{"id":2619,"date":"2017-03-21T19:01:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T18:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2619"},"modified":"2017-03-21T19:01:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T18:01:27","slug":"raising-the-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2619","title":{"rendered":"Raising the Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-redactor=\"1\">I managed a little more on the internals for the V4 brake van last night.<\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\">Being, by inclination and birth, a tight fisted Yorkshire man. I don&#8217;t throw much away, and sometime ago I bought a thousand 10ba brass CS screws. The problem was that when I bought them they only had them in 1 1\/2&#8243; lengths. This means that most of them that I have used so far, have needed cutting down. This has resulted in me having a few 1&#8243; lengths of 10ba studding.<\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\">Fast forward to my cleaning up one of Slaters&#8217; very nice cast Brake Standards for the V4 and I clumsily broke off the the spigot for attaching it to the floor. At first I was just going to solder it to the brass floor and be done with it but then I thought that having the floor removable for as long as possible would help with painting the inside.<\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\">So I drilled out the base where the spigot had been and soldered in a length of the aforementioned stud. A little of the solder wicked up the thread but a quick run down the thread with a 10ba die soon sorted that.<\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\">I then thought that with a bit of filing I could use a 10ba nut with some scrap etch to represent the lever for the brake cross shaft and although turning the handle doesn&#8217;t actuate the brakes it still looks the part.<\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\">It wasn&#8217;t a great leap to think that I may as well do the same with the stove to make it removable too.<\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\">\n<div id=\"attachment_2620\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=2620\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2620\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2620\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2620\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_3273.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_3273.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_3273-300x248.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_3273-768x634.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_3273-364x300.jpg 364w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2620\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Modified Slaters Brake Standard and Guard&#8217;s Stove<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2621\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=2621\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2621\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2621\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2621\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_3267.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_3267.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_3267-300x236.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_3267-768x603.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_3267-382x300.jpg 382w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2621\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Modified Slaters Brake Standard and Guard&#8217;s Stove<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I managed a little more on the internals for the V4 brake van last night. Being, by inclination and birth, a tight fisted Yorkshire man. I don&#8217;t throw much away, and sometime ago I bought a thousand 10ba brass CS &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2619\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connoisseur-ner-v4-brake-van"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2622,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619\/revisions\/2622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}