{"id":4629,"date":"2021-05-16T21:10:55","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T20:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4629"},"modified":"2021-05-16T21:10:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T20:10:55","slug":"globe-lubricators-from-brass-bearings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4629","title":{"rendered":"Globe lubricators from brass bearings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Further to my last post, when the brass bearings arrived I knocked one up into a lubricator to see how I would do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a bit interesting drilling out the bearing but following advice given I got a short length of tube the same diameter as my bearing and made a slit in it to make a split collet. This I gripped in one of the collets on the lathe and then I centre drilled it. Followed by drilling right through. They are slippery little blighters and one flew off into space as I was attempting to load into the lathe collet. Surprisingly I found it a couple of hours later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was fortunate to have some 1mm square bar in stock so I drilled right through one way and then half way on one side. When I fitted the rod through the bearing and into the square section I filed half of it away for the last millimetre which gave me a bit more room to solder the piece in that goes into the boiler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"625\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0001-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4626\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0001-2.jpg 625w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0001-2-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0001-2-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption>Globe lubricator from a brass bearing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the obligatory scaling piece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"771\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0002-2-1024x771.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4627\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0002-2-1024x771.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0002-2-300x226.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0002-2-768x578.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0002-2-398x300.jpg 398w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0002-2.jpg 1522w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Globe lubricator from a brass bearing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As with all such things in modelling making one is sometimes the easy part making another or several is more difficult. So it proved with the second one<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I ruined one bearing when I hadn&#8217;t quite tightened the collet enough and the bearing wasn&#8217;t centred, then I didn&#8217;t get enough solder on the cross pipe so that came adrift as I cut it short and I ended up having to re-drill it in the pillar drill before I could solder it back in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But get a pair I did. My collection of bits for the D2 is slowly coming together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"753\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0003-2-1024x753.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4628\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0003-2-1024x753.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0003-2-300x221.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0003-2-768x565.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0003-2-408x300.jpg 408w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_0003-2.jpg 1178w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Globe lubricators from brass bearings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further to my last post, when the brass bearings arrived I knocked one up into a lubricator to see how I would do it. It was a bit interesting drilling out the bearing but following advice given I got a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4629\">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":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-n-tricks"],"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\/4629","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=4629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4630,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4629\/revisions\/4630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}