{"id":4048,"date":"2020-06-21T13:45:52","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T12:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4048"},"modified":"2020-06-21T13:45:52","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T12:45:52","slug":"slaters-lner-brake-van","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4048","title":{"rendered":"Slaters LNER Brake Van"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\nMy order from Metalsmith arrived this week so I moved back onto the Slaters brake van build.<br>The order from Metalsmith was chiefly for 4mm x 2mm angle which I have used to make replacement stepboards in brass.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"595\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_0814-1024x595.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4043\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_0814.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_0814-300x174.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_0814-768x446.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_0814-500x291.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Replacement stepboards<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The reasons for this are twofold, they will be more resilient to handling and I can solder them to the cast brass stepboard supports provided in the kit.<br>Conversely I have swapped the cast brass buffer stocks in the kit for some spare Parkside ones of the same style which I can glue more easily to the plastic headstocks.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I aslo cut out and cleaned up the axles boxes and springs ready for fitting and ran in to a little problem.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_0002-3-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4041\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_0002-3.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_0002-3-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_0002-3-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_0002-3-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"952\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_0002_2-1024x952.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4042\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_0002_2.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_0002_2-300x279.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_0002_2-768x714.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_0002_2-323x300.jpg 323w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Slaters LNER Brake Van &#8211; Buffers and Springs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I had previously fitted some triangular (well almost) etched corner plates to the underside of the headstock\/solebars. as you can see from the photos these now prevent the spring hangers from sitting flat under the sole bars. A look at the GA reveals that the spring hangers have been cut to allow the plates to be fitted but I feel that I may have fitted them in the wrong orientation and plan to remove one of them to check how it fits with the plate turned through 45 degrees.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My order from Metalsmith arrived this week so I moved back onto the Slaters brake van build.The order from Metalsmith was chiefly for 4mm x 2mm angle which I have used to make replacement stepboards in brass. The reasons for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4048\">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":[3,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-model-builds","category-slaters-lner-brake-van-diagram-61"],"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\/4048","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=4048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4049,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048\/revisions\/4049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}