MWaz Get off your duff challenge

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It's been along while since I've posted or done anything with this build. Life sometimes throws you a curve ball and it takes some time to recover. I've been wanting to get back to this build for a while especially since its gone over 10,000 views and there's other projects I want to get on with. I hope its been helpful for others who play around with these old Bowser kits.

So, pulling the build back down off the shelf I noticed that something had happened to the base of the tender.





I had made a mold of the original Bowser tender floor years ago to work as an insulator to protect the decoder. It was functional. I am not certain how it got into this condition   . But I'm choosing to go a different route now. And so, we will pick up the build from here and move forward.

I choose to go back to the original tender floor, grinding off the little nubs (the one I'll be using is on the right).



I traced the tender floor out on some .010 flat styrene to make an insulator and glued it in place with some Weldbond.







After it dried, I drilled holes out for the pick up wires to pass through. Also, the holes in each corner, where I'll use plastic screws to attach floor to tender.



I have also chosen to use Bachmann Kiesel trucks for this rebuild. Which I mentioned earlier in this build. I'll add Intermountain 36" wheel sets to these Kiesel trucks.  



Using these trucks I had to come up with a new way to attached them to the tender floor. The original Bowser screws would not work. I used some stock styrene tubing (not sure what diameter these are).



and made these:





I also had to drill out the center hole a little bit to allow clearance for the new post and screw. And with using the Bachmann trucks, meant coming up with yet another way to do the tender pick ups. I drilled the trucks for 00-90 screws and wrapped a piece of .015 phosphorus bronze rod around the screw before tightening down. I need to to still pick up some 00-90 washers so I can solder the pick up wire to them. Hope to get them today, if LHS has them in stock. But here's what they look like for now.





I will post try to post update soon.



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