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Will L wrote: This is pretty much how most two break blocks per wheels linkages work. Understand this one and they will all make sense.

Thanks

Can't find your pivot 1 on your drawing. However. The bar which has your pivot 2 marked has another pivot at the other end where it attaches to the wagon frame. When you include that in it all works. I am really just trying to understand how the left hand brake is applied. What you are reading as a...

Can I ask what might be a basic question. I am looking at the braking mechanism on the 10Ton Midland Brake Van. I am having trouble understanding how the brakes on one side of a given wheel are applied. 10 TON GOODS BRAKE VAN Diagram No.390 Brake Detail.jpg Have I understood the pivot point correctl...

RobM wrote:Re my solitary wagon...so far have got 6 x 16 tonners completed, 2 x 24 tonners part done but waiting for under frames... plenty of time for more.
Rob

Yikes that makes my D299 8 tonners sound completely pathetic

Colin Parks wrote: The common factor was C&L Hi-Nickel Bullhead rail (and yes, it was the right way up!).

Nah ... mine was steel rail

My Bullhead was fitted the right way up .. ;) I found that depending on the spru some of the exactoscale chairs fitter easily (perhaps even a little loose) and others were quite tight and exhibited a slight bow to the base. As I said I spaced them to the sleepers, set the gauge and then flooded with...

Bob, I had a similar curvature on a fair number of my exactoscale chairs. I decided to plough ahead and see what happened. In the event I found that the Butanone softened the plastic during the bonding process such that it gripped the ply sleepers fine and took out the bow. see https://www.scalefour...

Then you leave one umbrella at the bottom of the garden when it’s stopped raining and before long you have a collection of them at one end of the garden and none at the other! Philip What you need Philip is a garden rail system with an umbrella collection facility .... then there would be an incent...

Philip Hall wrote:I can confirm that having a big railway room at the bottom of the garden with the fairies is very nice. Not quite nice on occasions like today when the rain is hammering down and the walk down there become a dash!
Philip

Umbrella

The background doesn't look like your front room any longer Chris?

If you mount them in the bearing carrier with the plane of the curvature at right angles to the plane of the carrier, and solder them in so they can’t turn, the wire will be effectively strait. Thanks Will, I have soldered the wire in as I find the carriers very flimsy and was worried about fatigue...

instead I use guitar strings which usually are near as dammit straight when removed from the packed and uncoiled. you need the bearings to sit centrally in the slot when the wagon is weighted and on the track, if they are at the top or bottom the springs won't work as intended. Thanks Keith, What T...

I have two completely unrelated questions which i hope someone will be able to help me with. The first is to do with the Bill Bedford sprung W irons. The guitar wire threads through the base of the waisted bearing carrier and then is located on either side in a pilot hole in the etch. The wire is no...

I see what you mean about the planking, now that you have brought it to our attention, it is hard to overcome the feeling of some weird sort of negative perspective a la Martin Escher! Are the planks scribed both sides of one sheet, or are there two single sided sheets laminated? Handscribed both s...

RobM wrote:Main track work now completed......

track.jpg

.....continuing with the buildings.

The up shaft looking good in position.

Was the steel work really powder blue

I think I have taken this trial D299 MR wagon build as far as I can for now ... having completed the strapping and any other details I can think of - though I am still pondering how to achieve the ring and chain for the door lock pins which I would like to represent. So the next stage is the paint s...

John Donnelly wrote:Almost there:

oooh! bound sets of the MRJ ... the perfect setting

Oh dear - big and complex subjects! I must write that book one day... meanwhile, back to lever frames... You write it ... I'll definitely read it. fascinating stuff :thumb Covered a certain amount of this as part of my History of Architecture module(specifically the impact of indutrialisation), but...

So it is worth remembering that in 1909, a mule spinner in a mill such as this, spinning medium counts of cotton, would earn around 40 shillings a week, whilst his "Little Piecer" (minimum age 13 years) would get 13s 6d. And in 1919, my old Gran was renting her 2 up, 2 down end terrace, w...

Guy Rixon wrote:IMG_5901.jpg
Tool for grinding brake shoes. The greatest diameter is 10mm. Mine came from Minicraft IIRC, but there are many suppliers.

Aha! ..... another goody to buy

That's a nice-looking wagon and rather finer around the solebars than the Slaters' equivalent. Well done! Some notes follow in reference to your numbered points. 1. The 2FS people have a cunning device for scribing planks. It's a board with a guide fixed at a slope of (IIRC) 1 in 15 to the axis of ...

Countersinking into wooden planks is quite possible, and after the bolt is tight the hole can then be filled, so nothing shows, but, so far as I know, it is not possible to countersink where there is ironwork on the inside. It was this note I was referring to - I assume that because we are talking ...

Hi Noel ... as usual thanks for the input. Answers to questions below. You don't state what you use for scribing; I use a scraperboard nib in a wooden handle meant for calligraphy pen nibs, plus a steel rule. You still have to be careful that the lines are parallel and spaced correctly, but at least...

So .... I thought I would load a couple of pics of progress so far on my first scratch build wagon ... I say scratch build but of course there are multiple elements pilfered from other sources - but at least the wagon body is primarily constructed from styrene sheet ;) The wagon is the ubiquitous MR...

Tim, I've cut glazing bars for windows at .5mm including arched windows so I see no reason why you could not cut at .75mm. If you want me to experiment on my cutter I will do so if you could email me a dxf file. I can PM you my email address if you want to go down that route. Rob Thanks Rob ... tha...