Jon Nazareth
Western Thunderer
This is the rear plate for the tender with the top flare riveted in place (pictures uploaded in the wrong order). My intention is to.............well, not quite sure what my intention is other than attempt to fix the side flared section to the tender side. Because the two side flares will be riveted in place, I'm going to have to carefully file the mitre curve until it fits, all of the rivet holes line up, solder the mitre and then clean back the rear flare up to the side flare. I'm sure there are folks out there saying Oh, I would have done it this way or that way. This is the first time that I've done this and I couldn't think of another way. I'm using real rivets as I thought that the flares would distort attempting to press dummy rivets along their edges. Not only distort but I also thought that the impressed rivets would 'spread' giving a sort of scalloped edge to the flares.
Jon