Gary L
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Post by Gary L on Oct 13, 2020 23:15:40 GMT
Some progress photos from the weekend. All of the side angles inside and outside and now in place and all that is left is the long task of rubbing back all the heads to get it all flush (invisible).  Untitled by Adam Cro, on Flickr [Snip] That's exceedingly neat work Adam. What species of rivetter did you use? (Not hard to guess why I'm asking!) Gary |
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Post by Cro on Oct 14, 2020 7:06:03 GMT
Thanks Gary, I have riveting, I'm too impatient to set things up how I probably should to do the job right but on these I found my little toggle press was perfect. It is similar to this one and I made a snap to take the 3/64" rivet head and the end of the press is flat to squeeze the rivet in flat to a slightly countersunk hole. The idea was driven from Rogers rivet squeezer but I'm not one for taking time to make impressive tooling so this was all I had to hand. I'll get a photo when in the workshop later on for you. Loving the work on the bunker, keep it up! Adam |
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Post by steamer5 on Oct 14, 2020 8:00:17 GMT
Hi Adam,
Coming on nicely! The detailing already coming to the for!
Cheers Kerrin
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Post by 92220 on Oct 14, 2020 8:11:32 GMT
Lovely sheet work there Adam!! It's going to be a beaut. when finished.
Bob.
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Post by delaplume on Oct 14, 2020 10:43:50 GMT
Hi Adam,
I'm Brunswick Green with envy---LoL !!....Beautiful job, lovely .....
Have you approached the Great Western Society for archive details ??......they were very helpful with my Great Bear research...For instance I now have copies of it's full operational history from the moment it came onto the stock list untill it was re-built as a Castle......This includes the dates of visits to Swindon for various work and/or mods etc..
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Post by Cro on Oct 14, 2020 11:18:06 GMT
Thanks Alan, thought it would be up your street. No I've not yet, I had most of what I need and a friend has just sent me a great collection of detail photos so I've hit the jackpot there! The main focus of this project is actually for Dad's Bday but not next year, in 8 years when he hits 70! He loves what I do in the detail but if it were his choice he would build a working loco with some improved areas as he does with his 2 1/2" so my aim here is detail to a degree but not going overboard as I may have done on my own loco (partly due to time and inclination) but knowing me I'll probably go all out anyway! Things like, water scoop or not....  Adam |
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Post by don9f on Oct 14, 2020 12:44:17 GMT
Yes, it looks very neat....wonderful job!
Don
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Gary L
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Post by Gary L on Oct 14, 2020 22:11:40 GMT
Thanks Gary, I have riveting, I'm too impatient to set things up how I probably should to do the job right but on these I found my little toggle press was perfect. It is similar to this one and I made a snap to take the 3/64" rivet head and the end of the press is flat to squeeze the rivet in flat to a slightly countersunk hole. The idea was driven from Rogers rivet squeezer but I'm not one for taking time to make impressive tooling so this was all I had to hand. I'll get a photo when in the workshop later on for you. Loving the work on the bunker, keep it up! Adam Thanks Adam. If my bunker comes out half as well as your tender I'll be well pleased (as well as surprised!) WRT tooling, I'm afraid I'm the same- spending time making tools always feels so unproductive unless there is no other way... if it's available I'd buy every time if I could. Is that a link though, where you refer above to your little toggle press for riveting? It is blank, so it goes nowhere -Gary |
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Post by delaplume on Oct 15, 2020 0:29:40 GMT
Hello Adam, I know it's early days yet but have you given any thought to the livery ??.........Just to be totally outrageous you could go for the very short-termed, scandalous SVR Black !!
To be completely accurate }--- SVR Half-Black
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Post by dscott on Oct 15, 2020 1:27:31 GMT
Looking great Adam.
Such a warning about the Drawings, sometimes I have another go at the BULLDOG...
Then revert to my other Projects most of which are these days via the drawing board.
Even the simple models leave out design ideas on just how to put them together especially after painting.
David and Lily.
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Post by Cro on Oct 15, 2020 8:56:01 GMT
Thanks Gary, I have riveting, I'm too impatient to set things up how I probably should to do the job right but on these I found my little toggle press was perfect. It is similar to this one and I made a snap to take the 3/64" rivet head and the end of the press is flat to squeeze the rivet in flat to a slightly countersunk hole. The idea was driven from Rogers rivet squeezer but I'm not one for taking time to make impressive tooling so this was all I had to hand. I'll get a photo when in the workshop later on for you. Loving the work on the bunker, keep it up! Adam Thanks Adam. If my bunker comes out half as well as your tender I'll be well pleased (as well as surprised!) WRT tooling, I'm afraid I'm the same- spending time making tools always feels so unproductive unless there is no other way... if it's available I'd buy every time if I could. Is that a link though, where you refer above to your little toggle press for riveting? It is blank, so it goes nowhere -Gary Hi Gary, Sorry this is the link - HERE |
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Post by Cro on Oct 15, 2020 8:56:56 GMT
Hello Adam, I know it's early days yet but have you given any thought to the livery ??.........Just to be totally outrageous you could go for the very short-termed, scandalous SVR Black !! To be completely accurate }--- SVR Half-Black I plan to replicate the preserved state as that's just easier frankly! |
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Post by delaplume on Oct 15, 2020 10:42:07 GMT
Hello Adam, I know it's early days yet but have you given any thought to the livery ??.........Just to be totally outrageous you could go for the very short-termed, scandalous SVR Black !! To be completely accurate }--- SVR Half-Black I plan to replicate the preserved state as that's just easier frankly! Yes------- quite right-----as with our Rogers 15xx it'll keep all those rivet counters at bay.. PS}--- Do you remember the SVR "Half-Black" episode ?? |
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Post by ettingtonliam on Oct 15, 2020 11:03:12 GMT
SVR 'Half Black'? Please tell!
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Post by ilvaporista on Oct 15, 2020 11:14:00 GMT
SVR 'Half Black'? Please tell! An April 1st spoof printed in Steam Railway in days before the net. There was outrage in the letters page and a certain Mr Nula Seer came in for a lot of stick. One side was painted black whilst the loco was being stripped for overhaul at the Severn Valley. |
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Post by andrewtoplis on Oct 15, 2020 11:30:13 GMT
Found on RMWeb - you can see the green on the back!  |
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Post by delaplume on Oct 15, 2020 21:57:40 GMT
Found on RMWeb - you can see the green on the back! Ah-- that brings back some happy memories !!..........Young Alan is in there--somewhere... By the way, Mr. Nula Seer was the then SVR Chief Engineer Alun Rees........spelt backwards !! I've lifted this from Wikipedia}---- During its restoration in 1984, the locomotive was the subject of a 'spoof' by Steam Railway magazine. The engine was being restored on the Severn Valley Railway and workshops foreman Alun Rees suggested to editor David Wilcock to repaint the driver's side of the locomotive in BR lined black as 3717. This took place, and several pictures of the engine as 3717 were taken on shed at Bridgnorth and in the Bridgnorth yard. It was almost discovered by John Coiley when he visited the railway that year, but Rees had the engine parked with its driver's side along the workshop's wall so it couldn't be seen. The images were released in 1985 with the note that 'proposals for a double chimney and high sided tender were narrowly defeated...' This subsequently upset many GWR enthusiasts; however, the engine never ran in this livery, either in service or in preservation Ooopppsssssss........drifting off piste again.... |
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Post by jma1009 on Oct 15, 2020 22:30:39 GMT
Hi Alan,
I don't know how many times you have mentioned the Steam Railway magazine spoof, but it has been quite a lot.
And perhaps we don't need to hear it all again.
From what I understand, and is more pertinent to Adam's work is that City of Truro since whenever - probably since when it went to York Museum in the 1930's has a peculiar hybrid tender that doesn't match any of the GWR tender diagrams.
Cheers,
Julian
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Post by ettingtonliam on Oct 15, 2020 23:22:38 GMT
Well, I for one hadn't heard it before.
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Gary L
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Post by Gary L on Oct 16, 2020 0:57:33 GMT
Thanks Adam. If my bunker comes out half as well as your tender I'll be well pleased (as well as surprised!) WRT tooling, I'm afraid I'm the same- spending time making tools always feels so unproductive unless there is no other way... if it's available I'd buy every time if I could. Is that a link though, where you refer above to your little toggle press for riveting? It is blank, so it goes nowhere -Gary Hi Gary, Sorry this is the link - HEREAh, many thanks Adam. I see they even mention rivetting as a use for the tool Gary |
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