Build Diary entries for May 2025
Here are the diary entries for this month. You can use the forward and backward links to see the next or previous months. Most photos taken before 2018 are small size. From 2018 onwards, most photos you see below will have a link to a full size image by clicking on the photo.
| Leading Coupled Wheels |
| 12/05/2025 |
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Our leading coupled wheels were delivered today from William Cook Cast Products who have kindly sponsored the manufacture of all 6 coupled wheels. No sooner than they had arrived then Ashley set about applying a coat of primer. Next week they will be turned over for the underneath to be painted. |
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| Sandpipe Filler Chutes |
| 15/05/2025 |
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Unlike the original Class 6 and 7 designs, the 2nd batch of Clans were designed to have 3 sandboxes instead of 2. In the original design, the front coupled wheel sand ejector was fed by a long horizontal pipe from one of the sand boxes. This must have been prone to clogging up; hence the development of the lot 242 design with an extra sandbox to service the leading wheels. These are the sandpipe filler chute plates recently delivered from ESP Laser Cutting in Rotherham. The next stage will be to get the top and bottom plates bent to the match the shape of the side plates. The small plates at the top of photo on the bag are example of the brackets that fasten the chute to the running plate. These, too, will need to be bent as they need to form a 90 degree bracket with two 45 degree bends. Finally, the cross pieces at the bottom are the sandpipe caps which will also need bending. After bending, the chutes will be assembled by welding. |
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