Showing posts with label Hudswell Clarke shunter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hudswell Clarke shunter. Show all posts
Monday, October 18, 2021

Metal bomping

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A busy week means minimal progress on the Hudswell Clarke shunter. All I've managed to do is bomp the rivets in the body parts.  As usua...
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Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Dirt stops solder - deliberatly

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Time for a job I don't enjoy, soldering the washers on to the crank pins to hold the rods in place. It's one of those jobs where eve...
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Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Whirling cranks

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I hate this bit. Flycranksare a pain in model form. Part of me wondered about chopping the conrods short and leaving them off - but I'll...
Wednesday, October 06, 2021

Cutting broaches

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I spent ages looking for the axle the flycranks are attached to, before realising the great bit piece of brass rod was it. I'm not sure ...
Tuesday, October 05, 2021

Flycranks

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  Why are there so many flycranks on the kit etch? I pondered this for a while, then remembered that Romford and Gibson wheels have slightly...
Thursday, September 30, 2021

Chassis paint

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    Before the motor'n'stuff go into the chassis, it needs paint.  That's a simple enough job - give the metal another good clea...
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Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Mystery metal

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  Time for some chassis detailing, and I find at the ends there should be some metal brackets. The fold up from the etch nicely enough and I...
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Tuesday, September 28, 2021

A running chassis

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  Crunch time. After three chassis builds, will the wheels turn over then power is on?  The omens were good. Those rods slipped straight on,...
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Wednesday, September 22, 2021

MORE new spacers

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  Finally! News 12mm wide spacers (I measured the width of the motor, something I should have done in the first place) and the whole thing c...
Tuesday, September 21, 2021

New spacers

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  After a little head scratching, I decided that there wasn't any way I could accurately reduce the width of the frame spacers fitted to...
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Monday, September 20, 2021

That's not so good then

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  With the chassis assembled for the Hudswell Clarke, and the motor and gearbox running, all I have to do is slip the later into the former ...
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Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Motor and gearbox

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    I'm still rusty at kit building, but some things are starting to come back to me. The gearbox in this kit seems familiar for a start...
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Tuesday, September 14, 2021

Pink chassis cleaning

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  It seems that Shiny Sinks , my favoured cleaner for post-soldering sessions on etched locomotive kits is no more. Maybe my annual purchase...
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Monday, September 13, 2021

Chassis on the jig

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  Since this is a blog build, and not a magazine one, I can use any bit of fancy-pants kit at my disposal, without worrying how anyone else ...
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Wednesday, September 08, 2021

Sides and spacers

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Moving on the big bits of metal, chassis sides and spacer were removed from the fret, bent up, and then test slotted together - something th...
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Tuesday, September 07, 2021

Bendy rods

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  With the soldering iron warmed up, water in the tip cleaning spong and solder and flux to hand, it's off to work on the Hudswell Clar...
Monday, September 06, 2021

Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0 shunter

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For a few weeks, I've been in the mood to do some soldering. Maybe this is a sign of my modelling mojo returning, or just that I fancy d...
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