7mm MOK 8F - 8425

[Rob Pulham]

The last couple of days has seen a bit of progress with the JLRT Stanier tender.

On a whim I decided to get most of the upper works done before detailing the inner chassis.

Starting with the outerframes and steps. These required much riveting.









There are lots of small etched parts that have a couple of rivets each which are very close together. Aside from those already pressed out, all the parts marked '55' also need two rivets each.



To make a better job of these, I took fifteen minutes out and made another rivet setting tool with a finer end to get in between these rivets.



Like the ones that I made previously, it's made from 6mm steel rod recovered from empty toner cartridges with the turned ends heat blued to help prevent them rusting.

 

[Rob Pulham]

Despite having a busy week with real life happenings I have made progress on the JLRT Stanier tender. I have been doing some more to the body of the tender.

I had a choice of two whitemetal water scoop domes or I could turn up a new one from brass or nickel as I had with the Princess tender. In fairness one of the domes was better than the other and was nice, apart from a pit of pitting on the top. The second wasn't quite as good but looking at the thickness of the casting I decided to have a go at cleaning it up in the lathe. I gripped the mounting spigot in a collet and very carefully skimmed both the top and the outer edge removing about 0.3mm from the diameter but making an average casting into something much better.





Bolstered by my success I took the second casting and took a skim off the top of that and then blended the curved edge back in with a homemade wet and dry sanding stick used wet with WD40 as the lubricant.





One of the things that I have noted while looking at photos of the rear of Stanier tenders is just how many of them had the lid up while in service. This is something that I fancied replicating if I could so made a basic drawing from the GA and I started with a couple of different thicknesses of nickel bar to make the filler and it's cap.

 

[Christian]

Very nice indeed, I may well have to invest in a lathe again as you keep demonstrating such great uses for one.

 

[Rob Pulham]

The body of the JLRT tender is built around a fold up cage, I confess that I wasn't too keen on it initially but it's growing on me.

All the parts are just rested in place at the moment - The front and rear panels are made up of two half etched faces with a capping strip added after soldering them together. So far I have only fitted the front one together because the front of the rear panel is folded to create the coal space and I haven't got that far yet.



It was a bit fiddly but I did manage to get the filler cap to open and close.

 

[Christian]

That looks amazing, great work on the hinge!

 

[Rob Pulham]

Thanks Christian,

It was one of those itches that I have wanted to scratch for a while.

 

[Christian]

Thanks Christian,

It was one of those itches that I have wanted to scratch for a while.

Definately worth scratching!