My expierience with big locos

[Schraddel]

More corrections on the "snake's nest", to which the complex plumbing has developed meanwhile. The smokebox front must be removeable, so you have carefully plan how to mount the plumbings and tubes.
Lifting brackets were made and mounted onto the superheater hatch behind the stack.
The railing around the sandbox was complemented to meet a more prototypical appereance.





The "ears" on the feedwater heater are handles. In this case they were fixed just by mounting them, so no other fixtures like soldering or glueing was necessary.










The excess solder was removed by filing and grinding with an silikone polishing disk fixed in my micro drill. After cleaning the site from superfluous flux, abrasive dust and accumulated dirt it looks alike.
The whistle actual has to be standing upright. But after i rightened it three times and it just leans accidentally again to the stack, i decided to leave it just so as it is. In this lean to stage the whistle is much more out of danger for breaking off.





The long rope pull for the whistle was mounted in this way.

Cheers Lutz