Jon Nazareth
Western Thunderer
Before making the new chimney, I thought that I'd have a go at correcting the lean in the existing one. I tapped the skirt a little on the side of the lean thinking that this would 'push' it up straight. That didn't work and so, I tapped the skirt back again level. This simply spoiled the way that the skirt sat on the smoke box. I tapped it this way and that until it sat down as it should (I'm not sure why I was wasting my time doing this seeing as the chimney wasn't vertical). Well, the long and the short is that after all of this tapping, the chimney now seems to be at right angles to the smoke box, curiouser and curiouser.
I noticed that I'd forgotten to put in the ring of rivets where the chimney meets the base. I'd somehow misread the drawing and I thought that these were flush on the outside, apparently not. The first picture shows the whole held in the lathe prior to marking out for the rivets. The next two photos show the rivets in place and the front and rear views of the smoke box with the door and the dummy front and rear cylinder covers. The front covers will have a drain cocks fitted one into each of those spare holes that can be seen.
That's about it for the smoke box and the next task will be to make up the six brackets that hold the boiler to the frames.
Jon
I noticed that I'd forgotten to put in the ring of rivets where the chimney meets the base. I'd somehow misread the drawing and I thought that these were flush on the outside, apparently not. The first picture shows the whole held in the lathe prior to marking out for the rivets. The next two photos show the rivets in place and the front and rear views of the smoke box with the door and the dummy front and rear cylinder covers. The front covers will have a drain cocks fitted one into each of those spare holes that can be seen.
That's about it for the smoke box and the next task will be to make up the six brackets that hold the boiler to the frames.
Jon