Well, not exactly. But I've done something similar with the etched phosphor bronze leaf springs on an MMP kit. Took some faff to make them work . I looked at the HH springs and they seem to have addressed one of the main issues on the MMP springs by etching out the insides of some of the leaves. My observations are on RM Web, for what it's worth.
MMP 1/108 - part 7 - more springs and a result
Ian -
Yes and so are mine - but once again you have ignored the long explanation I have made to you and so many times before on here & elsewhere in build threads. You will be hard put to have scale thickness springs that respond in the way you want. Ours are not mean't to do that and we have never said they will do it. You cannot scale mass.
Firstly they are individual springs that will look better than a casting and as I mentioned before, a further cosmetic dividend will be had by running a blade along the upper and lower edges of what will be the outer faces of each spring. All of our springs, whether 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9 leaf will work in EXACTLY the same way since only the top unit carries any load and if the ends are crimped around the wire in the shackle points correctly [something I've never seen done on any build] they will fall and rise at rail joints etc and keep all the wheels on the track at all times.
Now you can say that this is really compensation not springing and that is true but since it is the top leaf spring that is doing the work not a piece of wire hidden somewhere, they ARE, to that extent [and to that extent only] working leaf springs. Still you insist that they should work as you intend, not as we intend. Your build link does not address a problem in our kit, so much as create a new one for yourself and then overcome it.
True, we do mention Erik Olsen's work in our instructions but these do seem to require too much weight to be added to the wagon [especially in the context of a long train]. As I recall he did it on a long wheelbase covered vehicle. On a 16T Mineral wagon there is virtually no scope to add weight if running the wagon empty [as you are bound to want to do at times] unless you add it within the bays of the chassis. You would not want to do this to an MMP wagon however, as the level of chassis detail is much of the point of buying the kit in the first place and it will always look a mess.
Sorry for the partial thread hijack!
Regards
DJP/MMP
