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Achieving finer wheel flanges


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I contest that. Several modellers use P87 for their own layout and thus use it (almost?) daily. Case in point: Brain Harrap :P ....

Yes I know, but I flagged up the page as useful since the general principles for turning down flanges remain much the same, whether we go P87 (as I would like) or RP25-88, etc.

 

The only other thing that I might differ on is the assertion that it is inadvisable to do it with plastic-centred wheels. Sometimes there is no other option but to work with plastic if raw wheel castings are not available. It has been successfully done in fiNe-160, and my feeling is that it should work (with sufficient bracing) in 1:87. Case in point are the 7'7" dia. drivers of the one-off 18.201, or the 6'1.5" of the ex-Bavarian S3/6 - there are no Teichmann or Weinert castings for these.

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