{"id":144884,"date":"2024-10-29T09:22:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T23:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=173577c988a99e857905697a88b2b17c"},"modified":"2024-10-29T09:22:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T23:22:21","slug":"not-a-spitfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=144884","title":{"rendered":"Not a Spitfire"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I mentioned that there would be three 16 ton minerals running with COND lettering for Rhiw 2. This sprung me into thinking that I should get the third done as well. To this end the Airfix box was pulled from the cupboard and a start made. Then I thought why not run it as a short series. Not that the highly experienced readers here need any tutorials, but with half and eye on how well the Spitfire series went down a few years back.<\/div>\n
The idea was to make this a modified version with evidence of new welded plates on the sides and a plated top door. All this is straight forward in wagon bashing terms and the start was to chop out the top doors with a saw and knife as above.<\/div>\n
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Removing this made the side a little waggly so the doors were added to firm things up, but not before taking the dangly Airfix hinges off leaving a short stub. I noted from photos the the central bar on the top door-less versions is thinner, so these were reduced with a file down to about 50%.<\/p>\n

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Some 20 thou scrap made the plate section and the new top rail was cut from 40 thou sheet (ex recent platform building). So far, so good.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

 I mentioned that there would be three 16 ton minerals running with COND lettering for Rhiw 2. This sprung me into thinking that I should get the third done as well. To this end the Airfix box was pulled from the cupboard and a start made. Then I …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14169,2285,2284],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-16-tonner","category-airfix","category-wagons"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144885,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144884\/revisions\/144885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}