{"id":5755,"date":"2022-10-22T21:56:21","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T20:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5755"},"modified":"2022-10-22T21:56:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T20:56:21","slug":"david-andrews-princess-royal-replacement-brakes-now-fitted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5755","title":{"rendered":"David Andrews Princess Royal &#8211; Replacement Brakes now fitted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More progress has been made this week and the loco and tender brakes are now complete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Tender-brakes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"669\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Tender-brakes-1024x669.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5756\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Tender-brakes-1024x669.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Tender-brakes-300x196.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Tender-brakes-768x502.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Tender-brakes-459x300.jpg 459w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Tender-brakes.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>David Andrews Princess Royal Replacement Tender Brakes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The loco brakes were a bit more interesting in that I didn&#8217;t have to re-drill the mounting holes. However the brake hanger etches have a square hole in one end and a round one in the other so using some 1mm square bar, some tube and some 0.9mm rod I made up some mounting brackets<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/New-Out99999.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"855\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/New-Out99999-1024x855.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5757\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/New-Out99999-1024x855.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/New-Out99999-300x251.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/New-Out99999-768x641.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/New-Out99999-359x300.jpg 359w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/New-Out99999.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>David Andrews Princess Royal Loco Brakes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These fitted nicely except for the rear pair which wouldn&#8217;t fit between the rear wheelsets without touching. Not to be deterred I rounded the end of a couple of pieces of 1mm square bar and fitted that instead. I also had to shorten the brake cross beams by approximately 1.5mm either side so that the brake hangers didn&#8217;t splay out beyond the wheels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/New-Out99999-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"610\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/New-Out99999-1-1024x610.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5758\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/New-Out99999-1-1024x610.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/New-Out99999-1-300x179.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/New-Out99999-1-768x457.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/New-Out99999-1-500x298.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/New-Out99999-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>David Andrews Princess Royal Loco Brakes fitted<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_0001-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_0001-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5759\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_0001-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_0001-1-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_0001-1-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_0001-1-450x300.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_0001-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>David Andrews Princess Royal Loco Brakes fitted<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The red bits are electrical sleeve, there to retain the brake hangers until I am confident that I can solder them up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More progress has been made this week and the loco and tender brakes are now complete. The loco brakes were a bit more interesting in that I didn&#8217;t have to re-drill the mounting holes. However the brake hanger etches have &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5755\">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":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-david-andrews-princess-royal"],"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\/5755","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=5755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5760,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5755\/revisions\/5760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}