Michael Edge

Tags are placed to avoid damage/distortion in the etch, they are almost all placed in positions where they can be removed with good quality snips. I tack fit the footplate angles while holding them on with fingers, if they were a fold down from the lower footplate there would be a small gap at the top of the angle (very difficult to fill). All complaints about the location of the battery boxes should be addressed to North British.... Michael Edge

That answers my question, rsu and solder paste is definitely not the way to do this, most solder pastes have very active (and corrosive) flux in them. Phosphoric acid is much safer, also your rsu heats everything up, what you want is local heat (quickly) just around the nut. Michael Edge

You seem to be having a lot of trouble soldering the nuts to the footplate top, I don't knowwhat sort of soldering iron/flux you are using but the method I use gives no trouble at all. Some grease under the footplate helps but is not essential, I bolt the parts together, run a little flux (phosphoric acid) around the nut and touch the soldering iron to the side of the nut and footplate. The solder quickly flashes round the nut as long as enough heat is applied (40w iron for this) and the screw can then be removed. We supply steel screws and brass nuts to make this easier and they are the best quality available (and quite expensive) Michael Edge

The beams are supposed to be fitted against the frames, no mention is made of adding bearings as in this kit they are doubled, this gives adequate bearing surface. If bearings are added they should be on the inner face. I have found that using screws for these pivots leads to greater wear from the screw thread turning in the frames, pins or rivets are better. Your unidentifiable frame spacer is in fact a scrap piece, the original drawing was modified to shorten one of the spacers, to preserve the tags this piece was left in. Michael Edge