Hi,
the covers for the binder pendulums found their place at the bogies. Meanwhile I found a reasonable way to solder the bogies lot. The upper and lower plates have slots for the vertical front parts, which again have slots for the brake system brackets and so on. This way I'm able to premount all parts and then solder them, starting wih the both front sides. The additional detailing on the upper plate follows in a next step, again using the flambé torch.

I cover all areas with an edding, which should not receive solder; neither soldering fluid nor solder stick to it.

Bogie with covers:

Mounting the frame means to tighten hundreds of M 0.8 screws. I used a piece of wood and some harder foam to keep them aligned for assembling washers and nuts.

The working braking system requires a lot of washers and splints. I didn't want to bore more than 250 0.5 mm holes into 1.4 mm pins, but found another solution, which may work as cast parts.

I reduced the standardizes, wrong diameter washers to 2.1 and 2.7 mm diameter with the Dremel.


The self filed splints are brazed to them. This allows to solder the small parts to the casting tree (is this the right english word

?).


I made different executions of the bent splints.

So those parts later on only need to be soldered to the pins which for sure is much less effortful than drilling all the holes and filing all the splints. Hole diameter is 1.5 mm. After casting they still should fit to the 1.4 mm bolts.
Cheers,
Volker