michael080
Western Thunderer
A little progress...
I had to remake the slidebars 4mm longer. They are made of two silver soldered I-profiles and a little fettling. Then I noticed that the piston rods were too short, they had to be extended by 4mm too.
Originally, the whole valve gear wasn't removable. I think this is a no go given the paint scheme of German steam loco. So I organized a couple of M1 screws and made everything removeable. The union link can be removed from the crosshead, the combination lever can be removed from the valve and from the radius bar, the expansion link can be removed from the carrier bracket. Now I noticed that the whole carrier needs to be removeable from the body to allow the crosshead to be removed from the slidebar.
And I noticed that the whole thing wouldn't move because the valve rod isn't moving correctly.
I have to admit that I was close to dump the whole thing.
Let's hope that only the body is such a mess. The cast brass looks so nice that fitting them on the boiler might be fun.
Michael
I had to remake the slidebars 4mm longer. They are made of two silver soldered I-profiles and a little fettling. Then I noticed that the piston rods were too short, they had to be extended by 4mm too.
Originally, the whole valve gear wasn't removable. I think this is a no go given the paint scheme of German steam loco. So I organized a couple of M1 screws and made everything removeable. The union link can be removed from the crosshead, the combination lever can be removed from the valve and from the radius bar, the expansion link can be removed from the carrier bracket. Now I noticed that the whole carrier needs to be removeable from the body to allow the crosshead to be removed from the slidebar.
And I noticed that the whole thing wouldn't move because the valve rod isn't moving correctly.
I have to admit that I was close to dump the whole thing.
Let's hope that only the body is such a mess. The cast brass looks so nice that fitting them on the boiler might be fun.
Michael