2 Inch Ransomes

We've made a fair bit of progress and need to show it somewhere.

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.

The rear suspension and gear selector.

The bolts were far too long to turn so a few seconds with the TIG welder.

Fitting parts to the horn plates and the front axle done.

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.

Lot of work in those parts, they all look good.

Emgee

Looks fabulous

Brilliant. Keep it up.

Steve.

Very fine workmanship. Always good to see progress of projects here . Is this a collective effort?, as you say 'We' .

Looking great Robin! well done.

That's looking really good Robin, Please keep us up to date on progress.

Brian

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

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.

Nice work

H

A bit more progress.

Beautiful work! Thank you for sharing it with us.

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.

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

So many rivets. So many rivets.