LTM 51 in HO

Detailing the boiler - Overview

After completing the detailing of the bogies, I finally started detailing the boiler cradle.

A photograph from January 2021. Until early 2025, little progress was made here, apart from the addition of the steam turret cover.

Index

First, I made a list of all the things that needed to be added.

As with the bogies, I divided the pages, this time into four.

What	Where	Left	Right	Qty
Exhaust	Top of the boiler	Middle		1
Safety valves	Top of the boiler	Middle		1
Steam dome	Top of the boiler	Middle		1
Steam turret cover	Top of the boiler, close to cab	Middle		1
Drive unit shut-off valves	Near smokebox	x	x	2
Steam bell	Near exhaust	x		1
Wash plugs	Near handrails	x (2)	x (3)	5
Air pump	Near smokebox	x		1
Regulator rod	From cab to steam dome	x		1
Door handles	Cab: front door, rear door, and side doors.	x (2)	x (1)	4
Door hinges	Front and rear door driver's cab	x		3+1
Adding lead	Boiler, coal bunkers	x	x	3
Protection bars	Criver's cab rear windows	x	x	8
Smokebox door	Smokebox			1
Hinges smokebox door	Smokebox			2
Handwheel smokebox door	Smokebox
Lubricators and pipes	Front Smokebox	x	x	2
Lubricators and pipes	Rear, coal bunkers	x	x	2
Rain strips	Roof driver's cab	x	x	2
Bell	Roof driver's cab	x		1
Roof hatches	Roof driver's cab	Middle		2
Jacks	Footplate	x	x	2x2
Ladder	Recht near driver's cab, on boiler		x	1
Builder's plates	Driver's cab			1
Number plates	Driver's cab			2
Operator's plates	Driver's cab			2

What	Where	Left	Right	Qty
Steam pipes	Middle bottom of the boiler cradle	Middle		2
Handrails	Along the boiler			1
Steam pipes	To the air pump	x		1
Handrails	On the footplate ahead of the smokebox	x	x	2
Bushes	Smokebox	x		2
Control pipes	From steam turret to various aplliances	x		5
Boiler feed water pipes	From injectors to top feeed	x	x	2
Steam blower connection	Front left of smokebox	x		1
Exhaust steam pipes bell and air pump	Smokebox	x		2
Handgrips	On steam turret cover	x	x	2
Handgrips	Coal bunkers	x	x	4
Handgrips	Rear coal bunkers	x	x	2
Handgrips	Front driver's cab		x
Handrails	On both side of the door in the driver's cab	x	x	2x2

What	Where	Left	Right	Qty
Reverser mechanism			x	1
Air tank	Middle			1
Various pipes	From air pump to air tank and one from the cab	x		2
Ashpan rod and lever	Firebox, ashpan	x		1
Steps	Driver's cab	x	x	2
Middle pipe	Below ste steam pipes			1
Air pipes	Along the boiler cradle bridge	x		1

What	Where	Left	Right	Qty
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