Thread: Old 99

Yes Keith, Derek is one very good wood turner for sure and he makes it look simple.
The train is coming along very nicely Derek.
Keep dry and cool in your summer. Cheers Peter

Thank you, Keith and Peter. As you both know it is only practice, with anything that we do as you both know from the great pieces you build.

Hope to get the wheels done today once I finish my morning coffee

I walked out to the workshop and opened up and thought that it was a little cooler out and looked at the grass decided to cut that while it was a comfortable temperature out.
So another essential job is done and brownie points earned.

I did get into the workshop and turned the tyre part of all the wheels followed by starting to get the set up for the recess sorted so tomorrow I can complete them as I don't need to cut them out for the spokes.

So I now have 18 wheels all at the same stage. Well for the more observant amongst you will have noticed there are 20 wheels with two sets having an odd one extra well do have to have at least some spares and it does not take any longer.

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Made a simple jig to hold the wheels there is a metal pin in the centre set to the correct depth when the wheel is in place on it this gave me something as a guide to turn down to leaving a 1/8" deep recess in each wheel. The wheels are prevented from spinning on the jig by a small piece of double-sided tape. I also used the same jig to turn two doughnuts of wood which once turned and marked made two weights each for the larger wheels. I think total time to make all of the wheels is about 2 1/2 hours including coffee breaks as it does not take long to form each wheel(that a length of wood to completed wheels).


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The completed wheels including the tenders as well


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Now I can move forward again. Picture below is all the parts I have so far


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Looking good.

Forgot to take some construction photos of the cabin roof but here it is all glued in position with the roof excess panel as well as the handrails.


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I also managed to make a jig so that I could drill the off-centre holes in the large wheels. I wanted to make sure these are all the correct distance away from the axle holes. I then drilled these slightly undersize as I will need to get the exact measurement of the dowel I will be using

Derek,

I missed this thread earlier. I built this one about two years back, looking forward to seeing yours finished.

Jim

The panel in the roof is a vent. The cab has a heater that tends to be on all the time . At Puffing Billy the roof vents tend to be always open and perhaps closed if it is pouring with rain.

The holes for the dowels (or the dowels in the big driving wheels) are called crank pins. When you set the wheels on the axles the cranks should be offset by 90 degrees (just make sure you do both axles the same.) Toy engines very often have the cranks offset by 180 degrees.

Coming along quiet nicely.

Started on the tender by making the bogies and glueing together




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Spent the day cutting out the tender panels to discover someone did not measure twice on the width of the larger ones so went and cut some more wood and put through the planer to discover I had a piece of the correct thickness which only needed to be cut to the correct width this time.


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Got the panels all glued up and just sat this on the boggies but not glued to them

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Now I can see the overall size now I have got to this stage


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I drilled the wheels centre hole to the correct size but managed to mess up two of the tender wheels so remade these as well as cut all the axles to the correct length. I did do a quick dry fit of all the wheels but forgot to take a photo.

Anyway back to the tender bogies cut out the four side plates for the wheels as well as the centre support for them in the pictures I did another dry fit as I need to sort out the pins to fit in the centre hole as well as the heads which represent the axle blocks. I am waiting for some more ER32 collets to do these as always never seem to have the correct size when you need them




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All this I have done over about three days

Top stuff Derek

Regards

Keith

It's going to be one sweet train for sure!!!

I love building the tenders as they are so simple but really add to the train's presence.

Thank you Keith and Bruce.

Yes, the tender brings about the real coming together of the loco and also give a better idea of size. I did have to modify the coupling between the engine and tender as it would not fit together by the coupling pin.

Working on the tender wheel at the moment now that new toys have arrived I have a collet chuck that fits the woodturning lathe and the added collets are ideal for holding small round pieces to make some of the pins that are needed. I thought I would buy the hex and square blocks to make things like the bolts on some models.


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All the pins made and now assembled on the bogies of the tender.

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Then onto a finish for both the bogies and the tender body.


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The milk churns made and finished and the bogies glued on so now the tender is now complete. I also did the railroad nameplates on the side but left them blank
Now to complete the loco it's self. You can see in the last photo where I tapered the connection coupling to the loco to allow it to be fitted separately as this hit the rear bogie on the loco

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