Unlike most of the castings in the kit which are really good the Westinghouse and vacuum through pipes were not so good so having checked my stock and finding that I didn’t have any cast ones to hand, I decided to make some. Once fitted and painted they should look the part.
Home made Westinghouse Pipes
They are made from 1.6mm brass rod, brass beading wire, some 2.2mm nickel rod drilled out to create the collars at each end of the wire bound section and some 10thou nickel sheet riveted and cut into strips with my guillotine.
The door dampers also need some way to retain them once the body is fitted to the chassis so again 10 thou nickel sheet riveted and cut into strips.
Door Damper Brackets – NER Diag 67
It needed a bit of experimentation with the rivet spacing because I needed the hollows at the back of the rivets to fit over half etched rivets already in place on the body side.
