{"id":7747,"date":"2026-05-18T10:44:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T09:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7747"},"modified":"2026-05-18T10:44:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T09:44:34","slug":"mok-8f-8425-more-vacuum-ejector-pipe-shenanigans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7747","title":{"rendered":"MOK 8F 8425 &#8211; More Vacuum Ejector Pipe Shenanigans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After a reply from a gent who knows much more about the real thing than I do, my life was made easier when he said that the smaller pipe didn&#8217;t actually feed into the down vacuum pipe put was clipped to the back of it. This saved another delicate 0.4mm drilling job.<\/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\/05\/8F-Vacuum-Ejector-Pipe-2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"243\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/8F-Vacuum-Ejector-Pipe-2-1024x243.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7748\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/8F-Vacuum-Ejector-Pipe-2-1024x243.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/8F-Vacuum-Ejector-Pipe-2-300x71.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/8F-Vacuum-Ejector-Pipe-2-768x182.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/8F-Vacuum-Ejector-Pipe-2-1536x364.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/8F-Vacuum-Ejector-Pipe-2-2048x485.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/8F-Vacuum-Ejector-Pipe-2-500x118.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\/05\/8F-Vacuum-Ejector-Pipe-3-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"561\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/8F-Vacuum-Ejector-Pipe-3-1024x561.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7749\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/8F-Vacuum-Ejector-Pipe-3-1024x561.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/8F-Vacuum-Ejector-Pipe-3-300x164.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/8F-Vacuum-Ejector-Pipe-3-768x421.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/8F-Vacuum-Ejector-Pipe-3-1536x842.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/8F-Vacuum-Ejector-Pipe-3-2048x1123.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/8F-Vacuum-Ejector-Pipe-3-500x274.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\/05\/8F-Vacuum-Ejector-Pipe-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"853\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/8F-Vacuum-Ejector-Pipe-4-853x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7750\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/8F-Vacuum-Ejector-Pipe-4-853x1024.jpg 853w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/8F-Vacuum-Ejector-Pipe-4-250x300.jpg 250w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/8F-Vacuum-Ejector-Pipe-4-768x922.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/8F-Vacuum-Ejector-Pipe-4-1279x1536.jpg 1279w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/8F-Vacuum-Ejector-Pipe-4.jpg 1443w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 853px) 100vw, 853px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s not exactly clipped but it&#8217;s out of sight behind the vacuum pipe when fitted so well hidden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The observant amongst you will note, that the small pipe at the smokbox end was a casualty of my ministrations. So that will need reattaching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also, since the photos were taken I have shortened the union at the rear of the vacuum ejector which holds the pipe that goes into the cab. It&#8217;s now more &#8216;nut&#8217; like&#8230; Plus I&#8217;ve cleaned up much of the excess solder even though it&#8217;s out of sight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a reply from a gent who knows much more about the real thing than I do, my life was made easier when he said that the smaller pipe didn&#8217;t actually feed into the down vacuum pipe put was clipped &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7747\">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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mok-8f"],"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\/7747","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=7747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7751,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7747\/revisions\/7751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}