Wichendon Machine Shop (restart)

[PRR Modeler]

I agree with Jerry Dave. Are you going to blacken the shafts?

[deemery]

I agree with Jerry Dave. Are you going to blacken the shafts?

I got some steel wire for shafts (arrived late today.)  The mock-ups use some different stuff.  Looking at videos of machine shops, the shafts tend to be lightly weathered steel.   So in short, I probably won't weather/paint/color the steel wire shafts.     From an Iron_Jonsey video:


Since I need to do 12 paddles, I'll think about a jig to cut them to the same size and drill the hole.

dave

[nycjeff]

Hello Dave, it's coming along really nicely and I'm learning quite a bit about steam powered shops. Good job Sir

[deemery]

Hello Dave, it's coming along really nicely and I'm learning quite a bit about steam powered shops. Good job Sir

Yeah, I find this kind of "in depth research into something I knew nothing about" to be my favorite part of the hobby.

dave

[deemery]

I got the main line shaft hangers installed (I did it so the shaft is removable.)  I used thick CA and accelerator.  These will take a bit of stress particularly when I go to install the belts, so I wanted a tight bond. 

The paints I wanted for the pulleys arrived, so I painted them, too.  This is the "Green Stuff World" Steel & Silver metallic set.  Frankly, I was disappointed with those paints, there was a lot of gunk in the bottle even after 2 full 2-minute sessions on the Vortex mixer.  It did spray OK.  The color I wanted has a "tin" sense to it, which is close to the pulley color on the Iron_Joney video pulleys.  Tomorrow, I'll probably test out those pulleys on the main shaft.  Gluing the pulleys into position will have to wait until I get the auxiliary shafts constructed and installed. 

dave