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Can anyone please point me in the direction of the correct dimensions for the hole in first stage rivet setting tooling as opposed to the domed snap tool for finishing rivets; and the amount of rivet projection required for tidy doming ..

I am having great trouble getting decent finished domes and I think its beacuse I am

A not getting the correct amount of material projecting and

B not using suitable setting tools.

Many thanks

Brian K.

Hi Clive I had a similar problem with the cone joint on a used regulator, caused by rough handling creating a flat on the brass cone. I suggest that your damage on a new item is posibly the result of it being dropped or more likely something being dropped on it. This could have occured in transit but as the supplier knew they were shipping overseas they should have ensured the pacakaging was suitably robust. If the packaging was undamaged on reciept then it reasonable to assume the item was faulty on dispatch. Either way, assuming the supplier arranged the shipping then they are duty bound to replace the item FOC including shipping, and provide you with a means of returning the old item at their cost; presuming that your contract of sale was made under UK law. If however you got someone to buy it for you in the UK and they subsequently posted for you, it then you would bear much more of the liability. I agree with DMB send a polite e.mail pointing out the defect and the inconvenience and suggesting they provide you with a replacement within a reasonable period of time (perhaps 30 days) or providing you with the reasons why they are not prepared to do so. CC the e.mail into customer service at Sievert and see what response you get.

Brian

Thanks Mike & Springbok. I am in regular contact with our club boiler inspector and he is inspecting progress as I go along. My personal preference is to read up on all the info I can before setting out and this documentation seemed to be probably the most relevant yet not readily available. I have seen the Australian codes and gleaned a lot from them. The present project is a small 2/12 LBSC design but I also have a stationary boiler and eventually a largeish ( Saint) 3 1/2 to do . I will hopefully do them in progression improving my skills as I go along. Hence the reason for wanting to read up on the UK Code of Practice.

Kind regards

Brian K

I have seen a number of references to the above CoP but a search on the net has failed to come up with any documentation. Does any one have a copy or can tell me where i can obtain a copy please as I would like to fully understand it before I start on my proposed new boiler.

Many thanks

Brian

Thank you both for the very helpful info & links. The photos are especially helpful. I willhave to pay a visit to Bressingham but its a long old drag from North Wales!!

Kind regards

Brian K

Hi. Can anyone please point me in the direction of the correct colour scheme for such chassis parts as frames,inside frames, buffer beams, axles. running boards splashers etc for the above model. Also a current approximation of the GER blue forthe main details.

Many thanks

Brian ,

I must live near Clive as WHS told me again today that they have not yet received it and don't expect any more deliveries this week. Ho Hum.

Can I preface my comments by saying that I am a subscriber, have been for many years and am satisfied with both the magazine and the delivery I get.

However David, having spent 20 years in the contract printing and magazine distribution industry, it is you as the publishers who are the customer of the printer and distributor, they should play to your tune. Also I suggest that you in turn do have a responsibility to your customers especially subscriibers . Especially with the contract print industry as it is today you have a powerful hand.

I suspect that the printers are getting the bulk supplies out of their factory warehouse system to the Wholesalers & Newsagents to create working space for themselves; and the subscription copies are sent off to a mailing house where they wait their turn with all the other magazines to get enveloped and posted. Meanwhile the ordinary copies are already with the wholesalers & newsagents, who naturally put them on sale as soon as they recieve them irrespective of publication release date.

Given that subscriptions are mainly there not to benefit the reader, but to give the publisher a secured source of revenue they can base their budgets & forecasts on; then with all due respect you do have a responsibility to get the subscriber copies out early. It is a simple matter to write into the Printers contract that they do not distibute wholesale copies untill after the mailing house has confirmed that all subscription copies have been sent out, with suitable substantive penalties for them if they do not.

They won't like it of course but in the present economic climate use the significant business clout that you have to benefit your readers and maintain subscription copy numbers and revenue that you will undoubtdly loose in a steady flow if people can get it in the newasgents earlier. You will only retain subscribers who do not have easy access to well stocked local Newsagents, most notably rural areas This will take a long time to show in the finances due to the annual nature of subscriptions but you will see a steady long term decline until the newstand sales mean the forward budgeting brcomes unreliable and we end up loosing our valuable magazies due to lack of sales.

With the big stable of specialist titles you are a significant customer and you and especially your subscribers have every right to be treated as such.

Kind regards and thanks for a very enjoyable magazine.

Good evening all, Some help please. I want to bore two crankwebs for a single throw crank. The webs are approx 2"long by 1" wide x 3/8 thick bright bar.

Two holes in each so the crank and pin can be inserted and silversoldered and the piece of the main crankshaft then cut away. I have tried to drill these singly,as a pair,in the drill press and bored against the 4 jaw chuck but all results have come out with the holes slightly off right angles to the face of the webs at various angles. error doesn't seem to be consistent. Anybody got an easy trick or solution to get all the bores aligned and square to the web face please.

Many thanks

B.K.

I attended on Friday which was quite quiet but I felt the range and number of club stands and the models displayed was good. I agree the trade stands were scarce but if attendance figures were good then that may persuade others to consider it next year. Going back to the origin of the thread then if we are to encourage youngsters and bring familiesin, the show needs to embrace the plastic modellers etc. I found the model trucks & the RC air craft display fascinating although not my cup of tea, and kids are far more likely to respond to these than the static display of a beautifully worked and intricate loco chassis that some of us will inspect and marvel at, wondering how on earth people find the time and skill to achieve such perfection and prodigious output!