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Joe d:
Hi Zadig

It's from George Thomas' plans, got some really nice castings from Gary Martin in the US a little more
affordable here than shipping them in from the UK. Like your gear cutting, still finding the occasional
bit of cast-iron dust here and there...

Joe

Joe d:
Some more progress:

but first, here's the obligatory beauty shot.... a coat of primer to stop any rust while they sit around waiting for me to finish everything else

Wheels done, decided to carry on with some front-end stuff (was still waiting for stock to arrive)
so cleaned up an off-cut of the boiler barrel, and slit it lengthwise on the mill

once cut, opened it up a bit by pushing it over a piece of stock the same diameter as the boiler shell, then soldered in a little piece of copper
to fill the gap. This then becomes the smokebox, so set-up the handy-dandy indexer again to lay out some rivet holes

That done, started on the perch bracket by rolling a piece of steel for the baseplate

and bent up another piece of steel and silver soldered them together

Then made a hole in the bottom of the bracket, turned up a bronze bushing, and milled a steel fitting for the push pole, and soldered them
in place

two pieces of flat bar get a turned spigot on each end which is then threaded, these are riveted in place to provide studs for securing cover plates fore and aft (which were straightforward hacksaw and file work)

more to come...

Joe d:
the story continues...

milled the fork which will hold the front axle:

turned a retainer for the inner end of the fork, tapped for a setscrew

turned the pin that will hold the axle, and here's what it looks like behind the cover plate

So only have the axle, a couple of washers, and the hub covers to do and the front wheel assembly is done.....
and a very good thing too, as my pal the mailman brought me this:

so I can get back to the rear wheels!

Cheers, Joe

vtsteam:
Still watching and and quietly applauding every step Joe! :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :coffee:

RobWilson:
:clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: Front wheels look cracking Joe :thumbup:

You seam to be flying along with this build :dremel:

:offtopic: but must ask , how did you musket shoot ? did you hit anything ? :poke:

Rob

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