To be fair, mostly I wasn’t good enough at holding things in position. It isn’t the soldering so much as me trying to take shortcuts. Silly me…
Yeah, I NEVER take any short cuts when I build as it’s all by the book !
The Book of Rooster chapter 21(this June) verse 69
Jim Rowson said:
To be fair, mostly I wasn’t good enough at holding things in position. It isn’t the soldering so much as me trying to take shortcuts. Silly me…
It’s NOT cheating! (https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-foot-in-mouth.gif)
It’s just the only way to make sure things don’t shift when you don’t want them to! I always used a jig - and LOTS of pins to hold everything down. But, when it’s complete it always amazed me at how strong it really was. (And, quite frankly, I was always amazed at how good it looked! (https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-embarassed.gif))
Awesome. (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-smile.gif)
Rooster said:
Yeah, I NEVER take any short cuts when I build as it’s all by the book !
The Book of Rooster chapter 21(this June) verse 69
I never knew Roosters could read! (https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-foot-in-mouth.gif)
They can peck a book open, but their reading comprehension is VERY low…
Time to work on trains: priceless!
Today I got to build a ladder to provide access to the roof rack on the railtruck. To start with, a jig:
And a test fit as I am partway along:
Here’s the ladder “done” (though the top part needs to be trimmed):
And, after trimming and priming:
This is very similar to the way Ray Dunakis did the ladder on the back of his railcar (see the first post here for a pointer to that fine build).
Cheers!
Very nice work. Takes a steady hand.
Doc
Nicely done bit of detail(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
I like that jig, brutally simple, eminently effective.
It’s because of people like you, Jim, with projects like this that I continue to try to resurrect my son’s B’mann railtruck! Keep it up!
Jim when I soldered my ladder for my city water tower I soldered the brass to a wooden yard stick, your way looks easier but not good for someone a shaky as me, Just keep it in mind when you get old and shaky like me, love your work, Bill
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Jim when I soldered my ladder for my city water tower I soldered the brass to a wooden yard stick, your way looks easier but not good for someone a shaky as me, Just keep it in mind when you get old and shaky like me, and when the latter is right at 3’ that’s a lot of shaky love your work, Bill
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Rack painted, slats added, installed.
Still need to weather/rust it, but a bit of progress!
[edited to remove duplicate sentence. doh!]
HOT DANG !!!(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
With that fuel tank, that thing should run forever…(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
Or until the battery runs down…
Just wonderful! Very nice. I like brass a lot; it ends up looking good AND VERY strong. Well done.
That looks really good.