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Joe d:
Steve

If you clap really loud, and the wind is from the sou-east, I could hear you! :clap:

Rob:

Thanks, Mate. The flintlock came out nicely if I must say so myself, get it on the range a couple of times per year,
grouping is good, playing with sight adjustment still (fixed blade and v-notch) got the fall of shot on the centre of
the target horizontally, still got to bring it up a bunch. This is pretty easy, file a little off the front blade, fire a string of shots,
measure how far up it moved, repeat.

Have to ensure that I don't do this right before going through airport security, black powder sets off their little
sniffer machines :)

Joe

RobWilson:
Good to here your getting some range time :thumbup: aye I bet the GSR is a total body thing after a few rounds :lol: :lol:

Rob

Meldonmech:
Hi Joe,

The Engine is coming on really well, and looking great.

Cheers David

Joe d:
Thanks, David.

chucked a piece of flat bar in the 4-jaw and turned a spigot on each end, this was then drilled and tapped for
a retaining screw. Moved over to the mill and made some angled cuts

hand filed some decorative chamfers on the edges, some straightforward turning to make the brass hub covers

and here it is all together.

still have some cleanup to do on the axle, but pretty much done!

Cheers, Joe

Pete W.:
Hi there, Joe,

That's looking very good. :bow: :bow: :bow:

Please could you explain how the front wheels are retained on the axle?

A second question, please forgive me for being thick: you've marked-out fixing holes on the smoke box - does the boiler shell protrude forward of the smoke box tube-plate? Surely the smoke box fixings don't penetrate the pressurised part of the boiler? :scratch: :scratch: :scratch:

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