PROJECT 9
July 2003
RESTORING A HORNBY HOBBIES STEPHENSONS ROCKET
More Repairs.
I used the plastic from a stiffy disk to recreate one of the missing axle boxes
as well as to repair the other damaged one.
The o ring seals on the adapter were old and brittle. I replaced them and still had leaking.
I could not tell if the leak was in the o rings or where the plastic joins up with the metal seat.
I filled the butane canister with water and tightened in the adapter.
I pressurized the canister to see where it was leaking from. The leak was where the plastic
joins up with the metal seat! The o rings were fine.
I used an acrylic epoxy to seal the leak where the plastic joins up with the
metal seat.
The draw bar that joins the tender and engine was missing. I made a new one from
1mm iron sheeting and sprayed it gloss black.