Oops. I had a horrible feeling this would happen.
Now I have a completed body, if I place it on the skirts and peer down through the chimney hole, it doesn't line up with the hole in the smokebox.
Why?
Simple. I am stupid.
You see, there are two wrappers in the boiler area - once for the firebox and another for the smokebox. One is narrower than the other. And I got them the wrong way around. Smokebox wrapper on firebox and the hole in the roof doesn't line up.
I could just fit the chimney through the roof and be done with it. Seeing the compromise would be very difficult once the body is on. The trouble is, I would know it is wrong.
So, I now have to dismantle the various bits in the middle and put them together properly. The way I would have had I looked at the plan so generously provided by Tanllan. Good job this is fun isn't it?
6 comments:
Sorry if I'm missing something...could you not just fill the hole in the roof and move the chimney along a few mm?
The smokebox and firebox wrappers are quite a bit different in width so it would still be wrong and anoy me. You are right though, that would be the easier and more sensible option.
To be honest I am with you, it would really hack me off and I would probably change it too...but some folk are sane and make compromises!!
What about having the only Y6 with a swan-neck chimney?
No,no,no,no and again no. I can't bodge it, they would never let me join the finescale club!
That could be a blessing in disguise...
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