Nick Dunhill's 7mm workbench.

[Pencarrow]

Nick - great to meet today, and a joy to see your models.

Ozzy, sorry not to have found you over the weekend. Sorry also that I missed your post 14/7 regarding the scale speed. Er, yes, I think I am saying 55 metres per minute - 3 feet per second or so, so a train of say 10 coaches would take something like 5 seconds to pass

Best
Simon

Sorry not to have bumped into you Simon. I had 'that' loco with me and you could have had a look see.

 

[Nick Dunhill]

time for a catch up.
I have made some frame spacers. This is the middle one that supports the brake cylinder and pivot plates.





The chassis plates were attached to the spacers using the rear jury axle as an alignment tool





These pictures show the turbine gearbox roughly in position





The chassis rear was assembled in a jig then attached to the main chassis.







more to come soon.....

 

[Scale7JB]

Had a good look at the turbine at Telford whilst you popped away from the stand for 5 minutes, a beautiful thing..!

JB.

 

[Nick Dunhill]

Cheers buddy!

 

[Pencarrow]

I'm halfway to producing beautiful soldered models like you.... I've got a similar style of workbench. Just got to sort the soldering now!

 

[Rob Pulham]

Another one of those moments when like doesn't start to cover it

 

[Nick Dunhill]

Here's some shots of the assembly of the hornguides and blocks. They were then aligned carefully in the chassis using jury axles and the coupling rod as a jig. Finally the wheels were fitted up.















a very smooth running chassis results!

 

[Locomodels]

Nick,

That looks like a set of Allan Harris wheels, you must have had them for quite a while !!

 

[Nick Dunhill]

They're from Richard Hersey, he's turned the blanks with thinner flanges. I bet there's loads of sets of them out there just waiting......

 

[Nick Dunhill]

.....so, pivot points and pins have been added for the front bogie and rear pony.





The footplate has been assembled and fitted up to the chassis. It can be seen how the frames have been extended to include the section above the footplate and the footplate extended inward to meet it. The chassis (outside) spacing was kicked out to 28.5mm which is about as much as finescale will allow.









More soon......

 

[Nick Dunhill]

...I have assembled the buffers so they are self contained and scratchbuilt the drag box behind the buffer beam.

 

[mickoo]

Packet arrived safely today .

MD

 

[Nick Dunhill]

Thank f for that. Just the return trip to sweat over then!

 

[mickoo]

I need to go to NRM at some point soon so could arrange a drop off somewhere, don't worry about the return

MD

 

[Nick Dunhill]

...and now I have fabricated a dragbox for the rear of the loco.

 

[Nick Dunhill]

.....so we now have the rear of the ashpan underneath and the splashers atop.

 

[mickoo]

All done and off to the etchers next week



MD

 

[Nick Dunhill]

Thanks for that matey. Remember the balance weights need to be in pairs, front and back.

I'm struggling a bit at the moment. I have lots of books and pictures and the LMS Journal David Hunt article on Turbo has a simplified drawing of the frames. But what I really need at the moment is a pipe and rod GA. Anyone know where I might get sight of one?

 

[Nick Dunhill]

In the meantime here's some shots of the recent progress. I added a lot of strapping and brackets to the underside of the footplate and the rest of the ashpan.

 

[mickoo]

Don't worry, you get backs as well

Fraid I can't help you on a GA or pipe and rod, reckon they'll be pretty scarce if not none existent.

MD