Post by fostergp6nhp on Jun 1, 2015 20:59:15 GMT
I have just started the construction of a 5" gauge 2-6-2 of the WDLR from WW1, its approx 2 3/4"-1ft. This is to be a fill in project between sessions on my 4" scale foster Showmans road loco while waiting the finances to recover for the next castings purchase. The intention is to avoid castings because nobody markets them and I am not a pattern maker and to use bar & plate with machining from the solid and fabrication for the construction.
So far I have made the following bits; pilot beam, drag beam, drag beam doubler plate, pilot and drag beam gussets, rear stay. The tank stay plates are bandsawn out and just need filing to size. I have outshopped machining a datum on one edge of the 15mm thick frame bars as at approx 53" long it would be a right ball ache on my mill involving numerous resets due to table travel limitation, thanks to Ed Parrott for this as he has access to a mill with enough table travel to do it in one pass.
So far I have made the following bits; pilot beam, drag beam, drag beam doubler plate, pilot and drag beam gussets, rear stay. The tank stay plates are bandsawn out and just need filing to size. I have outshopped machining a datum on one edge of the 15mm thick frame bars as at approx 53" long it would be a right ball ache on my mill involving numerous resets due to table travel limitation, thanks to Ed Parrott for this as he has access to a mill with enough table travel to do it in one pass.
