BS 109 Code 82 Switch point blades - For FB turnouts
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2021 10:23 pm
P4 or P87 BS 109 FB Switch Blades are perfectly practical. It just takes a practical approach and suitable tools.
The hastily prepared (and thus apologetically not great quality) scanner pictures below show the ends and undersides of code 82 model point blades for P4/P87 (and of course EM and 00 if desired ) use. The actual parts are of better precision and accuracy than the poor pictures infer.
These particular ones are my own work, but Rene' Gourley of the Proto:87 SIG published an article in a an early edition of our magazine showing some made entirely by hand filing.
The advantage of theses blades is that the FB stock rails do not require any cutting away of the rail base. Which is an obvious flaw if modelling true BS 109 or US practice.
Andy
The hastily prepared (and thus apologetically not great quality) scanner pictures below show the ends and undersides of code 82 model point blades for P4/P87 (and of course EM and 00 if desired ) use. The actual parts are of better precision and accuracy than the poor pictures infer.
These particular ones are my own work, but Rene' Gourley of the Proto:87 SIG published an article in a an early edition of our magazine showing some made entirely by hand filing.
The advantage of theses blades is that the FB stock rails do not require any cutting away of the rail base. Which is an obvious flaw if modelling true BS 109 or US practice.
Andy