Robin Dufton | 26/03/2021 11:50:52 |
38 forum posts 10 photos | We've made a fair bit of progress and need to show it somewhere. |
Robin Dufton | 26/03/2021 11:54:37 |
38 forum posts 10 photos | After the steam chests we moved on to the cross head guides. Blackgates don't have a casting for the spindle guide so we machined them from a piece of 2 square bar, although they still need finishing. |
Robin Dufton | 26/03/2021 12:00:28 |
38 forum posts 10 photos | The rear suspension and gear selector. The bolts were far too long to turn so a few seconds with the TIG welder.
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Robin Dufton | 26/03/2021 12:03:18 |
38 forum posts 10 photos | Fitting parts to the horn plates and the front axle done. |
Robin Dufton | 26/03/2021 12:06:47 |
38 forum posts 10 photos | Water pump piston and rod. The pin is just a place holder to test fit it as it'll be a shouldered bolt. So the next stage is ordering the steel for the boiler. An inspector is satisifed with the design and drawings so we can get on with fabricating it. |
Emgee | 26/03/2021 12:57:34 |
2610 forum posts 312 photos | Lot of work in those parts, they all look good. Emgee |
Ady1 | 26/03/2021 13:06:34 |
![]() 6137 forum posts 893 photos | Looks fabulous |
Steviegtr | 26/03/2021 13:12:19 |
![]() 2668 forum posts 352 photos | Brilliant. Keep it up. Steve. |
Richard S2 | 26/03/2021 16:19:23 |
![]() 237 forum posts 135 photos | Very fine workmanship. Always good to see progress of projects here . Is this a collective effort?, as you say 'We' .
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Jeff Dayman | 26/03/2021 17:12:16 |
2356 forum posts 47 photos | Looking great Robin! well done. |
Brian H | 26/03/2021 18:29:16 |
![]() 2312 forum posts 112 photos | That's looking really good Robin, Please keep us up to date on progress. Brian |
old Al | 26/03/2021 20:31:13 |
187 forum posts | I started one of these years ago (project number 1), still fancy completing it. lovely looking tractor. Keep up the good work and keep those photos coming. I might even slip a few ransom bits into my work schedule
Alan |
Robin Dufton | 27/03/2021 16:18:21 |
38 forum posts 10 photos | Thank you for the kind words. It's both me and my father working on it so progress is a little quicker, this is about 6 weeks of work off and on. This is today's progress. The eccentrics were machined to a close fit, just a little tight as they turned, and then lapped as a set. Afterwards we swaped bits from different sets to see how close they were and they all worked together. |
Harry Wilkes | 27/03/2021 17:10:24 |
![]() 1613 forum posts 72 photos | Nice work H |
Robin Dufton | 21/04/2021 14:32:30 |
38 forum posts 10 photos | |
Robin Dufton | 24/04/2021 20:23:55 |
38 forum posts 10 photos | A bit more progress. |
Nigel Graham 2 | 24/04/2021 21:12:31 |
3293 forum posts 112 photos | Beautiful work! Thank you for sharing it with us. |
Robin Dufton | 24/04/2021 21:31:30 |
38 forum posts 10 photos | We're glad people are interested as it seems to be a model that isn't common. It has been more work on the drawing side as there are some parts of the drawings we've just had to pick apart and redesign it from scratch, like the water pump arrangement, or just updating it like with the metric gears. We build these kind of things below and with what has happened over the past year we needed to look at trying something new, so after building and selling some Stuart engines we scaled up. |
Robin Dufton | 12/05/2021 16:33:53 |
38 forum posts 10 photos | We got started on the smoke box. I should have taken some pictures of the flat plates before rolling. Edited By Robin Dufton on 12/05/2021 16:47:18 |
Robin Dufton | 23/05/2021 21:00:41 |
38 forum posts 10 photos | So many rivets. So many rivets. |
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