OzzyO
Western Thunderer
Hello all,
some of you will know what has been going on in my life, some of you will not, but I will say that it has not been fun for the last 18 months or so.
it's a long time posting anything about a build as you all will know. I don't feel that I can go back into a loco build at the moment as we are still sortieing out FiL house out, but I want to do some building work to get myself back up to speed. That I can just put down when I have to. So I thought how about a snow plough kit.
What do you get in the kit? Not a lot of parts! only about 12, but these parts are fantastic. All the detail is on them (about the only thing that is not on them is for the late ploughs that had the hand rails on the front of the ploughs).
The main parts.
I forgot this bit,
The casting and screws Etc.
I'm using wheels from Peartree Engineering, as these are all steel and don't appear to rust!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Like some do?
OzzyO.
PS. don't know when my next post will be, but I hope it will be soon.
Hello all,
Back onto the build, setting up the inner frames. I set the front and rear bearings in the frames and then glued them in place (isn't glue slow compared to solder) and ran through them with a 4.8mm reamer. That's when I found that the front wheels were binding! So I had two options reduce the front bearings or do some work on the wheels.
Both options would have worked, but in the end I decide to do some work on the wheels. The Pear-tree loco wheels have one wheel that screws on and the other one fixed in place with a plastic bush, so I decided to cut the plastic bush the sticks out off. Thinking about it Imay will have caused a route for a short, nothing that a thin plasicard washer won't sort out.
Before
After
The inner frames ready for spraying, You can just make out a small hole just in front of the rear bearing this is for springing the centre wheels.
The rear (only) buffer beam in place, looks like a small amount of filler is required.
The bearing for the centre axle, as you can see I've filed off part of the rim this is for the spring wire to sit on and with a bit of luck stop the bearings rotating.
The frames after painting and the masking removed (I use the self sticking dots that you get from stationery shops).
One wheeled up and the other one getting ready for them, you can see the wire for the centre axle spring. I was going to use phos. bronze but I couldn't find it so I used some 0.6mm N/S wire instead. The instructions say to use spoked wheels but for what you can see of the wheels? Apart from the cost, P/T disc wheels £10 for two axles, spoked wheels £15 for one axle. But you don't get the free rust.
When I came to fit the inner frames to the base of the body I found a small problem in that the inner frames rocked. In the last photo you can just make out a small light mark on the top of the apex on the front (Z) inner frame. As the inner frames had been painted I decided to remove the excess from the inside of the base of the body using a slitting disc, not much had to be removed. So now you all know to check these parts before painting.
Now to go shopping!
OzzyO.
some of you will know what has been going on in my life, some of you will not, but I will say that it has not been fun for the last 18 months or so.
it's a long time posting anything about a build as you all will know. I don't feel that I can go back into a loco build at the moment as we are still sortieing out FiL house out, but I want to do some building work to get myself back up to speed. That I can just put down when I have to. So I thought how about a snow plough kit.
What do you get in the kit? Not a lot of parts! only about 12, but these parts are fantastic. All the detail is on them (about the only thing that is not on them is for the late ploughs that had the hand rails on the front of the ploughs).
The main parts.
I forgot this bit,
The casting and screws Etc.
I'm using wheels from Peartree Engineering, as these are all steel and don't appear to rust!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Like some do?
OzzyO.
PS. don't know when my next post will be, but I hope it will be soon.
Hello all,
Back onto the build, setting up the inner frames. I set the front and rear bearings in the frames and then glued them in place (isn't glue slow compared to solder) and ran through them with a 4.8mm reamer. That's when I found that the front wheels were binding! So I had two options reduce the front bearings or do some work on the wheels.
Both options would have worked, but in the end I decide to do some work on the wheels. The Pear-tree loco wheels have one wheel that screws on and the other one fixed in place with a plastic bush, so I decided to cut the plastic bush the sticks out off. Thinking about it I
Before
After
The inner frames ready for spraying, You can just make out a small hole just in front of the rear bearing this is for springing the centre wheels.
The rear (only) buffer beam in place, looks like a small amount of filler is required.
The bearing for the centre axle, as you can see I've filed off part of the rim this is for the spring wire to sit on and with a bit of luck stop the bearings rotating.
The frames after painting and the masking removed (I use the self sticking dots that you get from stationery shops).
One wheeled up and the other one getting ready for them, you can see the wire for the centre axle spring. I was going to use phos. bronze but I couldn't find it so I used some 0.6mm N/S wire instead. The instructions say to use spoked wheels but for what you can see of the wheels? Apart from the cost, P/T disc wheels £10 for two axles, spoked wheels £15 for one axle. But you don't get the free rust.
When I came to fit the inner frames to the base of the body I found a small problem in that the inner frames rocked. In the last photo you can just make out a small light mark on the top of the apex on the front (Z) inner frame. As the inner frames had been painted I decided to remove the excess from the inside of the base of the body using a slitting disc, not much had to be removed. So now you all know to check these parts before painting.
Now to go shopping!
OzzyO.
