{"id":6457,"date":"2024-02-17T12:44:18","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T11:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6457"},"modified":"2024-02-17T12:44:18","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T11:44:18","slug":"david-andrews-princess-royal-replacement-steam-pipe-sleeves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6457","title":{"rendered":"David Andrews Princess Royal &#8211; Replacement Steam Pipe Sleeves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Plan A is to recreate the flanged sleeve as a separate entity which will sip over the end of the main steam pipe and allow movement to hopefully take up the gap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I started by fly cutting both ends of a piece of nickel bar to the radius of the smokebox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1-IMG_1250.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1-IMG_1250-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6458\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1-IMG_1250-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1-IMG_1250-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1-IMG_1250-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1-IMG_1250-450x300.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1-IMG_1250.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Flycutting Steam Pipe Sleeves<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then, I turned down the diameter and drilled out the centres before parting them off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_00010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"455\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_00010-1024x455.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6459\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_00010-1024x455.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_00010-300x133.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_00010-768x341.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_00010-1536x682.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_00010-500x222.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_00010.jpg 1790w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Steam Pipe Sleeves<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The backing disks were turned from small squares of 0.2mm thick scrap etch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Backing-disk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"528\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Backing-disk.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6460\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Backing-disk.jpg 528w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Backing-disk-300x243.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Backing-disk-371x300.jpg 371w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The disks were turned, by super gluing the square offcuts to an arbor made from the remains of the nickel bar that the sleeves were turned from. I could have used solder to stick&nbsp;them to the arbor but reasoned that superglue would be easier to get off the finished disks and so it proved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1-New-Out99999-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"902\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1-New-Out99999-2-1024x902.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6461\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1-New-Out99999-2-1024x902.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1-New-Out99999-2-300x264.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1-New-Out99999-2-768x676.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1-New-Out99999-2-341x300.jpg 341w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1-New-Out99999-2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Superglue Arbor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The next job is to remove the cast sleeves from the end of the steam pipe castings.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","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":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-david-andrews-princess-royal"],"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\/6457","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=6457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6462,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6457\/revisions\/6462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}