After an all to brief week in the Lakes (traveling north via Scaleforum North in Wakefield, obviously) I returned to work and the workbench this week.

First task was to build a combined keeper plate and spring assembly for the D16/3 chassis. Having cut the cosmetic springs off the bottom of the frames as I was fitting the hornguides I've now used some strips of nickel silver and some extra frame spaces to make a keeper plate that stops the axles falling out, it will ultimately be held on to the main part of the chassis by the body mounting screws.

I've also arranged springing on the axle-boxes using roughly the same method as Dave Bradwell's J39 chassis kit. A length of spring steel wire is held on the keeper plate and on a small tab soldered to the bottom of the axle-box.

Getting dangerously close to needing some wheels, but that will have to wait for an evening when one of my esteemed friends has a GW quartering jig available, that is if they are willing to come out ever again for fear of being photographed.

David