< Detail Work 5 >
The current whistle was blowing too gentle.
So I changed taper angle of the whistle valve
from 3deg to 5deg. Left hand in the photo
is the new one.
I added curved troughs on both sides of the
roof. They are made from 3mm brass squares
and fixed with brass rivets. The removable
center roof is fixed on the roof with two
screws.
The body was also painted with heat-resistant
paint. It was stoved like the photo. It spent
one week to complete the stoving.
A dummy whistle was made from brass parts.
It was screwed on a side of the steam dome
cover. The whistle design obeys Kozo's "New
Shay".
The air compressor exhaust pipe was led beside
the chimney. The pipe was made from 3mm steel
wire, drilled at the top and threaded at
the bottom. The support was made from a hand
rail stanchion. It was screwed into the chimney
in advance. Then, through the pipe, the chimney
was mounted on the smokebox.
As the photo shows, the air compressor steam
pipe was lagged by a handcraft flat string
with epoxy adhesive. The pipe itself was
made from a steel wire. The governor had
been painted and glued on the wire, in advance.
Operating lever was added to the sand box.
It was connected to the draw bar's forked
end. The draw bar is stainless steel wire.
There are so many parts around the front
buffer beam, that I can't hold the buffer
beam by hand. Therefore I made 'carrying
handle' from steel bars and plastic tape.
The loco was almost completed except etched
plates and lettering.....
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