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  1. Paul Cram
    70 degree solder wont adhere to brass which is why it needs tinning with 145. 145 will adhere to whitemetal its more about avoiding melting the casting. I don't touch the casting with the iron and use a standard 25 watt iron.
  2. Paul Cram
    I have a Midland Brake Van to build. It is a D&S kit and they are good kits. My first etched kit was the D&S GC brake van which went together easily. Just be careful with the instructions and check which end is which (I didn't and got it wrong but easliy corrected) as they tend to be brief. i'm looking forawrd to building it when I have cleared a number of other builds off the bench.
  3. Paul Cram
    Bottom of page 129
  4. Paul Cram
    Appropriate for a kettle
  5. Paul Cram
    The coal drops at Richmond didn't have the rail on wooden baulks but girder rail dircectly on the uprights. Picture in Branchline terminii
  6. Paul Cram
    I solder all my white metal axleboxes to brass W irons using 145 solder. I carry the solder to the W iron and let it flow. I try noy to touch the white metal casting but allow the flux to draw the solder under it.
  7. Paul Cram
    Have you read this thread?
  8. Paul Cram
    None oif the wheels I have bought recently are drilled. 4'7 NER and 5' NER
  9. Paul Cram
    Masokits do a diamond frame bogie
  10. Paul Cram
    Here is one I made from an ABS kit
  11. Paul Cram
    Thanks Mick, the only bit I am unsure of now is the base of the support on the footplate. I think it mau be curved looking at the photos. It is nice to have clear photos that can be en;larged as the published ones tend to be small and dark.
  12. Paul Cram
    Looks like a NER quad (ex WD) tatlow vol2 page 113
  13. Paul Cram
    Thanks Mick that is very helpful.
  14. Paul Cram
    Thanks Mick, It does help a bit, clear photos ar hard to come by. It looks like it has a beading down the edge and a semicicular base on the footplate.
  15. Paul Cram
    Does anyone know of a drawing of the bracket holding the westinghouse pump on there engines? It look similar to that on the J77 (bto rebuilds).
  16. Paul Cram
    I bought the high level J72 Chassis and which was on offer including the motor for £48 at Scaleforum. When you take into account it has a custom gearbox the chassis itself is cheaper than any of the alternatives and far superior.
  17. Paul Cram
    The chassis doesn't use springing. There should be a litle movement up and down on the driving wheels. Did the wheels move freely before you got the grub screw for the motor? Did you use a quartering tool or did you do it by eye? The gauge has nothing to do with whether compensation works. When you say there may be a short, what pickup system are you using? Are the pickups touching the chassis? Paul
  18. Paul Cram
    Len Newman was designing the chairs for Bernard so they weren't back to the original K&L design but smooth based.
  19. Paul Cram
    The only chairs I know of were the original K&L design by Len Newman. They had 2 pips which slotted into 2 holes on one side of the sleeper and 2 slors in the other side designed to allow gauge widening. The sleepers were only produced for P4. I still have a number of these somewhere. When Alan gibson took over the marketing of them the pips were removed to allow any 4mm gauge to be constructed.
  20. Paul Cram
    The top coat looks as though the paint was a bit too thick. A thinner caoat may produce better results.
  21. Paul Cram
    Today I have been adding the hand rails and drilling the hole for the clack valves on this NER class B. The handrails aren't fixed as I will put the final ones in when evrything else is finished to avoid damaging them
  22. Paul Cram
    The Bonnyface was the only Midland passenger service to Hawes. All othe passenger trains were North Eastern running between Garsadale and Northallerton.
  23. Paul Cram
    For the rivets I used a centre punch tapping lightly with a hammer until closed enough noy to come apart
  24. Paul Cram
    I wuld have extebded the wing rails to the joint to avoid the short lengths. We've had problems with short lenghts in the past and now do everything to avoid them.
  25. Paul Cram
    Yes Kirk did a push pull coach.
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