rrmrd66
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Post by rrmrd66 on Mar 3, 2019 12:01:52 GMT
Morning/Afternoon everybody.
About an hour and a half ago. Somewhere between York and Thirsk.
Apologies for poor quality of photo (I had left the two second delay on) and Jenny being over enthusiastic with her waving a la Railway Children.
Good to see Tornado back on the main line running the Auld Reekie tour from Doncaster to Edinburgh. Almost 12 months since she had "a bit of a do" upon her return from a major overhaul.
Congratulations to every body involved and all the hours put in, despite the trials and tribulations.
Cheers
Malcolm
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JonL
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Post by JonL on Mar 3, 2019 15:59:37 GMT
Managed to get first in class and 9th overall on our rally. Very impressive for a hairdressers car.
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Post by RGR 60130 on Mar 6, 2019 20:24:29 GMT
For the last month, a former colleague from Brazil has been staying with me for a holiday. Today we visited the National Railway Museum in York, essentially for a quick snack before going for a wander in the city. She loved it and we were there for hours.
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JonL
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Post by JonL on Mar 6, 2019 20:56:56 GMT
I haven't been there since I was 10. I would love to go back someday, but its a trek from down south!
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don9f
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Les Warnett 9F, Martin Evans “Jinty”, a part built “Austin 7” and now a part built Springbok B1.
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Post by don9f on Mar 6, 2019 21:15:36 GMT
Hi Reg, great choice of engine for a photo!
Don 👍
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Post by delaplume on Mar 7, 2019 2:29:18 GMT
Hi Reg, great choice of engine for a photo! Don 👍 great shot of the various types of injectors also....
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Post by David on Mar 9, 2019 9:16:10 GMT
Spent the afternoon working on the axleboxes I'm making for my father-in-law. I decided to let the Tormach drill the 3/8 holes which went fine.
I took the job vise and all over to the manual mill. I had to take the keys off the bottom of the vise because they don't fit in the manual mill's T-slots. But the back of the vise looks like a ground reference surface so I lined it up with the back of the mill table using a square brass bar and that got it very close.
Out comes the dial indicator and mag base. I must have lost some clamps from it because I am sure I have used the two together before but neither of the dial indicator mounting bars would fit. I turned a split bush from brass to fit over the smaller one and into the mag base clamp.
It didn't take long with a half-thou dial indicator to get it straight. I chose a reference point that would be the repeatable before and after the CNC ops had been done and I was able to pick up the X/Y zero co-ords ok. This was all pretty easy and that becomes important in about 20 minutes.
Of course Tormach supplies imperial fasteners and their T-nuts are also too big to fit in the manual mill T-slots... and I only had 2 M12 studs short enough to secure the vise clamps so only two of them went on rather than the usual 4. The 1/2" drill started grabbing and I hoped to get away with it but when it broke through the 2nd hole it grabbed hard and jagged the vise out of alignment. So I went to the big box hardware store and didn't but the M12 socket-head screws I wanted because they didn't have any so had to make do with normal M12 hex headed bolts. But at least I had 4 clamps now. I bought some M12 all-thread just in case. The piece I already had was all taken up as a drawbar.
The whole clocking in and finding X/Y=0 was performed again. Good practice.
Now I touched the 1/2" and 3/4" drill cutting edges to the grinding wheel as mentioned in Nobby's drill grinding thread another thread and it worked! They both drilled well with no sign of grabbing. Shame they're no good for steel now until I attempt to free-hand grind the flats away.
Then the boring head came into play and while it is damned confusing due to the 0.5mm backlash in the adjusting screw, which jiggers around while you're cutting, I got a good fit on 3/4" bar. This was quite a worrying operation as I don't have any good measuring equipment - only cheap digital calipers and cheap telescopic bore gauges that stick more often than not. The adjustment on the boring head really does feel a bit hit and miss - the changes in bore I was measuring were only roughly corespodent to the changes in the boring head setting. I considered breaking out another dial indicator and using that to measure the movement while I was adjusting but I couldn't find it.
I have left 6mm between the axleboxes with the intention of running a 6mm endmill back and forth between them. Then I need to skim off the stock used to clamp the whole show in the vise. There's about 6mm of that.
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Geoff
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Post by Geoff on Mar 9, 2019 11:57:59 GMT
I spent the day making the transport frame for MOK .... I discovered that my welding capabilities have not improved since last I tried ...... but I'll ger there in the end!
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Post by delaplume on Mar 9, 2019 22:24:30 GMT
Have just been watching a film on TV called}----- "The Lost City of Z" which was quite captivating at first and seemed to live up to the promises in the Trailer...........that was untill a train going through the Patagonian forest ( with realistic-looking girls in Bowler hats etc ) when viewed from the outside proved to be a Black 5 with a rake of maroon Mk. 1 standards on !!...............Later, to be hotly pursued by a GWR Manor complete with the later white lamp on it's smokebox....... It took approx 15 mins to stop laughing / crying ...........Apparently $30 million was spent on it's making ........I gave up and went back to the small milling machine... www.imdb.com/title/tt1212428/videoplayer/vi2198189593en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_City_of_Z
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Post by David on Mar 10, 2019 0:53:56 GMT
I read the book about Fawcett and The Lost City earlier this year. It was great read. I finished the axleboxes today. This required cutting a 6mm slot between each one to the depth of the axleboxes then removing 8mm of stock from the rear of them which separated them. This last operation didn't go quite as planned as there was about 6mm material stick out either side of the flanges and when I got to the last cut the flycutter was picking up the edge and bending it over. That looked very dicey so I had to machine the excess rear stock down to the same width as the axlebox and then do the flycutting operation. It's time that had to be spent either at the squaring up stage or at the end but I didn't know this would happen so didn't do it up front which would have been the correct time. You can see the tearing to the rear of the part in the photo above. This was only a 0.5mm cut. The endmill is in there to clean those edges back to the flanges to stop this happening. I was able to clear most of the material 1mm at a time but when I got down to near final size I decided to go a bit easy. I found a YouTube video about open-ended slotting in F360. It's tracing. Which I'd tried but not got to work. So I had the right idea - draw a sketch line where I wanted the centre of the cutter to go. If your sketch is at the top of the part you give the trace operation an axial offset to get it to the bottom of the slot. Give it axial offset passes to go down in steps. Figure out the number and depth of steps yourself. Give it some path extension to give the cutter a bit of room either end. Simple! I would have got a much better finish on the top and bottom of the axle boxes with this and saved myself some handle turning and second guessing when the slots didn't look like they were in the middle... luckily neither of these faces are important, nor is the overall height of the axlebox or the vertical position of the bore, within reason. If I did them again there are a few things I'd do differently and few things I'd like to get out of F360 to reduce the manual component. This lot turned out to be about 4.5 hours on the Tormach just to mill the sliding faces and flanges and the holes to 3/8" , 11 hours manual squaring the cast bar, drilling, boring, separating and getting rid of waste stock, and about 4 or 6 hours programming. Another 30 mins to clean them all up and stamp an ID on them to keep the matched pairs. The top and bottoms of the boxes are a bit rough because I was doing that manually and going fairly quickly. I might still clean up the top face and spot for the oil hole. A 1/2" drill chuck on an arbor that the Tormach would accept would have allowed me to drill out to 5/8 on the CNC. That would have allowed 'boring' with an endmill with only say a 1.4mm width of cut which I would have been more willing to try. It also would have made the manual boring a single pass operation once I'd dialled in the diameter.
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Post by steamer5 on Mar 10, 2019 6:05:19 GMT
Got the club newsletter a week or so back, there’s a club day tomorrow, Provence hoilday as it’s a Monday They asked if those of us that don’t come down often could come & bring our loco. So off to my Dads today, firstly to wish him a 92nd birthday, then to load up both our locos, neither have had a run for over 10 years. Dad excuse he’s getting old, mine work life getting in the way.....oh to say nothing of haven blower the superheater, they were copper now stainless. We also have a friend’s loco on board. They are all 5”, Dads is a NZR WW 4-6-2 tank, mine Nigel Gresley & our friend is a pair of Swiss electrics, sorry not sure of the actual type. Should be a fun day. Dad & I might even get a new boiler cert
Cheers Kerrin
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barlowworks
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Post by barlowworks on Mar 10, 2019 8:31:56 GMT
Hi Kerrin
Some photos would be nice.
Mike
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JonL
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Post by JonL on Mar 10, 2019 9:41:59 GMT
Good luck with the certificates Kerrin, as stated, would love to see them
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Geoff
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Post by Geoff on Mar 10, 2019 9:50:53 GMT
Took 'Kitty' out for a run today .... not a bad run for a 56 year old loco .... but she has had a good re-build by Chris Cairns
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JonL
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Post by JonL on Mar 10, 2019 11:18:18 GMT
Just ran around making and fitting L-brackets to clamp over my workshop roof; my workshop is only tiny but the roof would make a very effective sail in these high winds...
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Midland
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Post by Midland on Mar 10, 2019 18:58:14 GMT
Fellow posters, You do such interesting things I am humbled by what insignificant contributions I can make! But we did a little. My delicate little flower of a life's companion suggested she would like a potting shed, so we removed the grandchildren's playhouse (where today they would smoke the pot) and started the project. her indoors by David Goyder, on Flickr and her new shed (WIP), IMG_1313 by David Goyder, on Flickr I, on the other hand, was given Sunday off due to high winds and my finding her a door for £6, so I put some more detail on this sodding tender and listened to two acts of Parsifal (Bayreuth performance) as we are going to Bayreuth in July for the real thing, yes, in Dickie's own theater. Some of you will be jealous, some think I am crazy, some will ask who is Richard Wagner!!! (Ride of the Valkyries bloke) IMG_1316 by David Goyder, on Flickr Doors next and the bloody lamp irons then done!! Cheers David
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Post by Oily Rag on Mar 10, 2019 21:21:17 GMT
Friday arvo, I gave the platform side of # 974 a wipe over. Saturday was a trip on the driver's shoulder, then the arvo was a firing trip. Sunday, I light up and then a trip driving. From the driver's side while we have our spin on the table. Me balancing 974 on the Amamoor table.
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Post by dscott on Mar 11, 2019 0:06:16 GMT
We went the 19 miles to Dreweatts in Newbury for their look at day! Oh what a beautiful collection of models to admire all in one place. The ones at the TOP END you couldn't fault if you ever dared to get them out and drive! 2 sizes of Dutchess to choose from and many photos taken of the others. As our loco is still living in the car I almost sold her in the car park which would have been funny! The guy I was chatting to almost bought her on the web site but his sensible Wife had better ideas! So a day without filing wheels? You do get into a style with them but my shoulders are feeling better!
At the bottom end was a superb Yarrow boiler sat on a 7 1/4 trolley LOT 39 page 57. Supplying a Stuart Turner 7A with too much steam via gas burners of a very exposed nature! I thought it super for Childrens parties and burgers could be hung each side for that GRIDDLED LOOK!!! David and Lily. dreweatts.com
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Post by Jim Scott on Mar 11, 2019 11:41:24 GMT
Tynemouth Long Sands is a favourite place for dog walkers. However, this guy took a 100 year old railway bridge for a walk instead. youtu.be/IYKIu6DVdo0Jim S
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Post by ettingtonliam on Mar 11, 2019 12:44:50 GMT
Whats the story behind the bridge removal Jim? Most of the ones of that vintage I took out were rotten, fit only for scrap. Was this one going to be reused?
I was intrigued to see that the transporter was self propelled.
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