01-30-2017, 08:18 PM
Now the smoke box has a few courses of rivets.
After a quick trip to the lhs to pick up some more LED's, I got to work on installing the front headlight. I removed this models smoke unit at the very beginning of this thread. The resulting open spot in the models frame gave me a nice bit of room to place the resistor for the LED. I drilled and tapped two holes in the frame, tightened down a set of 2-56 screws, and ground down the heads to clear the boiler. This gives me a spot to solder to and still use the frame as a power source.
Even 3 mm LED's are too big for HO headlights, I had to file the ridge at the back of the LED to get it to fit into the Casting.
A quick test to see if it works.
and then it was reinstalled and the generator glued into place.
After a quick trip to the lhs to pick up some more LED's, I got to work on installing the front headlight. I removed this models smoke unit at the very beginning of this thread. The resulting open spot in the models frame gave me a nice bit of room to place the resistor for the LED. I drilled and tapped two holes in the frame, tightened down a set of 2-56 screws, and ground down the heads to clear the boiler. This gives me a spot to solder to and still use the frame as a power source.
Even 3 mm LED's are too big for HO headlights, I had to file the ridge at the back of the LED to get it to fit into the Casting.
A quick test to see if it works.
and then it was reinstalled and the generator glued into place.
My other car is a locomotive, ARHS restoration crew