darjeeling locomotive

[DustyParticipant @dusty]

Peter

        As I see it, the tank mounting brackets are on the inside of the frames and the cylinder mounting plates on the outside. How do they foul? I have not started my build yet but have a full set of drawings plus the works drawings available.

[Donald MitchellParticipant @donaldmitchell68891]

Peter & Dusty,

 

I have checked with Raymond on the phone this morning and he confirms that both the tank brackets, and obviously the cylinder mounting plates are on the outside of the frames.

 

He acknowledges that they are very close, but if accurately made to the published dimensions it will all fit.

 

Good luck, keep at it.

 

Donald Mitchell
Castle Douglas
Bonnie Scotland

[peter ravenscroftParticipant @peterravenscroft57700]

many thanks donald i’ll have another go tomorrow and i’ll let you know how i get on

 

hi dusty i’m building it with the model engineer issues to see if there are any mistakes had a couple of problems but nothing to drastic

 

regards

peter

[DustyParticipant @dusty]

Peter

        I have started writing my lines ‘I must read drawings properly before pontificating’ I think 50 should be enough. In fact I should have looked at the drawings, having done so I can see that the brackets are indeed on the outside. I opted to purchase a set of drawings. Having built a loco from drawings published in a magazine I know that errors can occur in the magazine that are not in the drawings. It is almost impossible to check your own work when transposing from one drawing to another. I will start building later this year when all of you who have started, should have ironed out any problems.

[peter ravenscroftParticipant @peterravenscroft57700]

hi dusty

      i’m gulity of doing that see one of my posts i read the magazine on the way home and did’nt read the mesurment corectly there are a number of errors in the model engineer and some measurements missing but on the whole it builds as he said in his series

i did start a 5″ version many years a go and still have my drawings so i have some knowlage of the loco

regards

peter

[peter ravenscroftParticipant @peterravenscroft57700]

has any one read the latest instalment of the darjeeling loco in the current issue of model engineer (4379) if so can you please tell me the radius of the expansion link as i think the dimentions are missing or is it me misreading the drawing

regards

peter

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Does seem to be missing.

 

J

[Nicholas FarrParticipant @nicholasfarr14254]

Hi, you might even think the latest issue is 4397, but no I can’t see it.

 

Regards Nick.

[Donald MitchellParticipant @donaldmitchell68891]

Hi Engineers,

 

I have just checked with Raymond and the radius of the expansion link slot is 5 11/16 Raymond has checked his master drawings (as supplied to ME) and the dimension is correctly shown on them.

 

Donald Mitchell
Castle Douglas
Bonnie Scotland

[peter ravenscroftParticipant @peterravenscroft57700]

thanks donald

id worked it out to be 4-3/8 by blowing the drawing up to the correct size so it’s nice to know the right dimension thge issue is 4397 by the way typing error

regards

peter

[Keith RogersParticipant @keithrogers40220]

Am I the only person building the Darjeeling loco. So far I have made the boiler & had it tested, got the chassis running on air & am well on with the cab platework. At the moment I am waiting for some 1/4" 'D' section to arrive also material to clad the boiler.

I have not had too much trouble building building the loco but a few assembly drawings would have helped, at times its like a jigsaw puzzle wondering what goes where.

Keith Rogers. Warrington

[peter ravenscroftParticipant @peterravenscroft57700]

hi kieth

to my knowledge there are about 6 being built as to the fact that anyone has one running i do not know I'm still struggling as what to do about the boiler blackgates don't seem to have produced a kit yet

so haven't done any work on mine for months

regards

peter

ps

i think we met last year at your club track

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