Yesterday morning saw the brakes fitted. I did need to make a couple of brake adjusters for two reasons. One being that the suppling casting looked a bit over scale although I can see why, as it’s designed to be fitted in between two upright pieces of etch. The second and ultimately more fundamental is that I only have one of said castings and I need two. I added a piece of rod that fits between a clevis casting and rather than mess about trying to mill flats on something so thin, I elected to squash them in pliers and tidy that up a little with a file.

This shot shows the difference between the casting that I have and the replacements.

Plus, the obligatory shot with a 5P piece for scale.

Those made, it didn’t take long to solder all the brakes up and make it look the part.

Lastly, I made up the JLRT LMS style coupling. Although I managed to get it all together as it should, (without soldering anything up solid), I even made the “tommy bar” moveable. I did have to turn a new pin to go through the top links and the hooks as the casting was just a touch too short