{"id":7668,"date":"2026-04-17T12:05:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7668"},"modified":"2026-04-17T12:05:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:05:55","slug":"connoisseur-lner-single-bolster-wagons-pretty-much-ready-for-paint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7668","title":{"rendered":"Connoisseur LNER Single Bolster Wagons – Pretty Much ready for paint."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Inspired by a friends recent photos of his Connoisseur Bolster wagons I kicked myself up the backside and finished my pair of jim’s bolster wagons that I have been slowly making as a demo piece at shows last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As these things go I took the pretty much completed wagons along to show a friend who has recently finished a lowfit and he noted that my axle guards splayed out slightly, which I confess I hadn’t noticed. But as I said to him, I would rather find these things during the construction phase than after painting so I set to and removed one axle guard from each axle choosing to use the unbraked side as being easier to get at. One of the bearings wasn’t seated properly so I deepened the hole. However they still looked splayed out. so I filed the pin points off both ends of the axle. This fixed the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As ever this didn’t go quite as smoothly as I’d hoped as on two of the four axle guards castings that I removed, I did managed to damage them. The first was just one of the spring hangers broke off after I stuck a screw drive under it to prise as I heated up the body to soften the low melt. As luck would have it, when making some different anvils for my Leakey rivet press I had done some test rivet strips and one of those had just the right spacing to make some new hanger brackets from. A short stub of 1.6mm rod in between and we have this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sadly on the other one I wasn’t quite so lucky in that in a moment of inattention with the microflame I also melted the spring as well as the hanger. So I set to and made a pair of hangers and the spring to go in between.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On a side note I also fitted the D plates with the microflame. I tinned the backs with 100 degree solder and placed them on the solebar. Then I wafted the flame on it’s lowest setting along the bottom of the sole bar until I noted the D plate starting to settle then I took the heat away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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