{"id":7611,"date":"2026-03-15T11:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T10:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7611"},"modified":"2026-03-15T11:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T10:43:10","slug":"hemingway-finger-plate-a-few-more-parts-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7611","title":{"rendered":"Hemingway Finger Plate &#8211; A Few More Parts Made"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The next part to make was the &#8216;finger&#8217; which grips the parts to be machined or drilled.<\/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\/2026\/03\/Finger-for-Finger-Plate-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"960\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Finger-for-Finger-Plate-2-1024x960.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7612\" 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http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Finger-for-Finger-Plate-500x267.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/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\/2026\/03\/Finger-Plate-WIP-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"895\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Finger-Plate-WIP-1-1024x895.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7615\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Finger-Plate-WIP-1-1024x895.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Finger-Plate-WIP-1-300x262.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Finger-Plate-WIP-1-768x671.jpg 768w, 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Plus assorted drill bushings sizes yet to be determined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next part to make was the &#8216;finger&#8217; which grips the parts to be machined or drilled. Followed by the Rocker plate All that remain are the knob for the Jack Screw and the &#8216;Nut&#8217; to tighten the rocker plate &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7611\">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":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hemingway-toolroom"],"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\/7611","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=7611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7617,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7611\/revisions\/7617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}