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Work on the fire door is completed and a start made on a replacement lever assembly

Construction of the fire door assembly for the Fowler A7 traction engine is completed and a start on the next part is made, namely a large control lever assembly.

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Fowler A7 Traction Engine 2″ scale – update 29th Aug 2008

The first job tackled today was marking out the latch blank and drilling the hole for the phosphur bronze pivot pin. Then the radius around the hole was shaped. To get the shape of the latch handle a 1/4″ brass bar was secured in the vice trapping the latch. Careful ‘tapping’ with a copper headed [...]

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