Re: Flanger Operation

Posted by Chris Walker on
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Flanger-015-tp19711p19864.html

Glad to help(or frustrate) you Keith.

"I am nearing the point where I need to plan and fabricate them. The rivets on the blades tell a whole story themselves! D&RGW flangers have two braces, and the photo gives further credence to the idea that all the flangers share the same heritage. "

If you go back to pg1 of this thread, or to the NGPictorial, and review the photos, it is quite clear that the Blades visible on the D&LG versions followed that of those of the D&RG, except the 015 now has very tall blades that keep the sheet steel look with little shaping at the corners(unlike those of the D&RG).  Seems it got rebuilt at sometime later.  Those blades you showed don't reach up anywhere near the top of the mainframe.

The D&RG flangers varied alot: some having single, some having doubled bracerods, one(OJ) flat steel instead of round bar before final iteration and then there was a different style of forming the eye of the rodends, however they all seem to brace at the centre of the blade.  NGPict vol-VII shows the whole lot.