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One inch copper via ebay meets lathe and the Turnado.
The workshop crew have a yarn while the foredog contemplates the next operation.
A wee polish.
"Come and see" Often echoes down the corridors of the works.
With 0.005mm interference fit on it goes.
A reminder, the profile is freelance, inspired by the GWR.
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A superb piece of turning work, you should be very pleased with yourself Dazza.
One thing puzzles me, what is the purpose (if any) of the O ring on the parent stock?
pandsrowe wrote: ↑Mon Dec 02, 2019 8:31 am
A superb piece of turning work, you should be very pleased with yourself Dazza.
One thing puzzles me, what is the purpose (if any) of the O ring on the parent stock?
Thanks and I was wondering if some one would notice and ask.
It works like a little dam wall , it stops the coolant flowing towards the chuck and then being flung off. Keeps me and the surrounds a wee bit more "coolant free"
I lay claim that I conceived the idea all on my own.
The Turnado tool is used dry
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"I say Gromit, this all looks straight forward, the same process as the drivers. Get Feathers and Preston to rough the blanks out. "
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"These look OK, Shaun, take them to the Myford and finish off the backs and ream please."
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tom_tom_go wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2020 8:40 pm
Are these wheels for the loco or tender?
These are the tender wheels. The Loco has is drivers, it all goes around on air, boiler in the frames etc, but the trialing pony wheel set is yet to be done.
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Same mandrel as used for the driver wheels. Clocked in the P & B floating 3 jaw to .005mm and then whurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Remove the feather of a burr
The Llewellyn Loco Works management are pleased with Sunday's out put from theRed Room workshop.
Last edited by Hydrostatic Dazza on Sun Feb 23, 2020 8:57 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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He is a top bloke, I have been very happy with the units I have purchased from him.
Yes, Terry has been very helpful, I have his supplied ball races for the axles.The Slomo will be in the tender, because I know more now than I did back then and it was too late to fit in the frames and be done with the water pump which is not needed for the wet leg coal fired boiler, but it is going to be there for a trickle feed for extended runs. The tender wheels are just over the recommended minimum diameter and I have RC car ball in bronze steering pivots for use as the draw bar between loco and tender for full movement with Zero back lash/play so hope fully no jerky jerky. The draw bar length will be adjustable to suit the track curvature. The POR curves are tighter than I would have liked but at other railways I can couple up closer for better appearance. Well that is the plan..............
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tom_tom_go wrote: ↑Sun Feb 23, 2020 9:15 pm
The draw bar will make a difference as shown in my early experimentations with inerita devices (before SSP Slomo was a commercial product):
Super. Ballast wagon.
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I like the idea of the "slomo" in the tender. While I greatly appreciate the contribution it's made to the realistic motion of small steam locomotives, I find that one thing I do not like is how difficult it is to hide the unit between the frames of a little 0-4-0. On a six-coupled locomotive like Lady Anne there is a good hiding-spot between the centre and back axle; it's not as visible. But on an 0-4-0, where one would expect to see quite a bit of open space 'tween the frames and axles on a "real" locomotive, there's a big clump of gears and chains. Putting one in the tender I think is a great idea.
Keith S wrote: ↑Wed Feb 26, 2020 11:15 pm
I like the idea of the "slomo" in the tender. While I greatly appreciate the contribution it's made to the realistic motion of small steam locomotives, I find that one thing I do not like is how difficult it is to hide the unit between the frames of a little 0-4-0. On a six-coupled locomotive like Lady Anne there is a good hiding-spot between the centre and back axle; it's not as visible. But on an 0-4-0, where one would expect to see quite a bit of open space 'tween the frames and axles on a "real" locomotive, there's a big clump of gears and chains. Putting one in the tender I think is a great idea.
Yes, the bulk of the Slomech is obvious, but to my eyes far less offensive compared to seeing garden railway locos doing their best impression of 4468 going down Stoke Bank in 1938. I discovered the Slomo mech after I had started on this loco build, so a tender was added to fit it. Also I sourced a method for Zero back lash for the drawbar. More on this later. However with the tender Slomo there is still sprockets and chains between wheels and the two axles.
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So far nothing has surfaced that fits the need of the Llewellyn Loco works No1 tender. So senior management have been working on the drawing for an investment casting for the dummy tender axle box and spring. These are being cast by Mike at Stannier Engineering in NZ. The drawing is created via 3D CAD then an STL file is emailed and he 3D prints the wax and has them cast (white bronze) and will ship to Australia in the near future.
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Senior draftsman at the Llewellyn Loco works has also worked on the drawings for the Pony truck. It will have bronze split bearings so a 45mm axle set can be quickly installed via 10 BA bolts. The workshop team will tonight make a start on the frame stretcher that the truck pivot bolts to and the grate removal pin.
An example of the 2D workshop floor drawing.
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The dummy axle box and spring look great and I sure the tender will match the quality of the loco (the basic looking Roundhouse tenders would not match).
It is a shame the 0-6-0 Slomo was not available when you started building the loco as it does not use a chain drive and the Slomo itself has transformed the running of all the locos I have fitted with these devices.
Try doing this with a live steamer without a Slomo and at a realistic speed without the loco falling off the table:
I discovered the Slomo mech after I had started on this loco build, so a tender was added to fit it. Also I sourced a method for Zero back lash for the drawbar. More on this later. However with the tender Slomo there is still sprockets and chains between wheels and the two axles. 
