Wheel shorting for split axles

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Wheel shorting for split axles

Postby jon price » Fri Nov 09, 2012 11:45 am

Hi

I'm sure I saw etched spiders for shorting Alan Gibson Wheels for split axle use, but I've no idea where? Anybody know?

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Re: Wheel shorting for split axles

Postby Paul Willis » Fri Nov 09, 2012 11:58 am

jon price wrote:Hi

I'm sure I saw etched spiders for shorting Alan Gibson Wheels for split axle use, but I've no idea where? Anybody know?

Jon Price


Scalefour Stores?

" Driving Wheel Axles
BB5 Bill Bedford, etched brass shorting wires for 1/8" axles £2.00 1 pkt
BB6 Bill Bedford, etched brass shorting wires for 2mm axles £1.60 1 pkt"

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Re: Wheel shorting for split axles

Postby jon price » Fri Nov 09, 2012 12:20 pm

Thanks Flymo, I knew I was missing something.
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Re: Wheel shorting for split axles

Postby Tim V » Fri Nov 09, 2012 3:58 pm

The EM gauge society do them as well, slightly superior to the Bill Bedford ones.
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Re: Wheel shorting for split axles

Postby Paul Willis » Fri Nov 09, 2012 4:06 pm

Tim V wrote:The EM gauge society do them as well, slightly superior to the Bill Bedford ones.


And they say that _we_ have an attitude problem ;-)

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Re: Wheel shorting for split axles

Postby ScottW » Fri Nov 09, 2012 5:14 pm

jon price wrote:Hi

I'm sure I saw etched spiders for shorting Alan Gibson Wheels for split axle use, but I've no idea where? Anybody know?

Jon Price


Brassmasters also do an etch:

http://www.brassmasters.co.uk/accessories.htm

Regards,

Scott

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Re: Wheel shorting for split axles

Postby Tim V » Fri Nov 09, 2012 5:36 pm

Flymo748 wrote:
Tim V wrote:The EM gauge society do them as well, slightly superior to the Bill Bedford ones.


And they say that _we_ have an attitude problem ;-)

Flymo

The reason why they are superior has been covered elsewhere on this forum....
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Re: Wheel shorting for split axles

Postby Paul Willis » Fri Nov 09, 2012 9:01 pm

Tim V wrote:
Flymo748 wrote:
And they say that _we_ have an attitude problem ;-)

Flymo

The reason why they are superior has been covered elsewhere on this forum....


Alas and alack, but mine was a mere passing reference to L-Space...

http://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/index.php/Pune

Have a very good evening,
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