QuikFit

Marc my grandson Is having a sleepover and wanted to see what the railcar looks like when it will be finished so we test fitted the body on to the chassis, all fitted reasonably well may be a little trimming when the interior is done but so far I’m pleased.

It's all about weight

 

I spent a couple of hours this afternoon working on the interior; I managed to hide 10 grams of lead sheet under the false floor! The chassis with the motor now weighs a healthy 62 grams result! More fabricating of seats to finish the front or is it the rear Compartment.

Smoke and mirrors and a false floor

Its Thursday already where do the days go? Well after taking my PA, sorry Linda my lovely wife for some retail therapy from which she came back somewhat disappointed we popped in to my daughters to take her out to lunch for a birthday treat, Happy birthday Rachel.

I spent some time constructing the false floor to hide the running light cables 0.5mm bearers cemented to the chassis, the cables “super” glued to the chassis to which the false floor with the seating will be attached

 

I intend to make an open topped box to surround the motor and attach the decoder to the front face roughly where the red line is showing that should work. But and there is always a but I may have to change my plans

Case of the missing heat shrink sleeve

I cannot find my small shrink tube any where  off to Maplin me thinks, you watch I'll find it tonight.

Loose wires

I will be going to our local model railway exhibition next Saturday best get a decoder because there are a lot of loose wires hanging out now

well that’s all for now I can hear 'cook' bashing the pans so dinner is nearly ready, Oh there the dinner gong has sounded.

Both sets of pre fabricated running lights fitted to the cab front with rapid epoxy adhesive (well not so rapid) but never the less attached  the is some filling of blemishes the plastic is rather soft and my macro lens to 1:1 ratio picks up all the defects!

 

Underside of Cab front showing LED light board

 

4 pin strip fixed to the chassis top pin red, lower pin white LED. the centre pins + feed to the LEDs next job fixing dropper resistors to the centre two pins and fixing to chassis. A bit of cleaning round the hook and buffer before the whole frond section is encapsulated in epoxy, the fixing of the hook and buffers are rather weak and will not take much handling.







4 pin strip

 



The area in the motor where the wires need modification for DCC operation, gotta get a suitable chip first!





Motor connection



Not a lot of progress this week but its something to give enjoyment and I’m finding all my  old skill that have not been used for over 20 or more years

 

Well that’s both sets of running lights fabricated and electrically tested, time for a little break until the week end.

 In the mean time I have been thinking of my next mini project conversion of a very sorry looking Hornby 75 Ton steam crane a diesel powered version more of that later that’s all for now folks.