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The lower truss is soldered in another jig.





Then a few more parts have to be soldered into the cantilever, ...



... before the side and bottom trusses can be placed on the cantilever for the first time.

A joining plate must be fitted to the inside of the cantilever before the final assembly of the trusses.



The trusses and stiffening angles can then be mounted on the inside of the cantilever.

Done! (so far)

Now the pressing tool that I built for deforming stiffening angles is used.



There are some of these special reinforcement brackets on the back of the carrier.



There are also a lot of reinforcement and joining plates.

Various parts must be prepared for the installation of the hopper rail.





All parts can then be mounted on the inside of the girder.

And this is what the (almost) finished inside looks like. I won't be able to fit some parts until later, because they have to fit exactly with the truss parts between the two girders.



The outside of the girder is somewhat simpler. There are only joining and reinforcement plates, no angles.





So I go back to the workbench. Always with the thought in the back of my mind: make two!

Bernhard

Bernhard
I know, the purpose of a hobby is to consume time. But this amount of fine engineering work is just unbelievable!!!
What also impresses me is your pressing tool for deforming stiffening angles - very clever.
Hats off!
Peter
P.S. Here also a link to some wonderful colour pictures on Jeff Arthur Knorek's FB site:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BWXMGfp4T/

Great guns, Batman, that is a magnificent piece of work! -- Russ

And I agree with all.
Barney

Stunning work!

Stuart

Marvelous!

One disadvantage I've found in working with styrene is that punching rivets into narrow strips tends to distort the plastic too much. From what I've seen here that doesn't seem to be an issue with brass.

Actually, it is an issue. That's another reason why Bernhard's modelling is so impressive.

Thanks Peter, Russ, Barney, Stuart, Ray and Krusty.
Ray, unfortunately brass strips and angles also warp slightly when riveting. However, you can straighten them relatively easily by hand.

Bernhard

Thank you all for your interest and your comments.

First a little picture story about the production of 4 stoppers for the hopper rails.

Now the hopper rail can be drilled and the M1 fastening threads cut.



To mount the larry car rail, a few brackets have to be made first.