Its time I updated things on my Simplex Project.
Its not as easy doing a log fpr a rebuild as it is for a engine build as things are far more fragmented any way here we go
Borrowed a quartering jig from the club and checked the cranks had been set correctly at 90 deg, whats important is that all the axles are the same it will stand a deg or tow out, as long as all axles are out the same.
This is the jig

And this is how you use it, you assemble the axles in the same orientation as they will go into the loco frame

You check the crank pin with fealer gauges what you want is for the same measurement under the same left or right hand crank pin.
Mine came out withing 0.005" to each other I think that will be OK when you take into account the play in the system.
Also checked the wheel centres using slip gauges the best I could determine is that the centres between the driving and leading axle is 7 3/16" it should be 7 1/8" and between the trailing and driving axle 7 1/6" again it should be 7 1/8", I've ordered a 12" vernier so will check them again when it arrives, if this is correct I'll have to adjust the coupling rods accordingly.
Taliking about coupling rods I've ordered a complete set of laser cut coupling rods and valve linkages they won't cost much more than buying the material and cutting them out myself.
Whilst waiting for the laser stuff to arive I've also built the oiler. The tank was fabricated from a thick brass plate box that Dek gave me (cheers Dek)

I was trying to follow a drawing for a lubricator that resently apeared in Model Engineer, but the drawings were all over the place so I just did my own thing its off the plunger type.
I could have used a friction clutch but I kind of like to watch the old ratchet type lubricators work so thats what I did, John kindly overed to cut the ratchet on his digital deviding head but I was kicking my heals any way so decided to cut it myself on me manual devider.
I used a little dove tail cutter got from RDG her it is with a couple of blanks i turned up to make the ratchets.

This is the set up for cutting it.

I cut 45 teath which is easy for a 90:1 wheel its just two turns of the handle for each tooth.


And the completed lubricator


Still needs those springs tidying up and some gaskets fitting but its more or less done and the ratchet does its job.
Stew