Bashing A Brass USRA 0-8-0

[Schraddel]

The next chapter.

I removed the four tiny screws which holds the tender shrell:

O.k. there is much space inside to mount an NMRA 8-pin socket and much of space for the decoder also.
But i have to remove the front bracket partially to make room for the wires leading to the loco. The best solution seems to cut off the middle section of the bracket thus only leaving two angles left and right.

Done, but oops!

Due to a weak cold soldering the rest broke away.
What to do? Oh no, no soldering again see the last post with the steam dome. And because of the seize of the parts i have had to use a torch and burning as unwanted effect the laquer.

I decided to leave the "pure brass doctrine" and do the repair job by glueing:

Some pieces of styrene sheet will do the job. I this case the glueing area is large enough so that mechanical strenght is possible bigger than a soldering point.
You can also seen the opening i made in the front wall of the tender shell for the wires.

The next step was of mechanical nature:

The aged rubber tube you very often found on brass locomotives was replaced by universal joints.
After running test with the motor running alone, i decided to use this quiet and soft running Canon motor again.

Lutz

To be continued