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V&T Ore Car Project

Here and there this week, I finished my strip brass shearing / cutting / chamfering / bending / drilling / deburring.

On to tube and rod.

Cheers,
Cliff

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The final bin parts got printed today…

… and the brass pile is growing, with 8 more parts to go.

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Nice. What’s your blackener of choice Cliff?

Thanks Neil. I think the Birchwood Casey brass black might work the best, but Jax is about half the price (in bulk) and it’s doing ok. So I guess Jax. Do you have anything better or different in mind?

Boy, I don’t know have you looked into the Ewes not black Yews wood not brass or perhaps Peters Ass bluing agent? Me personally I would have gone to the Krylon flat black and dull cleared it with a pearl flop then installed purple underglow on a solar timer with unubtanium double super cells.

Lol, actually the other way around Cliff - I liked what you did and wondered what it was.

I had a bottle of Jax abut 2 house moves ago but haven’t seen it since then so I’ll have to restock sometime. Birchwood Casey is expensive here too, I have to get it from a gun shop at premium $$.

I have been know to use flat black spray paint roo, but missed the pearl flop. Pictures? :grin:

Cheers
N

I think that will be the story of my life for the next six months or more!

@Cliff_Jennings Great progress. These are going to make a really nice ore train.

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You’re lucky I’m too busy with brass today to report you for making me imagine this.

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The brass is done enough. There are wire bits to be formed for hangng the brake shoes, but they’ll need to be formed around the shoe, and I haven’t done that. Here’s the haul, sans said hangers and already blacked journal brace straps.

Several bits need soldering together, so I’m working out the jigs for that.

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Ive made a couple jigs for soldering bits together, and test drove them today. One is a couple layers of lasered mdf, with small nails poked through. My soldering was sloppy on this first set, so hopefully I’ll improve. Or take sandpaper to it, whichever comes first.

The second one is printed from a hi-temp resin. I made a big notch at the joint to put heat-sink clips on, but turns out I didn’t need them because, at full heat and pressing down, I couldn’t make the big Weller gun melt the stuff. I was really impressed, it’s like a ceramic.

The indentation on the lower left is to solder a #00 washer to a #00-90 screw head, part of the brake linkage.

Reminds me of an Egyptian “ankh”, those were the rage back in my high school days…

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Yeah, well the 1985 Chrysler LeBaron arm rests holding the jig didn’t fair so well against the strength of the “Big Weller Gun”

Soldering is now done.

What is left before you begin to assemble :thinking:

Hmmmm…

  • brake shoe hangers (final brass part)
  • brass blackening
  • lettering for the bins (just a number, on each side)
  • bin part weathering

That’s about it, nothing major. Thanks for asking.

The NeverEnding Story (German: Die unendliche Geschichte ) is a 1984 fantasy film, co-written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen

Tell me about it. And I just remembered, I need to make those ankh things. Oh, and solder a washer onto the door shafts…

Oh, once again Boo Hoo …go buy a box of Legos and cry about how repetitive it is then.

I was only answering Sean, he’s the one getting antsy. Hell I’ll probably be milking this until October, the way things are going.

[edited to ad this:] :grin:

might be interesting to know, how it comes out in the end - timewise.
how many building hours for this consist, per minute it will run on your layout.

your love for details could only be beaten by one thing. if the rooster would decide to put graffity on all his silverlings…