7.5" Gauge Gas to Electric Locomotive Conversion | Part 3, Building the Body

Join along for some detail on how the Davenport's body was assembled.
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[@ccrx6700]

Excellent presentation Matt. How cool you scaled it off a model. You sure did a great job in putting it together. 👍😎😊

[@mattkinnard6899]

Thanks Dave!

[@allison47]

Matt, thanks for the video. It was worth the wait.🤗

[@mattkinnard6899]

I am glad you found it useful.

[@TriGogglin]

That was a fantastic walk around Matt, thanks for the background on the build. You done a great job with the tools you had, it looks like something you store bought, we would of never of guessed if you didn't share the build. Cool you found the send cut send company.. .. thanks for the shout out, Really appreciate that.. that was such a fun day.. thank you..

[@mattkinnard6899]

Such a blockbuster to watch on a Friday night 🤣 Regardless thank you for your compliments and support! See you at the track next year.

[@TriGogglin]

@@mattkinnard6899 🤣🤣 you sell yourself short, I really enjoyed the video. Hope ya have a good weekend

[@danielfantino1714]

You did an amazing work and paint. Thanks for your shearing. The good point with all these critters, Davenport, Porter, GE, Brockville, Plymouth, Vulcan etc is that they made so many variations, with not too many look alike that as long as it´s plausible, you´re fine. Plus customers changes after decades of service. Fiberglass or steel body ? Harsh question. I prefer dent and bump with steel than fiberglass´s cracks. But the latter is easily repaired. Curves are the nightmare. Even if perfect radius isn´t attain, it must be the same on both faces. I too think about the pipe trick. Too thin is fragile and unweldable. Too thick, good luck for bending. Short pieces can be heated with torch for those that own one. But long pieces means failures. Welding together many small ones to make a big one ? An other hassle. I plan an Alco RS3. At more than 8 feet long, it´s a lot of hood and nose large radius curvature. The worst being the four hood corners where sides meet top panel and match with the front one. Sort of basketball shape. May be do and weld everything together, cut a perfect hole in the center (good luck to find it) add the perfect corner match...4 times then cab curves are different too. To add some spices to that nightmare, don´t know no one making AAR B trucks. Or cheat with Blomberg... Type of project good to keep me busy for a decade and to send me in some asylum... 😢😮😅😊

[@mattkinnard6899]

Thank you for the compliment! You made great points, good luck with your RS3

[@danielfantino1714]

@@mattkinnard6899 thanks.

[@davestrains6816]

Looking good

[@mattkinnard6899]

Thank you Dave!

[@tedmarcopulos8514]

Nice job on your project. Very impressive. I am working on a 1/8th scale version of a GE-75 ton steeple cab and have used AutoCad and SendCutSend as you did. The laser cut sheets for the body and the trucks and many of the frame parts really saves an incredible amount of time. The one part I'm having trouble with is bending the cab roof. I think made the roof sheet too thick and nothing I have seems to be able to bend it. I like your idea of the pipe and angle iron with a vice - I'll have to give it a try before I give up and order another piece in a thinner gauge. How did you get the overall curvature of the roof bent? I am trying to avoid having to buy a 24" roller just for one project.

[@mattkinnard6899]

I only had to bend the edges of the cab by hand. I have seen some clever diy sheet metal brakes made of wood on KZbin for bending a radius. Sometimes making a tool takes more time than making the part. I did not have to bend the slight curve on the top of the cab or engine hood. Due to the radius being so large, the profile of that curve was held when the roofs were welded to the cab/body walls. Good luck with your project!

[@backalleyrailroading2835]

Subbed from TriGogglin recommendation... Be checking out your future content !!

[@mattkinnard6899]

Thank you!