Front bogie

First job with the lathe was to make two spacers for the front bogie, 28mm wide, 4mm diameter and with an 8BA thread inside. Made for a good way to try out a couple of basic lathe operations, such as setting the height of the tool in the toolpost, 'facing-off' the ends of the rod to make them flat and square and then reducing the length of each rod to exactly 28.00mm, followed by centre-drilling each end (with the drill mounted in the tailstock) and then drilling the holes to 1.8mm, ready to be tapped 8BA.

Piccy below shows the bogie after fitting the spacers, I have since silver soldered the frames. Next job is the axleboxes and springs.