{"id":7780,"date":"2026-05-31T09:38:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T08:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7780"},"modified":"2026-05-31T09:38:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T08:38:23","slug":"mok-8f-8425-washout-plug-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7780","title":{"rendered":"MOK 8F 8425 &#8211; Washout Plug Woes&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Having made them I figured it made sense to fit them before fitting other more vulnerable bits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not sure why since I have been concentrating on the left side of the loco so far but I started on the right hand side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All went according to plan<\/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\/Washout-Plugs-Fitted-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"549\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Washout-Plugs-Fitted-1024x549.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7781\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Washout-Plugs-Fitted-1024x549.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Washout-Plugs-Fitted-300x161.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Washout-Plugs-Fitted-768x412.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Washout-Plugs-Fitted-1536x824.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Washout-Plugs-Fitted-2048x1098.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Washout-Plugs-Fitted-500x268.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\/Washout-plugs-close-up.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"713\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Washout-plugs-close-up-1024x713.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7782\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Washout-plugs-close-up-1024x713.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Washout-plugs-close-up-300x209.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Washout-plugs-close-up-768x535.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Washout-plugs-close-up-431x300.jpg 431w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Washout-plugs-close-up.jpg 1377w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not so, on the left hand side. I can only assume that the wall thickness of the firebox castings is thinner on this side.<\/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\/Washout-Plugs-Fitted2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"449\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Washout-Plugs-Fitted2-1024x449.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7783\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Washout-Plugs-Fitted2-1024x449.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Washout-Plugs-Fitted2-300x132.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Washout-Plugs-Fitted2-768x337.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Washout-Plugs-Fitted2-1536x674.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Washout-Plugs-Fitted2-2048x899.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Washout-Plugs-Fitted2-500x219.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\/Washout-plugs-close-up2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"859\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Washout-plugs-close-up2-1024x859.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7784\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Washout-plugs-close-up2-1024x859.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Washout-plugs-close-up2-300x252.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Washout-plugs-close-up2-768x644.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Washout-plugs-close-up2-358x300.jpg 358w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Washout-plugs-close-up2.jpg 1185w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Washout-plugs-close-up3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"687\" height=\"957\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Washout-plugs-close-up3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7785\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Washout-plugs-close-up3.jpg 687w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Washout-plugs-close-up3-215x300.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 687px) 100vw, 687px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I couldn&#8217;t live with them as is so I had a choice attempt to file them down or remake them a bit shorter and put the longer ones in the spares box.<br>Since I was still pretty much set up to make more, I elected for the latter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even with doing a test example to check that I had made the correct adjustments to my measurements it still took less than half an hour to make enough for the right hand side.<\/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\/Replacement-Washout-plugs-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"409\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Replacement-Washout-plugs-1024x409.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7786\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Replacement-Washout-plugs-1024x409.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Replacement-Washout-plugs-300x120.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Replacement-Washout-plugs-768x307.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Replacement-Washout-plugs-1536x614.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Replacement-Washout-plugs-2048x818.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Replacement-Washout-plugs-500x200.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\/Replacement-Washout-plugs-Closeup.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"727\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Replacement-Washout-plugs-Closeup-1024x727.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7787\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Replacement-Washout-plugs-Closeup-1024x727.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Replacement-Washout-plugs-Closeup-300x213.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Replacement-Washout-plugs-Closeup-768x545.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Replacement-Washout-plugs-Closeup-423x300.jpg 423w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Replacement-Washout-plugs-Closeup.jpg 1138w\" 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\/Much-better.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"713\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Much-better-713x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7788\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Much-better-713x1024.jpg 713w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Much-better-209x300.jpg 209w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Much-better-768x1103.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Much-better-1069x1536.jpg 1069w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Much-better.jpg 1145w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 713px) 100vw, 713px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Much better.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","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-7780","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\/7780","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=7780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7789,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7780\/revisions\/7789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}