Cheese-06

[Neilos83]

Hello everyone.
Here is my latest (and only working) model. Cheese-06. Based on the vale of rheidol diesel locomotive, number 10. All 3d printed in ABS (with many thanks to Trevor for all the tips on how to print ABS)
I really tried this time to make a proper model, as all my previous locos have been designed for my son, Toby to push around, but after a few goes with driving other people's locos, I think he is now ready for battery power, albeit not remote control- I don't quite have the funds for that yet.
I used a lot of the design of a previous model I made of the Brecon mountain railways diesel, although this was very basic.
Cheese-06 has all sprung axles, roller bearings on the axles and rods and drives, brass bevel gears and Working chopper couplings. The couplings i downloaded from makerworld.
I used brass heat set inserts for all the threaded components, a new one for me but I'm very impressed with the results.
Power comes from 2 x 4AA battery boxes connected to a speed controller and 12v motor. The wheels I found in the shed, but I've since printed wheels in ABS and I've been happy with the results.
Im hoping to take this along to a 16mm meet up , so i can give it a run and iron out any problems. I still don't currently have a railway of my own.

Best wishes
NEIL.

[ge_rik]

Beautifully crisp printing. Maybe I should try ABS again - dire results last time I tried.

Rik

[Peter Butler]

That is a remarkably good finish for 3D printing. Excellent job there, I'm sure Toby is delighted!

[SimonWood]

Wow this looks really nice indeed Neil, I'm looking forward to seeing it for real. Some very crisp detail. Did you print in multi-colour or are the spring details printed separately and glued on?

Trevor's tips and advice have massively improved my results with ABS but I still tend to default to PLA, I certainly haven't tried anything as ambitious as this in ABS.

[Johnnie1000]

That's a cracking piece of work. I love it.

[Neilos83]

Thanks all. I didn't use multicolour on this, im hoping to get an AMS in the next few weeks.
Im going to add some wasp stripes next week, and a few more details.
We took Cheese-06 to the Rheilffordd fynnon fach at the Bridgend and district model engineers society for their monthly open day, and gave it a few runs around the loop, pulling a wagon and onboard a scale copy of a Port Talbot steelworks teeming ladle.