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Good morning all,
I apologize for the multiple posts, eventually; all of them will be consolidated and put into my builders log once the project is complete.
To start with, the drive rods as supplied from aristocraft were not the right shape so I had to make my own. On one of my previous builds, One of you suggested using English style bull head rail for drive rods, and that advice did not fall on deaf ears. I could not find any rail like that so I did the next best thing. I took a piece of aristocraft stainless steel rail and filed off the base to see how it would look.
Being happy with the results, I cut a couple of pieces to size, clamped them in my vice and file away.
I then glued a pattern on a two pieces of brass to be cut out the form the ends of the drive rod.
The parts were then silver soldered together.
Finally, I used an electroplating kit that I got from Micro Mark to plate the brass portion of the drive rods.
Here is an overall photo of the project so far.
Joel
Over the past two weeks I have been working on the front of the smoke box, had lamp, keystone, and drive rods.
I apologize for the multiple posts, eventually; all of them will be consolidated and put into my builders log once the project is complete.
To start with, the drive rods as supplied from aristocraft were not the right shape so I had to make my own. On one of my previous builds, One of you suggested using English style bull head rail for drive rods, and that advice did not fall on deaf ears. I could not find any rail like that so I did the next best thing. I took a piece of aristocraft stainless steel rail and filed off the base to see how it would look.
Being happy with the results, I cut a couple of pieces to size, clamped them in my vice and file away.
I then glued a pattern on a two pieces of brass to be cut out the form the ends of the drive rod.
The parts were then silver soldered together.
Finally, I used an electroplating kit that I got from Micro Mark to plate the brass portion of the drive rods.
Here is an overall photo of the project so far.
Joel
Over the past two weeks I have been working on the front of the smoke box, had lamp, keystone, and drive rods.