oldravendale
Western Thunderer
'ere we go again.....
As threatened here is the start of my thread about the building of the MF A3.
This is a kit I bought together with the coal rail tender (built by Mickoo and now to be seen in primer on the Finney7 stand) several years ago from Martin before the concept of Finney7 was a twinkle in anyone's eye. I started it by building firebox, coned boiler part and boiler several years ago. The firebox and boiler were both unsatisfactory for reasons which will now become clear.
Firebox. This went together rather well, I thought. Except that I filed away the cusps on the armature, strictly not in accordance with the instructions. The result of that is that the coned part of the boiler doesn't fit properly. After discussions with Dikitriki it was clear that, rather than compromise the structure by marginally reducing the length of the firebox it was far better to build up the internal structure, which I've duly done.
As far as the parallel part of the boiler is concerned, I failed to join that properly with the result that it sagged underneath in the middle. As a result I applied the magic fire stick and separated it all in to component parts and have only now cleaned it all up and reassembled as it should have been done in the first place.
All this, of course, before I'd attempted the "K", from which I've learned much. I'd also previously built the Martin Finney Radial Tank without any boiler problems so any error was due to my poor technique.
So..... having made appropriate adjustments this is where I am now.
I'm now satisfied with my starting point. Next I'm about to start the chassis, my normal starting point with any loco kit. It'll be built with full compensation.
Let's see, eh?
Brian
As threatened here is the start of my thread about the building of the MF A3.
This is a kit I bought together with the coal rail tender (built by Mickoo and now to be seen in primer on the Finney7 stand) several years ago from Martin before the concept of Finney7 was a twinkle in anyone's eye. I started it by building firebox, coned boiler part and boiler several years ago. The firebox and boiler were both unsatisfactory for reasons which will now become clear.
Firebox. This went together rather well, I thought. Except that I filed away the cusps on the armature, strictly not in accordance with the instructions. The result of that is that the coned part of the boiler doesn't fit properly. After discussions with Dikitriki it was clear that, rather than compromise the structure by marginally reducing the length of the firebox it was far better to build up the internal structure, which I've duly done.
As far as the parallel part of the boiler is concerned, I failed to join that properly with the result that it sagged underneath in the middle. As a result I applied the magic fire stick and separated it all in to component parts and have only now cleaned it all up and reassembled as it should have been done in the first place.
All this, of course, before I'd attempted the "K", from which I've learned much. I'd also previously built the Martin Finney Radial Tank without any boiler problems so any error was due to my poor technique.
So..... having made appropriate adjustments this is where I am now.
I'm now satisfied with my starting point. Next I'm about to start the chassis, my normal starting point with any loco kit. It'll be built with full compensation.
Let's see, eh?
Brian