The Diary of the Building of a Driving Trolley |
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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
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Construction
Day 6
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Decided to buy the necessary 6mm 8mm and 10mm taps and a 10mm die so that the construction can proceed. I have used my Ebay supplier who has been very good in the past but whether they will be here for the weekend I do not know. So at 01:58 it is time to go to bed. The trip to Staplehurst to Maidstone Engineering / Maxitrak to buy more material for the truck construction was successful. It was a nice break at Mote Park and the general maintenance of the rail track has now reached the half way stage.
So what did I achieve in the afternoon / early evening.
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All the axles have now been prepared except for final check in the over all length which is critical as it is used to space the side frame !! |
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The blanks which will be used on the spacer bar to mount the wheels |
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The spacer bar is 20mm OD so I have used a 19mm drill and then the spacers can be machined down by 1mm in diameter to ensure correct overall spacing of the wheels. |
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All the spacer mounting blanks now drilled. |
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These are the eight spacer tubes. Don't worry about the slight rust it will all be cleared off before the items are painted !!! |
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In this photo the spacer tube have
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Machined to a dead length of 135mm The spacer tube was reduced down on each end to a nice interference fit to the spacer wheel support and all 8 are now needing to be drilled with 3 holes to attach the wheels and then the wheel support needs to be tack welded in three places onto the tube. |
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Day finished at 22:00 hrs |
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If you have any comments / questions about the project then please email me ...
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