Thread: My 1955 86" rebuild.

Funny how that tighten before loosening works isn't it. Wonder if someone worked that out or if, like most of us, had a habit of turning the nut the wrong way and suddenly realised it was making things easier

Incidentally, your picture of the burner shows as a link (you left the [/img] off). What gas is it?

My internet connection was on the blink so gawd knows what that was LOL, the gas is the 'Map' gas that I was telling you about a few weeks ago, it is a disposable cylinder, Bunnings sell them, saves me lighting the Oxy/acetylene, cheers Dennis
ps now the image can be seen along with a much bigger gap between the text LOL

I thought it was the unit you showed me the other day. What's MAP?

A link to the google page, cheers Dennis
https://www.google.com.au/?gws_rd=ssl#q=map+gas+torch

Pushing on regardless of the heat, I had to run the tap n die over these and more this morning

they were grit blasted, etch primed (and the underside of all washers painted flat black), now awaiting their top coat of Silver

Some of the hoodsticks needed attention as they were bent out of shape

and a little while later after some careful use of force

one of them had a very rusted up bolt that had to be removed, so I cut it off with bolt cutters and ground it back, then hit it with a sharp cold chisel

it then unscrewed LOL

Some the hoodsticks have been etch primed, some needed a touch with the Mig, it will have to wait now until tomorrow after work, when I will clean them up and etch prime them.
I mixed up a small amount of Silver paint this afternoon, and sprayed a couple of items

anyway that's been part of my day, hopefully my new canvas cover will arrive from Victoria through the week, cheers Dennis

That man's got a lathe, lucky so and so

(anyone else take the opportunity to check out other people's sheds as well as looking at the Landy bits? )

I also have a lot of other stuff as well, but not like some people in here that have 1st class workshops that make my stuff look ancient LOL, I bought that lathe almost 38 years ago and used it to build this

it runs on compressed air so it will run on steam when I ever get around to it, it's a 5" gauge 'P' class 4-6-0 NSWGR with an 8 wheeled tender, cheers Dennis

Impressive. Going from that to these pieces of glorified farm machinery must be a shock to the system.