OzzyO
Western Thunderer
Is this for a castle tender or a grange ?
Glad you reminded me Steve I was thinking that the Castle had a Hawksworth tender not a Collett one. So it's now two Collett 4000 gallon tenders. So the first job was to make another set of compensation beams, the second set have 1/4" holes for the bearings as this one will use 3/16" axles, looking at this photo it looks like I'm going to have to re-drill a pair of holes on the left hand set,
The bits with blue marks on them will be cut off after the two frames are soldered together and the holes will also be drilled,
Getting ready to solder the frames together, if both frames had the same size bearing I'd have done all four together,
You can sometimes get this with the inner frames, if I'd remember this I'd have swapped the frames about,
After chopping off the bits that I didn't want and drilling most of the holes. The only ones left to do are the six 0.5mm ones for the fixings for the safety chains. After the frames have been split one of the front brackets has to be cut off and one modified to a better shape,
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