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Post by ejparrott on Oct 14, 2014 19:19:25 GMT
No probs! There are all sorts of other engines featured for many regions for those who may be interested! Just search in his YouTube channel. Good luck with finishing off and painting, the tender chassis of the V2 has once again rusted over, but I don't want to paint it until all the stretchers and ideally the holes for the pipe clips have been worked out and drilled, some time away yet, guess I'll just keep on polishing it off every so often! Cheers Ben Why not give it a light dusting of that Zinc primer, it's easy enough to remove if you need to and it won't go rusty? +1 |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2014 20:25:07 GMT
What zinc primer? I only got the acid stuff from Halfords.
(Sorry Julian)
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Post by jma1009 on Oct 14, 2014 22:08:57 GMT
hi ben, ive used davids/isopon 182 zinc spray primer for some 25-30 years obtainable from Halfords. not ideal painting weather especially for spraying at the moment! ive had a very productive evening in the workshop making the smokebox dart crossbar, plus removing the raised boss on the smokebox door gunmetal casting and replacing with the A1X type of boss made out of stainless. anyway a few pics...   cheers, julian |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2014 23:08:41 GMT
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Post by Jim on Oct 15, 2014 2:04:56 GMT
Agreed!  Jim |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2014 9:03:01 GMT
Cheers Julian, sorry for the small hijack!
Stepney is looking spot on! Very impressive and I can't wait to see her run!
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Post by jma1009 on Oct 15, 2014 9:28:41 GMT
thanks pete, jim, and ben!
ive used 3/16" plate for the dart cross bar as per some of my other locos. i would be very interested to know if anyone has made a 'scale' cross bar and whether if scale it will deflect in service? ive come across a few crossbars which have bent in use, plus stripped threads on the dart and wasting in the middle (so always make my darts and handles out of stainless).
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Post by jma1009 on Oct 16, 2014 21:58:17 GMT
 having said i dont like fitting bits to locos that dont 'work' ive had to eat my hat and fit the onion type oilers to the sides of the smokebox that are pure dummies! also managed a first coat of priimer to the smokebox. cheers, julian |
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Post by jma1009 on Oct 17, 2014 20:13:15 GMT
 here's what might be the last of the smokebox pics for awhile! dummy onion oilers finished and fitted to the sides of the smokebox saddle. very fiddly! i would be very interested to hear from George and Ben whether those on the fullsize Stepney are still connected up to the cylinder block and used? or are they dummies these days in fullsize? cheers, julian |
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Post by Roger on Oct 17, 2014 20:14:25 GMT
Fair enough to add something which is a distinctive feature like that. you could argue that hand rails don't 'work' since there's no miniature driver to use them.
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Post by GeorgeRay on Oct 17, 2014 20:43:13 GMT
Julian
I don't remember filling them when I was driving, but they may have been connected but not used. I have a vague idea that there was a displacement lubricator in the cab. Ben has later experience than me so might be able to provide an accurate answer.
George
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Post by jma1009 on Oct 17, 2014 20:49:33 GMT
thank you George!
if i had made cast iron cylinders they would have been quite useful as dope plugs for shell ensis oil, though i dread to think how to connect up the pipework of same inside the saddle! ive already made and tested a rather small hydrostatic lubricator to be fitted to Stepney - the sight feed will go where the hydrostatic lubricator is in fullsize in the right hand front corner of the cab.
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Post by Jim on Oct 17, 2014 21:20:27 GMT
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Post by jma1009 on Oct 17, 2014 21:40:33 GMT
hi jim,
many thanks for that link which is fascinating and i will read the whole lot!
cheers,
julian
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Post by Jim on Oct 17, 2014 22:13:11 GMT
My pleasure Julian. Jim |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2014 9:22:59 GMT
Hi all!
Right, Furness lubies or drift lubies as they are sometimes known.
As the second name suggests they only lubricate whilst the loco is drifting (rolling with no steam on) basically the round "onion" part is the reservoir with a siphon tube up the middle that a worsted trimming sits in feeding the oil down the tube, the hexagon cap on the top of the tube that attaches to the saddle contains a non return valve so that when the regulator is open the non return valve stops the reservoir being pressurised, the cylinders relying on the displacement lubie in the cab in the mean time. When the regulator is shut the oil along with the pistons movement in the cylinder opens the NRV and the oil feeds. The ones on Stepney, Fenchurch, both P classes, the C, the H, the O1, the E4 and the B4 all work. The C and H were even refitted with them as they seriously reduce ring wear. This is due to the line primarily being uphill in one direction and therefore longer periods of drifting happening. I believe the reason it is so effective is that when the regulator is open the piston will naturally centralise in the cylinder but when steam is off it relaxes slightly onto the bottom of the bore where non atomised oil from the drift lubie ends up after longer periods of drifting. Hope this clears things up a little?
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Post by Roger on Oct 18, 2014 9:44:07 GMT
What do you think Julian... Prepare your excuses for not fitting fully functioning ones immediately |
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Post by jma1009 on Oct 18, 2014 10:10:10 GMT
many thanks for your reply ben!
(starts digging big hole...)
i suppose that there are a number of things that will get fitted to Stepney that are there for appearance only and dont work but in fullsize do work. another example will be the whistle on top of the boiler. a scale whistle is far too small to be made to work. another example might be the sand boxes - these could be made to work but whether i will bother im not sure yet!
ive turned up a load of nickel silver rivets to replace the temporary screws holding the smokebox door hinge straps on, and will give these a bashing in a minute.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2014 20:01:30 GMT
Haha! Don't beat yourself up Julian! I personally would fill the sandboxes with lead as they don't work on the full size Stepney |
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Post by jma1009 on Oct 21, 2014 19:02:48 GMT
didnt manage much over the weekend apart from finishing the smokebox hinge straps with nickel silver rivets specially made up, plus doing a bit of painting. might be appropriate for david (Midland's) thread re 'idiots' the smokebox door fell down the back of the lounge radiator whilst 'curing' and needed a bit of touching up and will need a lot more rubbing down and further coats to remove the damage! cheers, julian  |
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