Mike Trice
Western Thunderer
I spent the last couple of days repairing 2 Pokemon balls (don't ask) for my Grandsons who think I am Mr Fixit.
Today I was able to start thinking about the hardware needed for the very visible streamlined end.
For want of any better method I folded up some 1mm N/S strip to form two lamp irons and soldered them. The double fold is used to fit them into pre-drilled holes then a cosmetic lower bar addd. Will show what I mean when they have been fitted.
I am not aware of any make of vacuum and steam heat pipes that look anything like the ones used by the LNER so I have had to improvise.
A basic shape was bent up from 0.7mm copper wire:
5amp fuse wire was wrapped around the core:
A loop was made from 15amp fuse wire and the whole thing soldered and trimmed:
A strip of thin brass cut off from a sheet was folded and twisted to form the blanking plate bracket:
The vacumm pipe was then pushed into a 0.7mm hole in a spare piece of wood and the bracket trimmed and held in place with blutack for soldering:
Crude but I think I will get away with it:
Using similar techniques I put together a steam heat pipe complete with restraining link:
Still need to tidy it up a bit.
Today I was able to start thinking about the hardware needed for the very visible streamlined end.
For want of any better method I folded up some 1mm N/S strip to form two lamp irons and soldered them. The double fold is used to fit them into pre-drilled holes then a cosmetic lower bar addd. Will show what I mean when they have been fitted.
I am not aware of any make of vacuum and steam heat pipes that look anything like the ones used by the LNER so I have had to improvise.
A basic shape was bent up from 0.7mm copper wire:
5amp fuse wire was wrapped around the core:
A loop was made from 15amp fuse wire and the whole thing soldered and trimmed:
A strip of thin brass cut off from a sheet was folded and twisted to form the blanking plate bracket:
The vacumm pipe was then pushed into a 0.7mm hole in a spare piece of wood and the bracket trimmed and held in place with blutack for soldering:
Crude but I think I will get away with it:
Using similar techniques I put together a steam heat pipe complete with restraining link:
Still need to tidy it up a bit.
