Showing posts with label Steam Tram. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Steam Tram. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 09, 2023

Completed tram (well, nearly)

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I'm calling this one done. Well, nearly anyway. I little revisit will be made in the future.  The finished tram, looks in my opinion, ve...
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Monday, May 08, 2023

Tram roof

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  The tram roof makes use of a 3D printed interior skelton, on to which the builder sticks a piece of plastic. The holes for safety valve an...
Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Wired up and working

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  Since I can't hide the Loco Remote and battery in the water tanks, they have to fit under the footplate. Fortunatly, there's plent...
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Monday, April 24, 2023

Getting tanked up

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  Regular readers will know that my plan had been to build a pair of side tanks for the steam tram. These would replace the saddle tank that...
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Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Find me a driver

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  Th tram needs a driver, and the only unpainted figure I had was too tall. As, it seems, and I, in miniature form.  Digging through my coll...
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Monday, April 17, 2023

Painted body

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  Fire up the Badger 100! Keeping the upper and lower halves of the tram sperate, makes painting easy. The top is Revell 48 - Sea Green - be...
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Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Boiler painted

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  A blast of matt black aerosol provided most of the colour for the boiler. The rest of the work was just picking out the pretty bits.  Wood...
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Monday, April 10, 2023

Boiler built

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  With a free Saturday afternoon, and a freshly purchased DVD box set of Blake's 7 's first series for background, I got some time ...
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Thursday, April 06, 2023

Body in primer

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  There's not much detail to go on the steam tram body - just some handrails. The knobs for these are nicely 3D printed, and I reamed th...
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Tuesday, April 04, 2023

Boiler tubing

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In this episode, our hero proves that sometimes that junk you hang onto for many years, does eventually come in handy.   If I'm fitting ...
Monday, April 03, 2023

Just build it!

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  A dearth of  modelling time, but plenty of thinking time, is causing me problems with the steam tram project. That, and all the very helpf...
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Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Testing the Loco Remote

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  Steam tram control will be via a Loco Remote unit. The cheapest version was selected as I don't need sound or lights on this model. P...
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Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Steam tram boiler

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  Work on the steam tram has been very limited recently, but I have had time to look at the boiler. 3D printed on a filament printer, it nee...
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Tuesday, March 07, 2023

The skirt

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  I think skirt is the correct term here. It's the bit of the body that covers there wheels to protect pedestrians and animals from the ...
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Monday, March 06, 2023

Body building

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  The tram body is a very quick assembly job. All the laser-cut acrylic parts slot into one another, with no cleaning up required. SIdes are...
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Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Rods on, chassis finished

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With the wheel inserts in, getting the chassis working is simply a matter of fitting the bolts, and slotting on the rods.  Lengths of plasti...
Monday, February 27, 2023

Wheel inserts

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  A nifty feature of many Boot Lane kits is the conversion of Binnie wheels into driving wheels by using some 3D printed inserts. A pair ar...
Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Steam tram chassis

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In thoery, assembling the Boot Lane chassis is a screwdriver job. Acrylic sides are screwed to 3D printed spacers. Not quite idiot-proof, bu...
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Monday, February 20, 2023

Winifred the steam tram

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  My parents (and me) like the team at Boot Lane Works . After a chat at the NGRS last year, my Dad ended up with a Rose on his workbench, s...
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