RhB steam snow blower Xrot 9213 / R12

[Greg Hile]

What can I say that hasn't already been said, except wow!

[Design-HSB]

Thank you very much for your interest and recognition.

In the meantime, I have used the axle box for a trial in the bogie. The spring is thus compressed under full load. Of course, there are still missing the rockers on the spring pad.



Unfortunately I do not have pictures of the original at the moment, which I can show here for comparison. When I bought eyebolts, I simply ground the collar.

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hi Helmut love the adjusters on the leaf spring cheers kim

[Barney]

Workmanship of the highest
Barney

[Chuck Doan]

Yes indeed, just amazing.

[Design-HSB]

It continues with the bogies.


There are 2 different bogies and this is the back.
The front bogie is already finished.
Since the sling has a gigantic model weight, the bogies actually have no suspension but end stops. These end stops can be adjusted via the locknuts. Out of these end stops, the wheels can still spring out of the springs due to small compression springs.


Here the counter bearing of the bogie with an axial ball bearing as the model.

[finescalerr]

Wow! -- Russ

[Bill Gill]

Beautiful work! The weathering on the metal looks good. How did you do it?

[Design-HSB]

Bill, there's nothing aged yet, I just blasted the brass with alumina and browned.

[Ray Dunakin]

That looks amazing! The coloration makes it hard to imagine it's actually brass and not steel.

[Design-HSB]

Some may have already noticed, originally this was supposed to be a RHB Xrot 9213. Only after the announcement of LGB to bring a r13 to the market and the fact that this colourful railway project unfortunately no longer had the original resonance, Wilhelm and I decided to make the R13 a R12 to be able to finish the project at least for us .

The R12 itself is currently in the processing and we are also following this with interest, more on this [url = http://www.dampfschleuder.ch/] here [/url]:

Today I used to deal with the tender, because it is identical to the same and also identical to the tender of the steam locomotive.

So I used yes for the suspension eye bolts:



Much to me the picture of the water level sensor-probe from the tender and I had a solution.

Look here today I have built the water level sensor-valves.



Such a faucet consists of the following parts.

An M1 eye bolt with waistband.
A 2 mm piece of 1 mm tube for the spout.
An angle of 1 mm brass wire with an M1 thread.
With a M1 nut held, the faucet is even still to be operated.

Only there is no water in the tender, therefore no water can come out.

I think the good looks of my burnished brass hangs with my way of processing together. I radiate the parts immediately before the brown with aluminum oxide, which cleans the brass and raut it quite finely. Through this processing, the blueing works much more intensively.

[Bill Gill]

Looks great, Helmut!
Even though there is no water in the tender, you could pose a very convincing photo by having a worker near one of the valves and temporarily pushing the end of a clear fiberoptic rod lightly into the opening of the faucet and the other end poking into a clear resin puddle on the ground to model a stream of water squirting out.

[Design-HSB]

Hi Bill,

Therefore, I was glad that after soldering, at least 2 of 3 taps still allowed to move.

[Ray Dunakin]

Great work on those tiny valves!

[TRAINS1941]

That is some very fine work.

Jerry