The Diary of the Building of a Driving Trolley


Driving Trolley build Truck 1 Truck 2 Truck 3 Truck 4 Truck 5

Truck 6 Truck 7 Truck 8 Truck 9 Truck 10 Truck 11 Truck 12

Truck 13 Truck 14/15 Truck 16 Truck 17 Truck 18 Truck 19 Truck 20 Truck 20/21

Truck 22 Truck 23 Truck 24/25 Truck 26 / 27 / 28 / 29 Truck 30 / 31 Truck 32 Light flasher

Baudot rebuild Index page


Construction Day 23

Mid morning start afternoon finish


The buffer stocks were threaded 1/2" 26TPI and the nuts made.

Here is the buffer showing the components parts
The full set of buffers. It was found that the spring retainer had been made 5mm too long so the excess thread was cut off. It was only made too long for at first it was thought that a long throw of the buffer was fine but on reflection not so !!
The completed buffer in place for the first time
The assembled truck lees breaking system and leg supports
The buffer beam - buffers and hook.
The buffer now all painted black
The hooks with their first coat of paint .. May be the hook will need rounding off on the leading edge.


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