{"id":6384,"date":"2024-01-04T15:27:27","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T14:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6384"},"modified":"2024-01-04T15:27:27","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T14:27:27","slug":"david-andrews-princess-royal-the-oil-box-saga-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6384","title":{"rendered":"David Andrews Princess Royal – The Oil box saga continues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have managed to make steady progress over the festive period despite the setback of a power cut all day on Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I now have all the oilers repiped and soldered to their respective brackets or direct to the footplate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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DA Princess Royal Oilers Fitted to the footplate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Two Port oilers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This was the setup that I used to solder the pipes into the rear of the bracket mounted two port oilers. An oak block with a hole drilled in it to accommodate the leadscrew f the handvice. The hole is quite a snug fit so that when the block is clamped to the bench the vice itself doesn’t move. The brackets were clamped in the vice with a piece of square bar supporting them which seemed to make up for the third or fourth hands that I could have done with when soldering pipes to the others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Workholding to solder oiler pipes in place.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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DA Princess Royal Two and Four Port Oilers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I won’t fit the bracket mounted ones until I have the firebox and boiler fitted in the next couple of days or so. I have also done work on a few other details but I am not ready to share them yet as they aren’t completed yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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