album:January 2023

New Governor Spring with the old shattered one.

The complete Governor Assembled with the new Spring, Centrifugal Weights, and Bearing Pin. The Centrifugal Weights are also awaiting hardening.

New cast Iron Gland Ring to replace the broken one. These seal at the back of the Turbine to stop low pressure steam leaking out from the Turbine Housing. A bit of work is still needed with a needle file to open the slot up to allow the ring to compress to its fitted diameter.

New Bearing Pin with its polished end face. This will be where the Graphite Pad will rest with the pin rotating at approximately 3500 RPM. The pin is now boxed up for Julie's attention for hardening.

Alistair uses the magnetic base drill to drill through the cab floor frame and support angle.

Gwion paints the cab steps that he had cleaned up.

Bobby measures the crossheads.

Cab steps complete and painted. The tatty and bent Chinese originals have scrubbed up well! It would probably been easier to have started from scratch and made new ones, but these will retain a bit of the loco's character.

The cab floor frame complete, cleaned and painted in primer.

Crosshead components after disassembly, cleaning and measuring.

Cab floor support angles are now drilled, cleaned and primed. Some of the cab floor packer pieces are just visible on the left hand side.

Paul trial fitting the driver side slide bar and checking how parallel it is to the cylinder center line.