{"id":1675,"date":"2015-03-01T17:43:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T22:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/?p=1675"},"modified":"2015-03-01T17:43:52","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T22:43:52","slug":"backdated-cp-65-gondola-grab-irons-and-final-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/2015\/03\/01\/backdated-cp-65-gondola-grab-irons-and-final-details\/","title":{"rendered":"Backdated CP 65′ Gondola – Grab Irons and Final Details"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s an old project I was able to bring off the shelf on a peaceful Sunday afternoon. I documented the start of this project earlier in a couple of postings here on this blog, (see part one here<\/a>, and part two here<\/a>) and it’s been over a year since I’ve gone and done anything with this. Time to finish a few things up and get this project ready for finishing.<\/p>\n

The next step that was holding me back on this project was drilling and installing the grab irons for the left corners on each side. Not that this was really a tough job.<\/p>\n

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To aide in keeping everything neat and straight, I laid out the locations of the drill holes for the grab irons on a scrap piece of styrene to use as a drilling template\/jig. The jig fits into the corner made by the top chord and first vertical rib on the side of the car. Then by drilling through the pre-drilled holes in the template into the car side, everything is lined up nice and neatly.<\/p>\n

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I also reinstalled the brake wheel and housing, and used a piece of scale chain to represent the brake chain heading down from the brake wheel mechanism. The brake platform\/step was cut down from the original long piece removed from the factory Exactrail model with a pair of supports out of a Tichy brake details set.<\/p>\n

At this point the car is ready to be cleaned up and prepped for painting; I’ll probably fire up the airbrush this evening to give is a primer coat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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