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Gauge 1 Britannia: An update
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Building a live-steam Gauge 1 Britannia. Sunday, 13 June 2010. Long time since the last update! New addition to the family has seen attention focused elsewhere. That said, I think I must be quite unique in that not many people can say that they telephoned from a labour ward in between contractions in early labour to order a rivet embosser tool! Funny what you remember to do when you are sitting through a 3-day labour! My priorities over the summer will be something along the lines of:. 5 Add rivet detail...
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Gauge 1 Britannia: Tender drag beam
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Building a live-steam Gauge 1 Britannia. Sunday, 4 July 2010. The long-suffering wife allowed me a couple of hours in the shed today and further progress was made on the drag beam for the tender. The drag and buffer beams are the key parts of the tender chassis as they hold the two tender frames together, once have they are finished I will have a proper rolling tender chassis. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Useful Gauge 1 Links. Barrett Engineering - Loco kits. Gauge 1 Model Co.
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Gauge 1 Britannia: Tender
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Building a live-steam Gauge 1 Britannia. Sunday, 24 October 2010. Managed to mess up the drag and buffer beams last month whilst trying to drill and tap the holes for the fixings to the frames. (broke a drill bit in one and a tap in the other! Had a hectic couple of months recently but managed to get an hour in the shed today and make a good start on a new rear buffer beam. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Useful Gauge 1 Links. Barrett Engineering - Loco kits. Gauge 1 Model Co.
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Gauge 1 Britannia: Riveting stuff!
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Building a live-steam Gauge 1 Britannia. Friday, 30 July 2010. Spent some time trying out the rivet embossing tool from Metalsmith Ltd (see link right) - it is the perfect match for the tender kit from Model Engineers Laser. It's actually a lot quicker that I expected to add the rivet detail. Must remember when I do the other side that the sides are handed. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Useful Gauge 1 Links. Barrett Engineering - Loco kits. Gauge 1 Model Co. Gauge One Model Railway Association.
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Gauge 1 Britannia: Some piccies
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Building a live-steam Gauge 1 Britannia. Saturday, 3 July 2010. About 6 months along the way now, thought I'd post some piccies. Still some way to go yet, although I would say that there are lots of bits that have been acquired that are not pictured here, including kits for cab and tender body, crankpins, connecting and coupling rods, cylinder castings. just awaiting machining/assembling! The picture above reminds me that i need to file down the tabs on the main frames also. Useful Gauge 1 Links.
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Gauge 1 Britannia: Front bogie
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Building a live-steam Gauge 1 Britannia. Sunday, 28 March 2010. Piccy below shows the bogie after fitting the spacers, I have since silver soldered the frames. Next job is the axleboxes and springs. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Useful Gauge 1 Links. Barrett Engineering - Loco kits. Gauge 1 Model Co. Gauge One Model Railway Association. The Wagon and Carriage Works. General Model Engineering Links. Britannia Builder - Diary of a 5" gauge build. Update - Sourcing more parts.
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Gauge 1 Britannia: Tender - Rear buffer beam
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Building a live-steam Gauge 1 Britannia. Thursday, 22 April 2010. Tender - Rear buffer beam. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Useful Gauge 1 Links. Barrett Engineering - Loco kits. Gauge 1 Model Co. Gauge One Model Railway Association. The Wagon and Carriage Works. General Model Engineering Links. Britannia Builder - Diary of a 5" gauge build. Tender - Rear buffer beam. Trailing truck - side piece.
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Gauge 1 Britannia: Burner
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Building a live-steam Gauge 1 Britannia. Thursday, 29 August 2013. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Useful Gauge 1 Links. Barrett Engineering - Loco kits. Gauge 1 Model Co. Gauge One Model Railway Association. The Wagon and Carriage Works. General Model Engineering Links. Britannia Builder - Diary of a 5" gauge build. Tender side frames and dragbox.
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Gauge 1 Britannia: 4-Jaw and a Hacksaw
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Building a live-steam Gauge 1 Britannia. Sunday, 8 August 2010. 4-Jaw and a Hacksaw. Finished the axleboxes today, still need to sort some springs out but otherwise the front bogie is now pretty much finished, shown here resting on top of a machined block of brass that will eventually be a Dee cylinder block! Busy week ahead but will get back to the tender in due course. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Useful Gauge 1 Links. Barrett Engineering - Loco kits. Gauge 1 Model Co. 4-Jaw and a Hacksaw.
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Gauge 1 Britannia: Back on track
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Building a live-steam Gauge 1 Britannia. Sunday, 10 February 2013. Britannia building has been on pause until now as I have had to move the workshop. Getting back up to speed now and thanks to a kind soul in Australia I have a mass of photos and drawings to assist in progressing the Britannia. Furthermore, I have decided to go for the 'cheat' option on the cylinders and axle pump and bought these from MEL. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Useful Gauge 1 Links. Barrett Engineering - Loco kits.