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Does anyone supply either a jig or brass castings/etchings for the curly J-shaped Midland Railway commode handles in 4mm scale as found on their 6 wheel carriages? - I've got 5 carriages from the Slater's kits via Cooper Craft waiting for finishing. Don't really fancy bending up 50 or so of the things free-hand!  

 

This sort of thing. 

 

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The ones originally supplied in the kit still seem to be still available directly from Slaters - item 4200.

 

Thanks! I really wasn't expecting Slaters to still be doing any 4mm rolling stock bits and never thought to look there - although at over £1 per door, fitting out 5 coaches is going to be a bit pricey! 

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Thanks! I really wasn't expecting Slaters to still be doing any 4mm rolling stock bits and never thought to look there - although at over £1 per door, fitting out 5 coaches is going to be a bit pricey! 

You could all ways make a jig to reproduce the handles, easily done out of brass plate/rod. Would ensure uniformity and once you've made up the jig quite quick and simple to batch produce.

 

Best

 

Guy

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Updated the jig and got something approximating the handrails.

 

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The jig is made from brass sheet with a 0.9mm wire soldered to it. I put 2 wires one on top of the other for extra height (with just 1 height of wire the handrail kept slipping over the top as I was bending it. There is a 0.5mm hole just left of the top of this wire. Further down another wire forms a channel with this (not very obvious in the pictures). There is another 0.5mm hole just above and left of this. There is a cutout on the right side. The brass is laminated onto a bit of hardboard. Apologies for the bluriness in some of the photos.

 

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First I put a 90 degree bend into the end of a piece of 0.45mm wire (0.33 might actually be better) and push the end into the top hole.

 

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And the wrap it around the top, pulling it tight.

 

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I then take it out and put the end in the lower hole, running along the channel

 

 

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And wrap it tightly around the bottom.

 

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Then I fold it down against the cut-out.

 

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Finally remove the wire from the jig, tidy it up with snipe nose pliers, cut off and insert into the coach.

 

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