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Cut and fabricated a set of forward chassis mount plates along with the first part of the rear spring hangers, did discover a tendency for one side of the chain drive to bind and found this chain was one link shorter, made up a new chain and seems to have cured the problem.

Next of assembled the front axle components - silver soldered up the axle stubs and the main axle spacer bar, then fabricated the front spring. Found that the Foden front axle I had measured is actually shorter than the rear in width, meaning I had to add in an insert to get the right scale 7'-6" width overall - had this been done on the full size machine the same would have to have been done.

Made up a set of track rod fork ends and a track rod with a 10BA thread on it useing a bot of steel rod from a Firework sparkler (never throw away useful items...)