Kevin,
Thanks - what a great link. Maybe further along with my working at the Bellarine Railway I will be able to be much more knowledgable on railway terminology. Thanks again
Keith
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The Bogie is coming along great Keith you certainly have done quite a bit since I last looked Wednesday evening could not see what you had done until I got back from the middle of a field.
At another steam rally with our craft stall, the wife does mainly hand knitting with a few others bits to help fill the stall and I have a little corner to sell some of my (mainly) woodturning The marquee is ours and is 20ft X 10ft
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There's some mighty fine craft from both of you there, excellent
Thanks for your response Derek. As Ray said - beautiful work - a credit to you both - Well Done :2tsup:
Regards
Keith
No train guys just full size and working model traction engines as well as old tractors, cars, fire engines, old stationary engines, agricultural machinery and many more things besides. OH yes but don't tell Trev shhhhh some old motorbikes.
Say what "Old Bikes!".
Photos, info, details come on.
As for trying to keep secrets, Well It's Just Not British!. :~
Cheers
Trev.
Hi All,
I have been working on the hornplates on the bogie. The original had a cast rim around them, so I tried to copy that. In my previous post I drew up and cut out the basic horn plate. To add the rim, I reduced my drawing by 14% in size and then printed that out - it gives me a 3mm rim to play around with. I glued the drawing onto 3mm MDF and the cut out the centre with the scroll saw. I then glued the outer section to the main hornplate body and let it dry for 24 hours. Then I cut the 3mm MDF back to the main body - then filed and sanded (the 3mm MDF is only red because it is an old piece of offcut that I had laying around and painted it red for another job).
I then sanded the rim down to 1.5mm using 80 and then 120 grit paper. Then rounded the edges using 120 grit.
Quite happy with how it looks on the bogie (just sitting there) There is another side of the hornplate and when complete will be the support for the top spring plate. Have added the photo of the beer can to show the size.
Am now working on the other bogie as well so I can get them both looking exactly the same.
Below are the photos of how I made the rim on the hornplate.
Regards
Keith
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Looks authentic.
Its almost the end of the week, you deserve a drink.
Just as well you are only doing one vehicle, and not half a dozen.