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Thank you very much Mark and rkepler, Very telling photos indeed. Much to think about. But I'm about to get cracking - just waiting on the rivets being delivered. I think I might close this thread now and come back later when I am a bit wiser through experience!!! Peter Moyes

Thanks Mark and rkepler, That's all brilliant advice. I think I might try using the SMD solder paste, if I can get it in NZ but I am sure I can and heating it to melt with my gas torch on the outside after rivetting is complete. I had NOT thought about the banana problem, so that was timely...

Thanks fellows, Clamping and clipping small work is always a problem. I have run across this problem in wood in dolls houses. But metal is different!! I had thought I would start it off in a vice but that, again, will become a problem when I am generating a narrow box section. The interior...

Thanks rkepler and JasonB very useful advice. What is Clecos? I suspect that since mine is all brass, it could be a different experience to galvanised steel. Peter Moyes

I have a number of 20 gauge brass plates which I intend to assemble into the tender of a five inch gauge locomotive. The plates are rivetted by means of 3/64 inch brass snap head rivets using 1/4 inch 20 gauge brass angle. Can anyone give me some advice on the best way of applying these many...

Hi all, I joined HMEM quite a while ago after I had decided to build a working steam loco. My background is in carpentry and my workshop is equipped for woodwork and making stuff for dolls houses. However, now it's engineering and I have been working the workshop up, learning some stuff and...

I have just joined and have also just started into model engineering. My first project has been to build a boiler in accordance with the instructions contained in that excellent book, Making Simple Steam Engines. I now have a simple boiler can made of copper with a mild steel sheet support cage...