Locoworks - working on the 'Speeder'

 Some work done to move the project along ...

central divider added (front will be seat for driver & passenger, back for tools etc)...

'side skirts' added....

A bit of signage ...

 Having had new fences and gates done recently - thought I would add to the garden railway theme with some suitable signage for the gates...

Locoworks - Roof for the 'Speeder'

The little 'speeder' I bought for one of my 'winter' projects has had a back and roof frame added; today I made the roof. I used cardboard of various thicknesses, a flat base with some roof supports

the final roof surface of some carefully bent thin card board added - now looking more like a Wickham trolley

and it will eventually look similar to this ... 

but with back canvas rolled down, the front one up and a driver with passenger at the front (well thats the plan  😀....)

Locoworks - Bagnall 2-8-2 (wip part 6) - stopping Tender wobble ....

The running tests showed up a serious case of 'tender wobble', it rocked from side to side as it ran (especially after going round bends).

Inspection showed the mounts for the bogey wheel sets were on a smallish pivot; the bogey's being metal tended to rock as they hadn't sufficient surface to rotate on.

I managed to find some pieces of suitable plastic to make good wide pivot for the underside and levelled up the top of the bogeys.

 bogey's re-attached....

A quick run test on the garage layout - no wobble - another thing off the snag list.

Locoworks - Bagnall 2-8-2 (wip part 5) - Loco<->Tender coupling run test ....

 After a lot of looking at I came up with a scheme for the loco<->tender coupling.

I've used a couple of modified LGB couplings.. 

A quick test in the garage required a couple of tweaks; but OK round the radius 1 curves on the layout.

The loco waiting the go for its run test...

The run test...on Youtube : 

Locoworks - Bagnall 2-8-2 (wip part 4) - all wheels in place ....

The front and rear bogeys modified and replaced, along with some improvements and fill-ins to the under frame using some cardboard (which will be primed with PVA and painted eventually).

Finally 'the beast' runs round the tight curves on my layout. Back to sorting out the tender coupling ....

Locoworks - Bagnall 2-8-2 (wip part 3) - Centring up....

The first attempt at a tender coupling...

was not a success;  the main problem is the way the back of the loco swings out round a curve  - too much for any simple coupling to cope with.

Looking at the real loco this model is based on shows the main drive wheels are more in the centre  the original builder had them too near the front.  Changing it would reduce the cab overhang as it rounds a curve and the 'travel' required for the tender coupling.

Oh well here goes (fingys crossed)... working out the new position.....

Improvised cradle to work on the loco body. More of the under frame had to be removed...

added some chassis positioning and under frame re-inforcing pieces

The chassis re-fitted, now sitting nicely in the middle...

A lot of work, but it looks better and more balanced. A unexpected side effect was to level up the footplate (one more thing off my snag sheet 😀 ).  So now I'll have to redo the the connectors for the front and rear bogies (sigh 😢 ), before I can go back to the loco-tender coupling conundrum.

This loco is definitely a challenge, I like tricky problems ... plenty of tinkering and fettling left to do ...😎