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RON

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Re: mini steam car
« Reply #60 on: May 25, 2019, 08:28:11 am »
Bonnet/hood
I thought the first place to start was to make a former
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Simply bent round the former the only mistake i made i should have softened the brass first it was a bit springy
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The front was soldered with lead free solder the side with silver solder was going to try and beat it round a former like boiler end caps but thought this way much neater
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Now the hard bit what shell to choose the r/x will fit any but i don`t know the battery dimensions
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So you see it`s really hard to choose the first t/x i had was valve operated the r/x was reed operated both home made ( forget from which mag it came from ) since moved on but still my radio gear is quite old will need to hunt the net to see if there is any mini stuff so will really need to think hard