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Latch done yesterday after cleaning house upstairs. The fugly screw will be replaced with a 12BA rivet screw, when I find where I put them.

Shaun, get the lads to cut some corners off this plate and bring it down to the 21mm.





To the mill/drill for the hinge strap holes for this tender tank lid.

Tender water filler lid drilled



Making the lid hinge straps

Tender filling lid, straps yet to be shaped.

File file file, sand sand file sand , one down, one more to go and to the tender water lid they go with solder.

The lid went well, but the next piece, %#@!!*^$##)***! 4 hours of Sunday's went down the S bend.

"Lads, load the 3/32 brass parting tool."

No Feathers, it is not a toilet seat for the loco.

A wee bit of sawing here and there and a file here and there and the tender tank is getting very close to braze and soldering up.

It has it's moments, however it is now ready to soft solder to the tender tank top.

Getting closer to soldering up the tender tank.

"This soft soldering caper is strange compared to silver brazing eh Shaun."

Soft soldering = steep learning curve at the Llewellyn Loco Works.

That looks absolutely brilliant Dazza. Very clean and neat I think. Well done....

Some lovely work there! Soft soldering a bit different to brazing steel with brass isn’t it!

Garethh wrote: ↑Mon Nov 23, 2020 1:38 pm Some lovely work there! Soft soldering a bit different to brazing steel with brass isn’t it!

I still silver braze some brass bits with silver. I silver braze my frame tubes with 56% Harris silver. Brass is only used now on the cutout piece in my chainstay bridges, but I do brass brass frames for years before switching to Silver 20 years ago. Just getting one's head around the fact that the material gets barely warm and the soft solder runs after all the years of brazing. It feels like one is cheating when using soft solder.

Hydrostatic Dazza wrote: ↑Mon Nov 23, 2020 7:52 pm

Garethh wrote: ↑Mon Nov 23, 2020 1:38 pm Some lovely work there! Soft soldering a bit different to brazing steel with brass isn’t it!

I still silver braze some brass bits with silver. I silver braze my frame tubes with 56% Harris silver. Brass is only used now on the cutout piece in my chainstay bridges, but I do brass brass frames for years before switching to Silver 20 years ago. Just getting one's head around the fact that the material gets barely warm and the soft solder runs after all the years of brazing. It feels like one is cheating when using soft solder.

I’ve only ever used silver on frames for stainless bits and pieces, I can definitely see how it’d work better when doing a lot of lug work though. I found I was hopeless trying to use a soldering iron to soft solder, a small butane torch seemed much more natural!

Some more soldering last night at the Llewellyn Loco works. More fittings and coal rails and a wee bit of clean up to come. The loco will steam in the third decade of the 21st century, if I keep my fingers crossed.

The Llewellyn Locomotive works shop crew are doing their best to make progress on the Tender.
Stainless tender hand rail from a 2.00mm Swiss DT bicycle spoke. The Llewellyn Locomotive works shop crew are doing their best to make progress on the Tender.
Stainless tender hand rail from a 2.00mm Swiss DT bicycle spoke. Might finish breaking edges and soldering today before this evenings run at the Potters Orchid Railway.

At the Llewellyn Locomotive Works, Captain Plod did a wee bit of finishing work on the hand rails, soldering and fitted a water tap under the shoveling plate, Queensland Railways influences are showing.