{"id":635,"date":"2013-10-13T13:26:46","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T12:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=635"},"modified":"2013-10-13T13:26:46","modified_gmt":"2013-10-13T12:26:46","slug":"in-interesting-sideline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=635","title":{"rendered":"In interesting sideline"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am still waiting patiently for the drawing to arrive from the NRM (now a week beyond the extra week that they said it would take). I decided to have a tidy up and re-arrange on the work bench. having spent a couple of hours doing that I thought that I would do something small to see how the new arrangement worked – I have swapped my cutting mat and glass sheet that I solder on around to give more room for cutting.<\/p>\n

My little project was these.<\/p>\n

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I have some of the very nice CPL castings in stock but I wanted to try to make something that looked a little more North Eastern in origins.<\/p>\n

They are made from brass 10ba nuts, brass washers and the pin shanks from the heads that I used for the rivets on the frames – hows that for recycling? You may wonder why brass? It was because I only had 10ba steel nuts, no washers so I thought that I would test my idea for making them in brass before buying in some steel washers.<\/p>\n

Now that I have the route to making them – which is quite easy and doesn’t involve precision drilling with small drill bits I will do a small photo sequence of how I made them.<\/p>\n

They do look a little rough around them edges when magnified so much to to the naked eye they look fine – I could do a comparison of both these and the CPLS ones later too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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