Saturday 10th August 2013 - Tyseley Locomotive Works

 

 

 

Ashpan

 

 

 

The heavily worn damper crank spindle, which had been welded to the mainframe, required replacement

 

 

The replacement spindle with the re-bushed crank levers for operating the linkage to the damper doors is ready to fit to the locomotive

 

                                                Cladding and Boiler Fittings

 

Rubbing down of the cylinder cladding, handrails and cab pipework continues so that as much as possible is ready for the return of the boiler

 

                The cylinder cover cladding is rubbed down in readiness for a further coat of paint


                                                            The Chassis

 

Is there anybody down there - Mark, not in the most comfortable of positions, sorts out the copper pipe runs for the vacuum brake system

 

 

Bob commences the all important task of fitting split pins to those parts of the motion that are now fully assembled. The return spring on the weigh-bar shaft has also been adjusted and a split pin fitted

 

 

 

Kenneth, doing a good impression of a Russian cosmonaut, wire brushes the rust off the new smoke box barrel.

 

 

Mike, deep in thought, pauses from his labour of applying a coat of heat resistant paint to the smoke box barrel.

 

 

Mike puts his early training as a gynaecologist to good use.

 

The finished article

 

Brake Gear

 

 

The brake gear is laid out to assess what further work is required to complete it.

 

 

Life would be so much simpler if steam engines had disc brakes (preferably with ABS)

 

 

 

 

If I do a castling with my queenside rook, I reckon that it will be checkmate! The business end of the brake gear where the front cross beam compensating links attach to the brake adjuster screws and finally to the brake cylinder shaft is temporarily assembled.