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Western Thunderer
Evening Roger :bowdown:

I've noticed on the fifth photo, the writing on the sole bar is upside down. Is this a usual thing ?.

Steve :cool:
 

Heather Kay

Western Thunderer
I've noticed on the fifth photo, the writing on the sole bar is upside down. Is this a usual thing ?

Where rolled steel sections came in from the steel industry, marked with the mill's name, I expect it was more common than not. If the railway works made its own steel sections, they wouldn't be branded. No-one on the shop floor was going to bother about flipping a solebar outer member just for that, I'd imagine. ;)
 

Bob Reid

Western Thunderer
As Heather said! - "British" Railways, since Isambard was a boy were clever enough to realise it was pointless re-inventing the wheel :) and bought in all of their standard rolled steel sections - channels, Tees, equal / unequal angles etc. and how they were orientated when they were symmetrical like the solebar channel was just down to how they were cut and loaded onto the drilling jigs. The railways were obviously a massive user of steel - so much so they were part of the committee's set up to standardise sections and shapes from the pre- British Standard days....
 

jamiepage

Western Thunderer
Thank you. With your photos to hand, I have been playing around with the idea of laminating up the brake gear. The prototype's single hanger per brake block (which I hope carried over to the plastic jobs) allows a main lamination per wheel which certainly simplify things when compared with double hangers.
Enough bits are now cut for a first try to see what they look like when assembled. The brake blocks should have the 'hollow' look when viewed end- on.
Jamie
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