Rob Pulham
Western Thunderer
As I mentioned on one of the other threads I had a bit of a wagon bonanza at Christmas so it would have been rude not to start on one
So here is prgreess to date on the LNER 8 Ton refrigerator van
Starting with a couple of what's in the box - pack in this case
and a few more of the sides and ladders. Jim quite nicely gives some etched spacers to hold the ladder frames in position. You just fold them up, solder the rungs then cut out the spacers. i hasten to add that I haven't removed the spacers yet.
Jim also provides some etched door handles that you fold up into a square box and solder in place around the door locking rod. The idea is that once flooded with solder you then file them half round. I didn't fancy the work involved with this so I soldered a small piece of suitable sized tube to the handle instead, removing the rest of the etched fold up bit. As is custom on WT I have made the locking handles so that they move.
Some time ago I picked up a few sets of WEP compensation units so I plan to use one of them on this but I haven't quite worked out how I will achieve that yet.
So here is prgreess to date on the LNER 8 Ton refrigerator van
Starting with a couple of what's in the box - pack in this case
and a few more of the sides and ladders. Jim quite nicely gives some etched spacers to hold the ladder frames in position. You just fold them up, solder the rungs then cut out the spacers. i hasten to add that I haven't removed the spacers yet.
Jim also provides some etched door handles that you fold up into a square box and solder in place around the door locking rod. The idea is that once flooded with solder you then file them half round. I didn't fancy the work involved with this so I soldered a small piece of suitable sized tube to the handle instead, removing the rest of the etched fold up bit. As is custom on WT I have made the locking handles so that they move.
Some time ago I picked up a few sets of WEP compensation units so I plan to use one of them on this but I haven't quite worked out how I will achieve that yet.