Having sorted the water scoop thoughts turned to the brakes as being the last major items to fit. This is where life got a little interesting. As I mentioned previously the kit is “borrowed” from my Just Like the Real Thing, Rebuilt Scot kit. According to the JLRT instructions, the brakes for the Royal Scot tenders differed from the usual Stanier tenders being much simplified.

Below is a snip from the instructions illustrating the simplified version.

Fortunately, JLRT did provide an etch for the linkages, albeit they didn’t include any cross beams. Presumably this was intended for use with another kit which included a Stanier tender but I can’t think of one in the JLRT range.

This left making up some cross beams. I started with some 2mm brass rod and having cut three lengths I turned a spigot on each end to fit through the holes in the brake hanger castings.

Next, I created a small jig which is essentially a rectangular block to hold the cross beam rods to allow me to machine parallel flats on each end.

Finally, for the session, I machined a replacement brake cylinder.