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The drawings have been kindly made available for download, and are now the Association of 16mm Narrow Gauge Modellers website:
https://www.16mm.org.uk/
Marginally off topic, but......dewintondave:115036 wrote:A start has been made; wheel blanks. I faced off, rough turned the OD, and sawed the blanks off at work today. These wheels are going to have LGB style 3 mm deep flanges.
Best wishes,
Dave
I'll chuck them one at a time in my 3 jaw chuck and drill and ream the bore. All the turning will be with the blank mounted in a mandrel held in the chuck.-steves-:115040 wrote:Can I ask a dumb question and one I have wondered for a while. Now you have cut the wheels from the bar, how will you make the flanges and any dish or recesses in the wheels as I would not know where to start to mount this in a lathe now? Drill the middle and put a bolt through it? I just don't know? I would be very interested to see this done as I have some bar for wheels but honestly don't know where to start
Like Dave I cut my wheel discs with a bandsaw, as my chinese 7x12 mini lathe hasn't got a hope of parting off mild steel that dia.-steves-:115059 wrote:That is brilliant, thank you. It gives me an idea of how I can do my own wheels now. What angle is the wheel flat that runs on the track done at? I think I may struggle trying to part off these in my lathe, so I may well cut up cutting them in a band saw, then putting them in the mill to get them the same thickness and smooth them off.
There's a blocking high over the Tasman, so too hot to be in the workshop here and tomorrow is even hotter with a severe fire warning. Sigh....dewintondave:115085 wrote:All this talk of wheels + the poor weather = lathe work.
I'm using the round nose finishing tool that came with my Unimat 3 lathe all those years ago. I'm taking .010" depth cuts with it.GTB:115090 wrote:What tool have you used to recess the front of the wheel? I ground up a special for that job, but sometimes run into problems with chatter.
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