"TENDER TUESDAY"

[Schraddel]

It is tuesday, TENDER TUESDAY.

Going to make a diaphragm between tender and loco from scratch:


The guide rods were made out of 0.8mm brass wire. On one end a 0.3mm bronze wire was soldered across, the ohter end was threaded with M 1.0mm thread.
The hinges were made out of 0.25mm bronze sheet (remains of frames for etching).
The black sheet is 0.5mm styrene.




The springs are out of the grab box.




The tunnel onto the tender front have to be a trapezoid shape to enable enough active play when the loco enters a curve.




As the styrene sheet is black coloured, there is lateron no painting necessary. And there will be no paint which can be rubbed off.




The tender front was drilled with 4 holes to enable the guide rods the necessasy movements. Still some adjustmens to do.