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I opted to modify the front of what had been originally I believe a brass\/bronze HO 2-8-2 frame, modified for OO, but not really suitable for any project I had in mind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Front end first, as part of the hacking done to the original frame, the slot for the cylinder block was filed about 1\/16″ lower than standard. The solution was to modify the HO frame to sit down in that slot, resize the front deck, and solder it with a torch — adding also a spacer to hold the cylinder block from the front end. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I also soldered the back end with a torch and soldered on the frame extension pieces. This option is mentioned in the instructions, and the frame is rock solid!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wanting to see how it looked with the drivers and cylinder block, I set up this final photo. The drivers are the On3 drivers; I’m banking on the engine operating so well that you don’t notice the drivers too much. I’ll keep following the steps as described in the instructions, hopefully some real progress will be made in the coming months. A lot of drilling and tapping is in my future …. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I recently got some momentum going on several projects. The gas stations are nearly done (more soon) and I got the frame together on the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nason"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Nason-frame-together.jpg?fit=1920%2C732&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4056,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4052\/revisions\/4056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Nason-frame-side.jpg?resize=640%2C288&ssl=1\")
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