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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2015 20:26:28 GMT
Sorry Waggy, I hadn't noticed that Stockport weren't on the list I'll amend my master copy. Look forward to coming for a run in September if not before . John
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Post by ejparrott on Jan 20, 2015 9:55:00 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2015 10:45:49 GMT
Hi ED,
I'll send that last photo to Gerald Chandler - he should recognise where it is and possibly some of the people on it. It's not a track that I recognise but I've only been involved for a few years. Gerald has been in the N25GA since it started 40 years ago.
John
PS the number looks like 1200?
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Post by ejparrott on Jan 20, 2015 11:28:37 GMT
I *think* it's 1209... I've a vague recollection is was G.Grandfathers wedding anniversary, but I don't know that date!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2015 13:02:07 GMT
Could be 1209. People do tend to number locos after significant dates.
Gerald doesn't recognise the track in the photo but we think the loco at the back is John Cook's Uranus. John's probably the chap in the hat but without the tie. One of the other chaps is John's friend Maurice Downs but unfortunately they are both dead now so can't ask them.
I think that's a Bond's Duchess? in the front (City of Stoke on Trent) but without the smoke deflectors. I wonder where that is now.
John
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2015 14:06:17 GMT
Des Adeley has suggested it could be the old Yeovil track. Apparently one of the members there did have a Duchess which he ran at one of the rallies that Gerald attended. The old track is a housing estate now.
John
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Post by ejparrott on Jan 27, 2015 10:01:07 GMT
Yeovil Somerset? I don't remember going down that way but that doesn't mean anything!
Third coat of Lake went on the one side of the tender frames yesterday and I reasonably happy with it...considering it'll be half covered with the springs and in the shadow of the body I'll accept it. Will start on the other side shortly, then I'll need to think about getting something for lining it....Bob Moore lining pen looking favourite at the moment.
Have also put a request round RMES for anyone who might just have a photo of her around '95. One chap is a photographer and he's had a look at the one photo of her and he thinks it's 1209 on the cabside. I've asked Peter's Plates about a smokebox numberplate for her...and a 2A shedplate as she's now shedded in Rugby!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2015 20:27:15 GMT
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Post by ejparrott on Jan 28, 2015 9:44:27 GMT
This one... Itc ould do with a bit of TLC now..the dummy vac cylinder's fallen off and the D&C brake levers are a bit fragile. Apparently there's some more of our families small gauge stuff in Derby museum...#~I must follow it up...
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Post by ejparrott on Feb 6, 2015 18:20:55 GMT
Mother's fixed her computer now so I have some more history of our Annie.
Her number is 1209, so if I can get Peter of Peter's Plates to answer his email I'll have some smokebox plates made for her now. The number is the date when my Great Grandparents were introduced to each other - I knew it was an anniversary! Annie was run in Bradwell (Hope Valley) and locally for Church events and the like, after G.Grandfather had a falling out with a club in Sheffield. He'd taken mother with him, and the other members were very obnoxious about having a woman on site, so he left and never went again. He built a portable track supported on Dexion stands and ran her wherever there was a space flat enough, including a yard at home.
Her boiler is a genuine LMS Derby build. Grandfather had to visit Derby works as part of his ordinary work. Like the rest of our family, he thought ahead and being ready to make the boiler for Annie, knowing it was a critical component and had to be well made, he arranged that he could spend time in the boiler shop to get some guidance. Grandfather was not a man to ask someone to do something he could not so his intention was to solder some bits under supervision, after all, he knew mother would play with the engine and he wanted it safe. When he got there he found that the foreman of the shop had assembled his apprentices for a lesson using Annie as the example. His best worker was there to demonstrate and explain and short version, Grandfather came home with a finished boiler, a good understanding of how and why and an invitation to visit anytime and bring Annie. I believe the apprentices were also very happy with their afternoon--at least so they remembered when some of them came to his funeral nearly fifteen years later --which is when mother heard the full story.
I had hoped to have the third coat of paint done on the tender chassis but I've not been too well this week and didn't feel up to doing the job right. Better now though so I'll do it in the next day or two. Give it a couple of weeks to harden off and I'll see about getting the lining out sorted, then I can start putting it back together - the wheels are already done as are the springs. I will need to make some new hornkeeps though, they seem to be missing along with the rear draw hook and the dummy steam heat and vacuum hoses.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2015 8:35:28 GMT
"-----and the other members were very obnoxious about having a woman on site," Yes, my sister and her two daughters experienced that many years ago now........Not here where I am now, but close...
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Post by ejparrott on Feb 7, 2015 9:37:48 GMT
That would have been somewhere round about 1970 I think. Great Grandfather never went back, though the club did plead with him on many occasions. He really did know his stuff and was always happy to help, its a family trait.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2015 9:55:38 GMT
This was about the 1980's I think.......The 2 children were oblivious to it all but Jose ( my Sister ) was very much aware...Water under the Bridge now but she still remembers it ......
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Post by ejparrott on Jun 2, 2015 10:17:34 GMT
A small update!
After 10 weeks, I've finally got a new tin of red paint for the buffer beams, so I can now get on with her again. Why is it whenever I try to support local business' I always get messed around and kicked in the teeth?? Should have just gone to Craftmaster direct again....
The weather is also coming along nicely, so all being well I'll be able to spray the tender body soon. I'd quite like to get that all put back together and then concentrate on the engine.
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Post by ejparrott on Dec 6, 2015 15:43:21 GMT
Well I did finally get the tender body sprayed......this afternoon!!! Went down to work on Friday night and took over a corner of the mezzanine, set up a little spray area. Took my Proxxon airbrush down and gave it a going over. Got two runs in it so rubber them out this morning and gave it another coat. Looked ok when I left it.
I think I'm going to splash out on a Bob Moor lining pen to do the details with. I've been giving some time to considering both this and my MW and decided there isn't really one solution to fit both engines. Ultimately I think I'll end up buying a Beulger to do the long wide straight lines on the MW, but we'll see. I'll let the tender body harden off and then do that and the chassis together. Need to get the boiler ready for retest next, then I can think about painting that too.
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Post by waggy on Dec 7, 2015 9:06:45 GMT
Ed, Sent you a P.M.
Waggy.
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Post by ejparrott on Dec 8, 2015 9:57:42 GMT
Gave it a third and final coat of paint last night, not looking too bad You can still see the runs I rubbed out on Sunday but it'll have to do. The sides of the tender are so warped and bowed I can't use a flat backed sanding block, the only real way to get rid of them will be to strip it right back. I think the lining will hide the vast majority of it though. I'm not at work today, I'm having to run the wife's Guide unit tonight for her, so it'll be tomorrow before I get to it, should be good and hard then and avoids temptation and unlucky finger prints in the paint. I need to dig my book out on liveries again and check up a few details. I'm pretty sure the water filler area in the back of the tender should be black. G.Uncle only painted the tank top though, not the insides of the raised body. I've masked off the black and painted it Crimson while I had the air brush out, on the basis that it would be much easier to repaint it black later than to paint it Crimson. I need to check up then on 1930's lining and numbering colours and make sure I've got the right stuff in. Contemplating doing the cab sides now, while the Crimson is still out
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Post by ejparrott on Jan 12, 2016 23:12:20 GMT
All being well I should have new O rings for the airbrush in the next day or two, then I can get back to the cab sides. I'm going to have to mix some new paint now which is a nuisance, it's been too long sitting now.
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Post by rogsteam1959 on Jan 12, 2016 23:43:55 GMT
Looks nice, But can you tell what RAL # comes close to Crimson? Cheers Michael
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Post by ejparrott on Jan 13, 2016 9:24:17 GMT
No, I can't I'm afraid. Sure someone can. This is 20 year old Precision Paints 'LMS Crimson Lake'
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