< Detail Work 3 >
Front deck steps were made from iron angle,
brass angle and mesh patterned brass sheet.
Those were assembled with copper rivets and
silver soldered.
Coupling pin lifter was made from stainless
steel wire.
The lifer is hold in four brackets. They
were made from steel plates, cut, annealed
and twisted between two vises.
The coupler and the lifter are connected
like the photo. The U-shape part was made
from brass wire. It was bended, hammered,
drilled and threaded.
Front deck handle was made from steel round
bar. The left hand photo shows index cutting
of the hexagonal part with a fat hexagonal
brass bar. Tip of the handle is a brass ball.
It was drilled and glued onto the bar (Loctite
648).
All of front detailed parts were painted,
stoved and assembled. Incidentally, there
are no such detailed parts at the rear end.
I added dummy radiator tube of the compressed
air. No doubt copper tube is suitable material
for the radiator tube. But I made it from
a fat steel bar because copper tubes were
out of stock! It was bended in a jig.
The tube brackets were made from brass band
sheet. The photo shows how to bend 'wave'
profile. The band was pulled and rounded
along the pins with a plier. The pins were
added one by one.
The brackets have small holes for rivets.
Note a brass rectangle bar on the jig, as
a guide of drilling.
Assembled radiator tube.
View from underneath of the running board.
The tube and whistle were connected with
elbows which I introduced last month.
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