Eeens..

Parts 67..90, originally uploaded by Eeen.

Just finished bolting all the bits together for the chassis. Actually I’m not too sure if locomotives have a chassis, I think it might be a frame, but whatever it is, it’s now bolted together. Discovered a bit of a cock up in that when i’d quartered the cranks I’d but a drive and coupling crank on each axle, rather than drives on one and coupling ones on the other. I’ve swapped over the cranks now, but it means the cross-drilled holes on the axle are now in the wrong place, so I probably need to make new axles, though I might be able to bodge it and just requarter by loclite and forget the cross drilling.

Eirc Parts 36-41, originally uploaded by Eeen.

Drive crank pins temporarily glued in cranks. Coupling crank pins. Coupling rods with bushes pressed in.

Eric parts 25..30, originally uploaded by Eeen.

Quite a bit more faff to make than I expected. Tapping little 8BA threads is trickier than I thought and the taper tap had a tendency to strip out some of the existing thread. Starting with a plug tap helped things a bit, but some of the end holes haven’t got as much thread as I wanted, so I may have to try and drill the holes deeper and add a bit more thread. My only concern is that in re drilling I might remove the existing thread.
On top of that when I looked main frames after making the spacers, I realised that I needed 7 spacers rather than 6. I’ll have to make the 7th one later.

Parts 11..22, originally uploaded by Eeen.

Axle bushes, and various connecting rod bushes turned from Phosphor Bronze. I stuck a penny in the photo to give scale.