Mossys 3D Models

Yeah, just being thick Tom as you say the C's had tenders

 

Rebuilt Filler Cap but now circular

 

+#Rob,

I have a Gladiator N8/9 and it has oval filler tops. So you needs 4 or 5 sets of round Filler tops. I need 2.

 

In amongst all the questions and redrawing of the tank filler, I have slowly been progressing with the chassis. To date I have concentrated on the visible furniture on one side of the chassis and the brake gear, which I finally managed to decipher from the GA diagram. Most of the brake gear and spring assemblies won't be visible hidden behind wheels and steps, but I seem to have got a mild dose of Pulhanitest. Even if they can't be seen I know they are there, btw does anyone have a cure for this peculiar affliction?

At some point fairly soon I need to think about frame spacers, fastenings between the chassis and body, engine mounts etc but not just for now. The most daunting bit is designing some form of bogie for the front and back bogie wheels. The outer two holes in the chassis are just there to remind me it needs doing. It is going to be a fixed 4 coupled engine so I haven't tried to allow for hornblocks or other forms of compensated chassis.

 

Rob, misplaced an F8 hardly surprising what with 48 un-started kits and at least 2 other all over your work bench I'm sure it will soon turn up.

Tom, love the boiler stay photo, I have just invented something very nominal which will now require deleting but such is life. More than happy for you to keep firing photos over to keep me on the straight and narrow.

 

Paul

I have never really thought about getting them lost waxed, I suppose the cost depends on how many you doing and who is doing it though it would make them far more robust.
The ones for sale on LG are £8 a pair. Rob is the man for lost wax castings.

Progress also due to lots of friends and all help is hugely appreciated even bad minefield jokes.

 

Tom's boiler stay photo has really got me stumped, drawing the actual stay is simple, but how to get the cut through the boiler cladding is foxing me for now. I figure 3 stays per side so 6 in all and all need to be consistent. One serious thought is to chop the boiler in two reducing the number of cuts needed by half and when happy then mirroring the second side. In order to create the cuts I think I need to create a plane at a tangent, which is a function I haven't used before so it's another step into the unknown.

Another feature I have been looking at and contemplating is creating what I think is called a sniffting valve (but could be wrong). What appears to be the final handrail support on the right side of the smokebox is actually a valve. Creation of the valve should be relatively simple but the hard part is replicating its operating mechanism. The handrail was hollow and ended a few inches short of the valve. An operating rod slid down the inside of the hand rail and connected to the valve. Given I was planning to use .7mm wire for the handrail, how do I do the operating rod. My brain hurts, Dr Moss has recommended an evening off cuddled up to a malt whisky. Not a bad plan.

 

Tom,

I didn't spot the boiler stays on the photo of 1579, 2 per side would be easier than 3 but that's for tomorrow.
Did the whole class have the blower valve on the righthand side or was it just the earliest batches.

 

Thanks Mate. I'm trying to create one of the first batch of 10 as built, which number is yet to be decided.

 

After some early morning shenanigans (who needs mind bending drugs when you can play with fusion 360), I finally manged to get boiler stays fitted to the model. These are temporary awaiting a nod of approval from the experts.

Two per side as pointed out by Tom



And a close up of the front stay and updated filler cap