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It’s taken a while to get back to working on the Burrell door. In particular making a new set of hinges for the curved door that I made a few weeks ago. The Burrell smokebox already had two holes drilled to accept 8BA bolts. Therefore, one of my first jobs was to align the door … Read more
The smokebox door hinge for the Burrell has caused me a lot of grief. I thought I would share below the disasters that I’ve had on the way to creating a hinge that I’m happy with. So, I went back to basics, read a number of articles about silver soldering. Because, even though I’ve done … Read more
In order to make the hinge for the smokebox door I first created an elongated hinge and jig. Not perfect, but gave me a good alignment of each side. This alignment of each side of the hinge is important. Fundamentally an aligned hinge works better. This being the smokebox for the 1/20th scale Burrell traction … Read more