Evening all. I thought i'd let you know what we've been up to this week, as its kind of quiet at the mo.
Finally we dont have to look at that awfull trolley that the q type arrived on anymore.
The materials have been here for a while now so I thought it was time we had a crack at it. We used some 5 by 2 channel for the main frame, cut it all to lenth and set it out on the floor, tacked it together remeasured and seam welded it together. Next we had to decide how to do the axles, we had some large cast wheels we aquired early last year, but two stub axles were bent, and all four were siezed in the wheel, after lots of penetrateing fluid and gentle heating eventually they all freed off. The two bent stubs were heated up cherry red and straitend with a big hammer :-)).
At this point I was unsure of how to fix the round stub shafts to the flat channel, a hunt in the workshop yealed some offcuts of 2 by 2inch thick wall box section, and after dressing the stub with an angle grinder the stub was tapped into the box section and welded in place, then the box was welded to the channel. and a flat 2inch plate welded on across to box for extra strength.
A turn table was fashoned from some 10mm flat plate that was lying around and a 16mm bolt is used as the axle pivot for now and will be replaced for a larger one soon, the rear axle was fixed on using four
12mm bolts, with all this completed, the engine could be fitted to the trolly, easy'er said than done with an engine of this size. The original skids are still under the engine and are in good condition and will stay between the engine and new trolley. Trolley jacks were placed under the skids and used to lift the up the front of the engine, and the trolley placed under the edge, the rear was then jacked up with another jack to just past level and a strap was placed around the engine block, and a winch was attached. The other end of the winch was connected to the front of the new trolley and the two winched together, this left us with about two feet to go, it was moved the rest of the way with a long lever. By this time it was getting dark and bloody cold so thats as far as we got.
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