Casting Identification and Parts Check List
3 X 10” length of 0.9mm brass wire. 5 X 10” length of 0.7mm brass wire. 1 X 6” of spring steel Wire.
4 X Buffer
Heads/Shanks
4 X Buffer
Retaining
Collars
4 X Buffers
6 X Coupling links
I try to include extra castings when I make the moulds for a kit to
cover failures so hopefully you will have some spare castings.
1 X sandbox front
1 X Sandbox top
1 X Brake standard
Two types
4 X Axleguards
1 X Chimney
Bolt Head and Rivet Forming Tool
Although a very reasonable job can be done with a scriber point, a rivet forming
tool is very desirable if you are going to do a lot of kit building. These are
produced by a number of different people but I use and would recommend the
one produced by Dick Ganderton, Graskop, Dewlands Road, Verwood, Dorset,
BH31 6PN, Tel 01202 822701. It is available with a number of different sized
punches and anvils but if you were only going to get one size then I would
recommend the 7mm scale 1½” diameter. I have got ten years hard use out of
mine so far so this is an ideal tool to put onto your Christmas present list.
Folding Bars
You will find a set of
these very useful and here are details of the
set that I have made for myself, in fact I have
made three sets of different sizes. The
dimensions or materials are not critical so
make yourself a set to suit the materials you
can get hold of. The important thing is that
you can clamp the part along its entire length,
with the etched fold line just above the front
bar. Then clamp the bars in the jaws of your
vice, a couple of 1” G clamps are also useful
for long folds, and laying a steel rule at the back of the part to help transfer the pressure from your
fingers evenly, pull forward to make the fold. Once the fold is close to 90° you can finish by pressing
down on it with a block of wood and moving the block along the fold with a stroking action or by
giving gentle taps with a small hammer on the wood block. Occasionally it is necessary to emboss
bolt heads onto a part before folding, by lining the face of one of the bars with two or three layers of
masking tape, you can still clamp the part without crushing the bolt heads but you wont get such a
tight fold, so deepen the fold line with a triangular file.
Can You Help Me?
If you have enjoyed building this kit and have been satisfied with the quality, I would be most
grateful if you could recommend it to your friends and fellow modellers. Although my kits are not
perfect, I try to put a lot of time and effort into producing them. If I can get extra sales of a kit through
customer’s personal recommendation and I find that word of mouth is the best form of advertising.
This will help me to put extra time and money into developing the next kit. Hopefully this will give me
more satisfied customer to recommend my kits to their friends.
If you are not happy with this kit then please tell me. Hopefully I will then be able to help and sort
out any problem.
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