Martin Finney Princess Coronation (or Duchess as they are affectionately known)

Needing a break after redrawing the firebox for the Princess I decided to do a bit of machining for therapy.
I noted on the two recent Stanier tender builds that despite having brass castings for the vent pipes, none of the castings were that great and needed work to make them usable. The late David Smith (DLOS as he was known) always turned replacements and I decided to have a go myself.

Before starting I decided to have a look in my Finney Duchess kit to see what the casings were like.
I don't know why but I was slightly surprised that the vent castings were whitemetal.
Now it's worth noting my kit came from Martin Finney himself some time before the Finney 7 Team took over, so they may have upgraded the castings in the meantime. On the basis that I am not that wild about whitemetal castings I thought that making replacements for the Finney tender would be a good place to start.

I imported a snip of a GA into Fusion and used that to create myself a sketch which I then generated into a working drawing using the the drawings function in Fusion


One thing to note is that the drawing classes itself as one of your allowed 10 editable designs.





I also have a Rebuilt Scot in the pile so I did a second pair for that while I was on with it.

Don't get your hopes up for this build to start anytime soon though, sorry.

 

You, don't need to export them, just mark them as read only from the drop down under the design.
I only mentioned it just in case someone missed it and wondered why they had more drawings active than they thought.

 

Once you have done your design click on the design button just under the file menu and select drawing from the list.
If you are designing for printing, like you I can't see any advantages because it is another thing to learn. But if you plan to machine what you have designed, its useful to create a dimensioned drawing to print off to consult while doing the job.

 

Just watched a video on Working Drawings and had another little dabble