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Re: 5" gauge model of 4472 Flying Scotsman

Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2021 3:13 pm
by drmditch
Atlantic 3279 wrote: Sun Feb 14, 2021 11:53 am I am again seriously impressed, and now more than ever painfully aware of the amount of detail missing from "very good" small scale models...
Agree entirely.

Re: 5" gauge model of 4472 Flying Scotsman

Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2021 3:34 pm
by greenglade
Thanks for the kind words guys...not every small detail will be on my model but I'll try to include most, Just wait until I get to the backhead...:)

Kind regards

Pete

Re: 5" gauge model of 4472 Flying Scotsman

Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2021 6:09 pm
by greenglade
An early blog entry for this week, the drop links are now made and fitted temporarily to their respective outside crossheads. Next will be the outside connecting rods, hopefully, these won't take as long as the crossheads...🙂

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http://4472flyingscotsman.co.uk/drop-links/

Pete

Re: 5" gauge model of 4472 Flying Scotsman

Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2021 9:42 pm
by greenglade
New blog entry, this time the 'Outside Connecting rods' hopefully these will only take two parts. Here's part 1

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http://4472flyingscotsman.co.uk/outside ... ting-rods/

Pete

Re: 5" gauge model of 4472 Flying Scotsman

Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2021 5:33 pm
by greenglade
Well no blog entry this week due to the mill throwing a wobbly and thus stopping me in my tracks with the connecting rods, I had hoped to have them finished today. Oh well, I need to strip the mill head down and find what's rattling like stones in a tin can....lol Not to be beaten, I took advantage of this downtime and revisited the pipework on the crossheads. I have added the details in the drop link blog entry. The solitary picture is shown below.

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Pete

Re: 5" gauge model of 4472 Flying Scotsman

Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2021 5:08 pm
by greenglade
A short video of testing the oil ways, all working as planned.

https://youtu.be/mtgx84Q-7Pc

Pete

Re: 5" gauge model of 4472 Flying Scotsman

Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2021 4:06 pm
by greenglade
Good afternoon folks, my apologies for lack of blog updates over the last few weeks. As mentioned my mill decided to throw a wobbly which slowed things down somewhat. Luckily it didn't cost money to fix, just stripping down the spindle, repack with grease and tightening the taper bearing collars. This blog entry covers the completion of the outside connecting rods, well accept some final bits which are detailed in the blog. The updates may be less regular for a short while as I'm going to be giving my classic car some much needed TLC, it won't stop the updates but will mean my time is split for a while.
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http://4472flyingscotsman.co.uk/outside ... ompletion/

Pete

Re: 5" gauge model of 4472 Flying Scotsman

Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2021 8:33 pm
by greenglade
Tonight's, blog entry sees one of the outside connecting rods fitted. Well, still I have two small jobs to do, details in the blog.

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http://4472flyingscotsman.co.uk/outside ... s-fitting/

Pete

Re: 5" gauge model of 4472 Flying Scotsman

Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2021 6:04 pm
by greenglade
good day all

A couple of quick videos to share with you guys...rolling test after fitting the outside rods (tolerances are crazily close in some areas) and a short overview. I'll do a proper 'walkaround' video describing the various oiling points and fine details soon.

I don't how to embed video on this forum so will just post the links.

https://youtu.be/782RA0Lnyfo

https://youtu.be/V46-IVSejsI

Pete

Re: 5" gauge model of 4472 Flying Scotsman

Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2021 9:26 pm
by greenglade
The new blog entry which covers the first outside piston to be fitted has just been posted, the other one will only take me a short while in the morning and then I'll do the middle which I'll cover in its own entry sometime next week.

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http://4472flyingscotsman.co.uk/outside ... g-process/

Pete

Re: 5" gauge model of 4472 Flying Scotsman

Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2021 7:45 pm
by greenglade
hi guys and gals

I have just posted a more detailed 'walk around' video of 4472, hope it's of interest, please forgive the few errors such as calling Wakefield lubricators, Westfield...:)

https://youtu.be/vI9MIqHN4co

Pete

Re: 5" gauge model of 4472 Flying Scotsman

Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2021 11:27 pm
by burnie
Looking good Pete

Re: 5" gauge model of 4472 Flying Scotsman

Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2021 5:25 pm
by greenglade
Thank you, Burnie...:)



Inside connecting rod is now fitted, next job will be a lot of tidying up and a fair number of oil pots to be machined. It's all getting pretty tightly packed in there...:)

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http://4472flyingscotsman.co.uk/inside- ... d-fitting/

Pete

Re: 5" gauge model of 4472 Flying Scotsman

Posted: Wed May 19, 2021 3:19 pm
by greenglade
I've been a little busy of late working on the car and thus not much to show with this build but there are some things happening in the background and one such thing is the rolling road. I have now put the details on the blog, a big thank you to ED at Model engineers Laser for his superb kit. The car still has a way to go but I hope to post a proper update soon, I just find it difficult these days to concentrate on more than one thing at a time...lol
Anyway, here's the RR details

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http://4472flyingscotsman.co.uk/rolling-road/

Pete

Re: 5" gauge model of 4472 Flying Scotsman

Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2021 3:10 pm
by greenglade
Good afternoon everyone... first of all my sincere apologies for not publishing a new blog entry since mid-May. Some of you will be aware that my health took a bit of a dive in May and alas hasn't improved much since, going by my time spent in Cardiology it's not likely to get much better either. So I was forced to take a step back with light duties only, I am feeling a little stronger but not much and therefore am trying to get back into the build slowly. To do this I chose some light machining, to begin with, and the rod/slidebar oil pots seemed to fit the bill.
So here we are, first blog entry in nearly 8 weeks..

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http://4472flyingscotsman.co.uk/rod-and ... ling-pots/

Pete