{"id":4553,"date":"2021-04-21T21:42:07","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T20:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4553"},"modified":"2021-04-21T21:42:07","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T20:42:07","slug":"gcr-class-5a-turned-out-nice-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4553","title":{"rendered":"GCR Class 5A Turned out nice again&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Amongst the castings in the kit were what I originally thought were a couple of Ross Pop safety valves but it turns out that they were in fact the lids for the sand boxes either way they were not great. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What a great opportunity to make something meaningful with the new lathe, thinks I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, I turned up a pair of sandbox lids<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"825\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_0001-2-1024x825.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4547\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_0001-2-1024x825.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_0001-2-300x242.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_0001-2-768x619.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_0001-2-372x300.jpg 372w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_0001-2.jpg 1113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>GCR Class 5A Turned sand box fillers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"897\" height=\"770\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_00013.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4552\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_00013.jpg 897w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_00013-300x258.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_00013-768x659.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_00013-349x300.jpg 349w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 897px) 100vw, 897px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, one with the obligatory 5p piece for scale<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"646\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_00012-1024x646.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4551\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_00012-1024x646.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_00012-300x189.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_00012-768x484.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_00012-476x300.jpg 476w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_00012.jpg 1602w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I have to confess that these were my second attempt. The first pair were okay but I hadn\u2019t quite worked out how to make the two identical so there were some slight discrepancies in size \u2013 probably not really noticeable at this small size but I knew I could do better so I did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After making the first two sandbox fillers I turned (if you will pardon the pun) my attentions to the oilers. While buying other castings I had bought some oilers for the side of the smoke box and a set for the footplate. Having examined the ones on the footplate more closely in the photos I realised that the castings would be correct so I turned up a pair of those too. They were very similar to make, aside from I drilled these 0.8mm to take a piece of nickel rod to mount them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"913\" height=\"865\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_0003-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4549\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_0003-2.jpg 913w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_0003-2-300x284.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_0003-2-768x728.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_0003-2-317x300.jpg 317w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 913px) 100vw, 913px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I could have left a turned stem on the oilers but I need to be able to bend it so I reasoned that rod would be better for bending as I thought a turned stem would be likely to break off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And again, with the 5p piece<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"773\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_0004-1-1024x773.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4550\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_0004-1-1024x773.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_0004-1-300x226.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_0004-1-768x580.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_0004-1-398x300.jpg 398w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_0004-1.jpg 1826w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\nThe collets and chuck were invaluable and this type of thing really satisfies my urge to make things\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amongst the castings in the kit were what I originally thought were a couple of Ross Pop safety valves but it turns out that they were in fact the lids for the sand boxes either way they were not great. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4553\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gcr-class-5a"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4554,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553\/revisions\/4554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}