Correct buffers for a MSV 4mm

[MJI]

Just noticed that my current pile of MSVs waiting for couplings, 2 have lost buffers.

 

Parkside kit, modelled in 1980s clasp brakes.

 

What are the correct buffer please, I have quite a few from MJT

[Fat Controller]

Just noticed that my current pile of MSVs waiting for couplings, 2 have lost buffers.

 

Parkside kit, modelled in 1980s clasp brakes.

 

What are the correct buffer please, I have quite a few from MJT

I'd go for either parallel-bodied 'Dowty' type (http://www.lanarkshiremodels.com/lanarkshire%20models%20and%20supplies%20website_070.htm) or the later Oleo type(http://www.lanarkshiremodels.com/lanarkshire%20models%20and%20supplies%20website_072.htm ). One thing I remember about a lot of the ones refurbished at Barton Hill, Bristol, when I was a student, was that the buffers were often in a pale green primer/undercoat.

[Flood]

They might also be Self-contained ones as well (http://www.lanarkshiremodels.com/lanarkshire%20models%20and%20supplies%20website_029.htm). (Item changed to 1'6" type)

 

Have a check on Paul Bartlett's site to see which types are carried. Self-contained and Dowty look very similar but the Dowty has a slightly smaller diameter section at the end of the buffer body just before the buffer shank. Also Dowty buffer shanks are always shiny (like Oleo's) whereas Self-contained would be rusty like normal RCH.

 

Edited after Justin's post below.

[jjnewitt]

All the MSVs on Paul Bartlett's site are either 1'6" Self contained or Oleos. It seems that there was a mixture of 1'8" and 2'" Oleos used. This is confimed in the relevant David Larkin book. Generally those fitted with self contained buffers were built first with clasp brakes but were unfitted, the vaccumn cylinders and pipes being added later. Those with Oleos were later ones originally built fitted though some of the earlier batch recieved them. None of the wagons on Bartlett's site have Dowty's and Larkin's book doesn't mention them being fitted at all. I woud say they were rare at best. As an aside the buffer shank on the Dowty's was considerably smaller than on the self contained ones.

[MJI]

Thanks - I will check my supply

 

Martin

[MJI]

Suitable ones orders from LMS when I found my huge pile had none suitable