Paul's Nellie

Hi Kim - I'm going to try

Got the bunker rear formed and fitted - will post pics later, then tried to fit the beading - too short

So in front of the telly and sulked, noticed what erm trash was on and came back into the cave then remembered I had some phosphour bronze pickup strip about the right size - game on, now where did I put it ...........

So this morning found the strip and now warming up the iron to start, I will post up pics later

Paul

 

He means the smoke box - but we'll get him there eventually, I showed Toto the boiler placed in position and the bits needed to form the smoke box - to say the bad language filter got upset would be an understatement

So the piccies

The rear bunker before fettling


And fitting the beads - Slaters Phosphour Bronze pick up strips (ref 1220) 1/16 thou.
Curved and then tinned

Soldered in place and trimmed oversize

Same repeated on the other side, and then a strip cut to fit between them.

And then the fettling begins, using a modelling knife, glass fiber brush and files

Getting shiney

Almost there


Paul

 

Cheers Ron

I am enjoying it, and although the clean up takes a while - it should get quicker as I improve , I'm finding it quite relaxing (most of the time ).

Time to make the soup for lunch, then its the coal rails next

Paul

 

Hi Gary

More daunting than difficult

I used a piece of 12mm bar and bent it slowly with a mix of fingers and thumb, and trapping the piece of brass between the cutting mat (stops it slipping) and the bar and applying pressure.
A pair of smooth faced pliers are handy to apply localised pressure (I found the centre needed this), if you don't have smooth faced pliers wrap tissue around the pliers jaws, the pressure your applying isn't heavy so should protect the surface.

Any discrepancies can be filled with solder then filed to suit

Paul

 

Cheers Guy's

For some reason my files have all gone a bit nervous - which one is heading for the chop and a severe hair cut.

Coal rails have been added, still needs a bit more cleaning up


But started on the roof

Jim's instructions recommend adding additional strips to the under side of the roof if using the woodern roof.

Using the 12mm bar and a piece of corrugated cardboard formed the curved roof.



Then cut some of the spare brass from the frame to create the strips, again these were curved by placing the brass on the cardboard and rolling the bar backwards and forwards

The soldered into place. I tinned both parts, then with the aid of the peg clamp sweated them together



Then two strips cut to fill the gaps, and all filed smooth.

Further scraps were bent and soldered in to place to hold the roof in place.


Intially two were fitted to get the front to back setting, then an additional four for the corners.
The roof stays on if you invert the loco, but you can't lift the loco by the roof - it will come off, probably best that way.

As can be seen from the left hand spectacle, ive a little trimming to do



The boiler next

Paul

 

Thanks guy's - although the photo's are really useful for showing how much cleaning up is required.

One tip - as I have been primarily using Templers telux flux - a bit like fluxite, it cleans off really easy with cheap nail varnish remover (basically acetone). It's also good for removing traces on the selotape used to stick the etchings to the packaging.

Ah well back to the boiler - deep breath and weeeeeeeeee

Paul

 

Well that wasn't as bad as I thought it would be - fingers very warm but not burnt



Ah, now I see the repercussions of going off piste - luckily I got away with it. Itis now that the tank inners should be installed, and if the gap is too tight for the boiler to fit in the tank top can be reduced in size to increase the gap. As I said luckily M=y boiler fits very snugly but does fit, as that would have been a right b*****d to fix

and just to prove it fits



I had tried it a few days ago before the boiler was fully formed to show Toto via skype that the smoke box needs to be completely formed by the builder

Time for a coffee then some filing - the edge of the overlap on the boiler needs to be filed smooth.

Paul