It's New Year, and I have a couple of railway turns, a party, visitors, and not much time in the workshop. I've done my last firing turn this season, on the 1943 ex-WD Austerity 2-10-0 no. 90775. A cracking thing to thrash across the countryside in the dark:
All in all, not much workshop time. I sneaked this in:
That's it, a bit of sleeving to tidy up the HT cables.
I've also replaced the secondary chain. There's 100 pitches here, as per the parts book, but I'm a bit mystified as to why the wheel is quite so far back in the slots.
I wonder if I have too many links in the primary chain...
(Updated April 2025: I did, but there was another problem. The parts book suggests the primary chain should have 73 or 74 pitches corresponding to the size of the engine sprocket. It turned out that I had 74 pitches and I had the sidecar engine sprocket which has 22 teeth - so not only was my primary chain way too long for the sprocket but the sprocket was wrong as well!)
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