JLRT Stanier Tender – sorting out the details

I had in my selection of castings and my spares box, a choice of two whitemetal dome castings. While I had a third options of turin a up completely new dome from brass or nickel I decided to see if I could clean up the fairly mediocre castings. I was able to grip the locating pin of the first one in a collet and it didn’t actually take much material removal to clean up the first casting (I measured it at 0.3mm overall)

Water Scoop dome
Water Scoop dome

Buoyed up with the results of the first one, I had a go at the second casting which was much better and only required a clean up of the top to remove minor pitting.

Stanier Tender Dome
Stanier Tender Dome

Now I have a choice of two to fit.