7mm Richards P48 US Thread

[richard carr]

I have been spending quite a bit of time in Chicago recently, I'm back there agai now so I haven't had too much time to work on models.

I did acquire this on Ebay a few weeks ago a 2600 gallon EMD fuel tank





The MTH EJ&E GP38s come with a much larger fuel tank than they should have.



The real thing has the 2600 gallon tank



So the plan it fit this new tank to the model and fit a new speaker into the tank.

I'm also trying to draw a tank in Fusion, this is how far I've got. Jim very kindly provided me with drawings for the tank, so the brass one isn't 100% accurate by any means. It was challenge drawing the end profile in Fusion trying to get everything properly dimensioned.




Finishing this should keep me busy while I'm here.

 

[richard carr]

So this week I have been busy drawing, if you really want to learn a CAD package you need to draw something for real



So this is how far I've got, I've added the fuel filler and the fuel gauge and some internal supports to stiffen the tank.
The object above it is a Tang Band speaker as that is want I want to fit inside the tank and some of those supports will probably need to be modified so it fits. Both the tank ends have been turned off in these images.

And if looking at that photo you are thinking that it's not going to fit, I thin this one shows that it will.