davey4270
Western Thunderer
123f. . The Tank 6.
The picture shows the tank support brackets soldered to the boiler. I didn’t need to unsolder the 2 tacks holding the tank in its correct position as they had worked loose at some point when I was soldering the tank supports. Fortunately, for once, the tank had not moved out of alignment meaning the brackets didn’t need correcting. Looking at the brackets on the boiler, they don’t appear to be level with each other but are evenly spaced. The unevenness is correct due to parts of the tank bottom having the extra thickness of an overlay.
I marked out the position of the balance pipe and the water outlets at the rear of the tank to the R/H side injector and a smaller pipe which enters the L/H cab front. The purpose of this pipe is unclear, my best guess is that it leads to some kind of tank level gauge? The class of locomotives in GWR days appear to only have one GWR style injector on the R/H side so perhaps there was another different type hidden in the cab? Anyway, I drilled pilot holes in the required positions and soldered 10BA washers over the holes to represent the flanges where these components would be attached.
The tank has had another clean up and most of the solder “stain” has gone but for some reason the overlays look dull compared to the shiny tank surface in the picture. Looking at the tank in my hand the parts are exactly the same. How strange.
The picture shows the tank support brackets soldered to the boiler. I didn’t need to unsolder the 2 tacks holding the tank in its correct position as they had worked loose at some point when I was soldering the tank supports. Fortunately, for once, the tank had not moved out of alignment meaning the brackets didn’t need correcting. Looking at the brackets on the boiler, they don’t appear to be level with each other but are evenly spaced. The unevenness is correct due to parts of the tank bottom having the extra thickness of an overlay.
I marked out the position of the balance pipe and the water outlets at the rear of the tank to the R/H side injector and a smaller pipe which enters the L/H cab front. The purpose of this pipe is unclear, my best guess is that it leads to some kind of tank level gauge? The class of locomotives in GWR days appear to only have one GWR style injector on the R/H side so perhaps there was another different type hidden in the cab? Anyway, I drilled pilot holes in the required positions and soldered 10BA washers over the holes to represent the flanges where these components would be attached.
The tank has had another clean up and most of the solder “stain” has gone but for some reason the overlays look dull compared to the shiny tank surface in the picture. Looking at the tank in my hand the parts are exactly the same. How strange.