{"id":587,"date":"2013-07-07T14:51:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T13:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=587"},"modified":"2013-07-07T14:51:41","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T13:51:41","slug":"a-moment-that-i-was-dreading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=587","title":{"rendered":"A moment that I was dreading…."},"content":{"rendered":"

Not much has been happening on the workbench of late due to DIY\/Gardening and general lack of Mojo :0(<\/p>\n

One of this things that has been done is one of those things that I was dreading and which when I finally plucked up the courage to have a go at it went very smoothly and easily.<\/p>\n

What I was dreading was soldering the two pieces together in between the whitemetal fingers.<\/p>\n

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\nHow I achieved it was:
\nI fastened both arms to the links to the rods together with the 16ba nut and bolt provided. The ends of each are half thickness to create a lap joint. I then bolted one end to the frame spacer and held the two half lapped ends together with a pair of cranked locking tweezers.
\nNext using a tip that I picked up on one of Richard Lambert\u2019s threads I cut some strips of kitchen paper and folded them so that they would fit down either side of the area to be soldered and wet them with a pipette after using tweezers to position them. Once the whitemetal at both sides was suitably protected, flux was applied to the joint; a quick in and out with the soldering iron tinned with 145 degree solder and the job was done.<\/p>\n

Hopefully the 3 photos show the various positions as the valve gear moves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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