Upgrading the Accucraft Adams Radial Tank

Thirtysecond

Western Thunderer
Well, to Chris Tolhurst and I the Adams Radial tank is second in Victorian elegance only to the Adams T3. Accucraft bought this model out in a variety of liveries and with the two boiler variants earlier this year. The model being gas poker fired limits what could be done in terms of improvements to our two models but even with that restriction there are many areas, cosmetic and working, where there's room for "polishing". Here is one of the two models when finished.
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If anybody's interested I can go through some of the things we did which included:

Add cylinder drains and dummy drain cocks

Improve the chimney

Add an Enots valve

Draw file the coupling and connecting rods

Improve the look and fit of the coal load

Increase gas capacity

Move gauge glass and its drain valve

Move lubricator tank

Add a detailed, glazed cab with a scale reverser
 
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Thirtysecond

Western Thunderer
Installing Cylinder Drains

There is a convenient groove in the cylinder blocks which, with a sliding rod added, and ports drilled through to the cylinder ends, formed the basis of cylinder drain valves. On the real thing there is an external rod which operates the drain valves. This is not on the model and had to be added. A linkage was taken through to the cab via a pivot crank on the weigh shaft. The linkage operates both the working valves and dummy drain valves. In the cab the drain operating lever was replicated exactly.

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