Here we are after an hour of painstaking reassembly tonight. It is incredible how a paint thickness of a few microns can cause parts to stop fitting as they did – the handrail had to be stripped back to brass to get in in and the firebox didn’t fit into the boiler without fettling too. The motion is all connected up and the motor reinstalled – not without having to resort to using superglue on a screwdriver to get the screws back in!
The handrail and brake gear cross rods are now glued in.
What remains to be done?
- Install nameplates
- Touch up areas where paint has got knocked/missed.
- Glue in driver/fireman/bunker false floor/bucket (add sand into bucket too)
- Add coal to bunker bottom hatch, rust to rivets and possibly some water stains near the filler hatch. Add weathering powders around cab floor and smokebox door.
- Reinstall rear coupling (had to be removed to get larger motor in/out)
- Install buffers on accompanying wagon at same height as loco and add couplings for that wagon (fabricated tonight ready).
- Install power coupling between loco and wagon
- Design some kind of tarpaulin for accompanying wagon (painted bacofoil?)
- Add copper pipework to loco between smokebox and cab and at bottom of gauge glasses.
- test loco and then fix 10ba nuts on big end with retainer in the thread
- Find a suitable box for storage/transport.
- Attend Stoneleigh show.
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