6 coupled diesel
- dewintondave
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Re: 6 coupled diesel
What a lovely looking loco. And powerful too. I wish I had your metalworking skills! Good job, well done.
Hope you don't mind me asking, how did you achieve the rivet detail? Also, what method do you use for bending the brass for the bodywork? Thanks!
Hope you don't mind me asking, how did you achieve the rivet detail? Also, what method do you use for bending the brass for the bodywork? Thanks!
Re: 6 coupled diesel
Cheers for the positive comments, am pretty chuffed with this one.
At work at the moment and don’t have a photo of the tool, but that’s a piece of the bodywork before bending
Rivers on the bodywork were done with a little tool I made up for my pillar drill, it’s essentially a rivet shaped dome on the end of a bit of round steel which fits in the drill chuck and a corresponding hole in a piece of Ali that clamps to the table, brass goes between the two and you stamp them one at a time. Bend were done on a borrowed sheet metal folder, it’s about 2ft long and designed for steel up to 3mm so the thin brass didn’t phase it much!
At work at the moment and don’t have a photo of the tool, but that’s a piece of the bodywork before bending
Re: 6 coupled diesel
Cheers!
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