Santa Fe 1480 Class Atlantic

[Schraddel]

Thank you for the laurel!

The next step was to prepare the tender for DCC installations.


Here the look as factory outfitted. (Note frame and shell are turned 180°)
Original there were 2 centered screws front and aft to mount the shell. In preparation to make a channel for the wiring i drilled 2 new borings at the front end of the tender.
Also 2 new bores were made into the bottom plate of the chassis for the wires leading to the wipers of the tender trucks.


The new mountings got tapped.


And the middle section was removed by cutting with a grinder. Also a part of the front wall was cut out, thus creating a channel for the DCC wiring and make further acess to the interior easy without the need of soldering.


The inner mounting plate was resoldered at some of the seems and 3 nuts were soldered onto the plate too. The nuts have the same measure of height as the the measure mounting plate to the bottom when the shell sits onto the chassis. Thus taking the strength from the soldering points when the screws had a tight fit.

Lutz