Thank you Ozzyo for a fascinating picture.
Who can offer a suggestion for the lever arrangement that is driven by movement of the axlebox in the slides? My guess, given the slot in the side of the tender tank, is that the lever arrangement is coupled to the pick-up stuff so that the pick-up is at a constant height above rail-head (although not allowing for tyre wear).
regards, graham
Hello Graham,
I've enlarged the photo of the exchanger, looking behind the tender side sheet it looks like there may be a screw adjuster fitted there.
I would not have thought that the tender would have moved up and down enough to justify this arrangement in normal running. So could it be to allow for the weight between a full and an "empty" tender?
It looks like it was forgotten about in later life L.M.S. Etc and B.R. days, So it looks like the gap at the front of the catcher arm was enough to compensate for any movement.
This may have been in the very early days of these been fitted and it was just belt and braces?
Another question for you all how did they bring the arm in? As in that position it's well out of gauge!
On the later ones they were hinged. It must have been fun getting the token off the arm and fitting the one for dropping down.
OzzyO.
You could weigh that pile of waste etch in as scrap and afford another MOK kit 
will there be a chance to see any of these beauties at Telford so I can drool on them