsey
Western Thunderer
Your engine looks brilliant Colin
Eastsidepilot
Western Thunderer
It was built to S7 for Tony Watts of the South East Area Group along with two others in F/S for other clients as a batch build.
Eastsidepilot
Western Thunderer
john lewsey
Western Thunderer
Hi Colin, I did see one of them at a scale 7 meeting,it looked superb I just hope that mine will get near that finish.