Not much Series 1 content!!
I have been a little slack/pre-occupied with other things just lately, I had painted the jack handle and mounted it behind the seats
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...015/12/113.jpg
and yes it does fit through the front bar and engages the starter dog, damned if I could crank start it though LOL.
The rest of the time I have revisited my 5" gauge live steam locomotive, it has sat forlornly in the shed for more than 20 years without any care/maintenance, it looked so sad, the reason I made a move on it, the loco ended up in the background of an image I had posted elsewhere, and the request for more images/info etc led me just for old times sake, to push it along the track, shock horror the wheels were locked solid, panic set in, so out with the BA spanner sets, removing the front cylinder covers expecting the worst, but both sides were clean n dry, no sign of why it would be nipped up, I had to find out why n needed room to work.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...015/12/114.jpg
My wife allowed me to use her doggie grooming table, set up in the back room with the loco on it as there is very little room to move in the shed n the lighting is not good either,
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...015/12/115.jpg
so I moved the 1/2Ton platform trailer then took the boiler off the frame, and carried the loco & smoke box up into the house
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...015/12/116.jpg
I have removed the connecting rods on both sides, and was able to tap both rh/lh pistons back into the cylinders, so I assumed that the problem was elsewhere, the wheels were now free to rotate, (as I had thought it may have slipped an eccentric) my attention turned to the crossheads
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...015/12/117.jpg
and I was correct, the rhs crosshead was binding when the piston was fully forward, anyway to cut a long story short, I found that the slide bar was tight when the Xhead was fully forward, after taking some measurements I packed the slide bar with .006 thickness brass shim that fixed it
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...015/12/118.jpg
I was pleased that I found the problem also adding to it was the fact that it hadn't moved in such a long time it had gummed up, but that has been resolved now as the next image shows, working on about 50psi of air pressure (air pressure has no expansion qualities like super heated steam)
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...015/12/119.jpg
here are 2 clips, the first is running in reverse gear
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LvUXLw6k1Y[/ame]
now running in full forward gear, you can just hear the exhaust beats, but as the air pressure drops off the motion gear slows & stops abruptly
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FKw8tWYqyI[/ame]
anyway that's been my time over the past few days, and it has been raining so not good weather to be playing with Land Rovers, cheers Dennis
First run Saturday 27/2/16
After applying 'Op Rubics Cube' I managed to get the vehicle out of it's confinement and down the driveway without incident, out onto the street a short trip to the roundabout then back past home and around the block without incident (although I did see a Black cat LOL) away I have found the steering heavy, so I will have to look into that being a SWB it rides like a dray it has new gas shock absorbers or maybe it is just my 43 years of nursing (multiple back problems), it will need a tune up although it seemed to run OK, anyway here is a short clip while it was out n running free before I put it back into confinement
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os77E8acazw[/ame]
cheers Dennis
