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Joe d:

--- Quote from: RobWilson on February 17, 2015, 02:52:15 PM --- :lol: :lol: :lol: I cant see 16BA Joe :Doh:Rob
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Don't think I can either :clap:

got the fire door done;
started by silver soldering a bit of round stock to some left over hornplate, some filing, and there it is, a hinge part

the catch for the latch is just a little piece of flatbar drilled and threaded on the back for an off-cut of a 7BA screw that then screws into the
bushing on the boiler. In the it's better to be lucky than good mode, the thing ended up vertical with no fussing about needed with
the point of thread engagement...

The actual door is also a bit of round soldered onto a piece of leftover hornplate, some filing here and there, rivet on the latch bar,
file up the keeper/guide and rivet it on and here it is

and here it is where it lives:

Still have to make the "real" hinge pin to replace the temporary one, and add the chain to the latch handle. Two more things on the
"little details" list....

So, onwards and upwards with a lot of repetitive stuff now, making 70+ strakes and a bunch of spokes to start assembling the rear
wheels.

Joe

Joe d:
Sneaked out of town for a week on the beach in Curacao, damned good thing to do after the winter we've been "enjoying" here in Montreal. :clap:

Now that I'm back, been slogging along with what is probably the most repetitious machining in this whole project

cut a bunch of steel strips into smaller bits, then stacked them in the mill to bring them down to size
(the strips were sheared, so they all had less than square edges)

Here's the last Stack-O-Strakes getting taken down to size

and here's the blanks for front spokes, rear spokes, and strakes:

and here's the set-up on the rotary table for the 1st op on the spokes, curving the end that lies next to the rim of the wheel

lots to do still, but it's coming along.

Cheers, Joe

vtsteam:
This is definitely a Curacao winter......one way or another! :lol:

Good for you. :thumbup: And the traction engne is looking great! :clap: :clap: :clap:

RobWilson:
Just think of ALL the holes that will need to be drilled into them Joe :)

That will help bring you back to reality :lol: :lol:

Rob

Joe d:
Thanks, Steve.

And thanks (I think?) to you too Rob. Go ahead, cheer me up some more .... :)

Joe

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