Nothing much to report. I have lost all the rubber bands but luckily I have my multi coloured pack. Added a bit to the carriage.
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The first thing that happened today was that I found my missing pieces. They were in the plastic boxes that I use to keep the pieces in! This particular box had another inside it so I missed it last weekend. …
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I am not sure if I mentioned it before. The instructions referred to short and long rubber bands. All my bands were of equal length. Well, my build today required the short band, as a drive belt for the flywheel. …
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More trim down the sides and in anticipation of next session, I placed the gears in situ.
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I was watching a video of the completed train, within it they mentioned a flywheel. While trying to find the page for today’s build, I happen to notice the flywheel instructions. It was then I discovered I had skipped a …
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A link to the piston and finishing the side panels on the driver compartment.
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Side panels, complete with door on both sides. The wind up mechanism works well although all the energy is released in a second. Looking forward to see how that is controlled in the final version. Probably should be a warning …
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I took last weekend off sick! Today was the power unit. There was even a little hook piece to pull the elastic bands through the holes.
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Funny old day today. I had to use the measuring tool to cut off the tips of four tooth picks although I only used 3 in the build. They now project beyond the set of cogs I made, I’m sure …
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Another subassembly, building up quite a collection. I did two pages today as they seemed to have over complicated “tomorrows” task of a single piece, a duplicate of one of today’s pieces.
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Another sub assembly. An access panel and a bit of cowling, not sure where that bit goes. The instructions were a bit misleading on the access panel. The door and frame were together on the cutout, but nowhere in the …
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Today I used the miscoloured wood section. I had wondered if it was special but it just seems to be a normal piece. I conclude that during the quality checks they decided to replace a defective section of my wood, …
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Only 5 pieces today and a full page of instructions. Just a lever, not too sure of its purpose yet.
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I came close to making my first big boo boo today. The assembly is held together with 12 cocktail sticks. Fortunately I was being cautious and paused before the final push together. It was a ratchet type device and I …
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Engine cowling today. It was nice doing a simple large section today, for tomorrow we are on to the complicated drive mechanism.
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Today’s build was a pair of mirror imaged piston blocks. On a real steam train, the pistons drive the wheels. There is probably a term for it, on the model the turning wheels move the pistons, decorative not functional. Star …
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Today I sustained my first injury. I slipped with my Stanley knife blade. The build consisted of a wheel bogey. I struggled with the last bit which didn’t make sense. Having looked ahead many pages, I finally saw it was …
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Today was the big moment. I was securing the wheels in position. The instructions showed how to line up the cogs. A specific tooth had to fall into the specific sprocket. I thought this was just to ensure the cogs …
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Today’s session concentrated on getting some gears into place and involved the use of the measuring tool for the first time. The measuring tool is just another shape pushed out from the plywood. It’s length indicates where to cut the …
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I broke my page a day rule and have just built three pages worth. Each page was a wheel, pretty much identical apart from being labelled R, C and L. There are differences in the holes which will come into …
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