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scc:
Several years ago I purchased a set of secondhand wheel rims, some laser cut spokes and a set of front and rear hub castings. Then a set of drawings from Live Steam Models. With limited time and resources I pottered on slowly. I took few photos, never having heard of build threads. Having recently joined this excellent forum , member "Jadge" enquired about seeing some pics. I had put them onto www.picasaweb.google.com/terrybullard.  It seems that the site no longer works as it did. Instead I will try and get them in some sort of sequence and put them on here a few at a time. Anyone interested will have to be patient as my pc skills are limited. :Doh:

jadge:
 :whoohoo:

Andrew

scc:
As mentioned previously, I started with a set of hub castings and wheel rims.  The hubs have to be slotted to locate the spoke ends. At the time I did not own a dividing head. As you can see in the photo the solution was simple....fix the hub to an old gearwheel with suitable teeth, spigot the lot to the mill table and use a bolt as a register. It worked anyway!

scc:
I soon bought a front axle casting and modified it to suit the prototype I was following. This entailed removing the steering chain bosses and shortening, plus replacing the cast wheel collars with removable ones. I also made the hubcaps.  I had made a start on what was to be a much longer project than I first thought.

scc:
The next step was to build the front wheels, all straightforward stuff and probably of no great interest to most MEMers.  The pics explain themselves.    Terry

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