Member postings for Chris Barry

Hi,

This is Going to be my thread about the building of my Rob Roy, I'll try and keep it up to date as things progress, im known to have 101 projects on the go but my aim is to get the Rob Roy to a rolling chassis with this year, hopefully running on air.

I Was given the frames and wheel castings at the end of my apprenticeship 6 years ago and I've been talking about getting on with it since then.

Progress to date has been me cleaning up the frames, they had got rusty in the years my ex colleauge had stored them, get the horn guides, buffer beam and axlebox material.

I've been cleaning up the horn guides by filing as the book says but i've decided today to actually do it with the milling attachment on my lathe as to make sure they are deffinetly square and as accurate as possible.

here is my Photo bucket album where i'll upload pictures of progress to,

http://s1328.photobucket.com/user/chrisb_589/library/Rob%20Roy

you can see a picture of the frames and horn guides, two filled and one as came.

Hope People enjoy and don't mind giving hints and tips, will get my mill set up this week and hopefully start cutting material.

Cheers

Chris

Allan,

I'll get the current bit on the horn guides done and will start the thread

Looks really close to running now, I look forward to the video

Cheers

Chris

Allan,

loving the thread, I've started a Rob Roy but some of the techniques you've asked and shown has answered lots of questions for me, may I say thank you for that

looks smashing, can't wait to see it finished, keep it coming

many thanks

Chris