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updated 1 January 2023
New or updated items
CSB plot for L&Y Class 23 saddle tank added
CSB plot for Kitson 'Consett A class' added
Deflection of beams
Some pages on the theoretical and technical aspects of springing
Scalefour Digest
Two sections on some fundamentals
Scalefour Digest 1.2
P4 Track and Wheel Standards
Scalefour Digest 41.0
The principles of model locomotive suspension
3rd and 4th rail dimensions and settings
An illustrated and dimensioned guide to conductor rails
Useful data
Bearing and axle interfaces for coaches and wagons
BR diesel and electric bogie loco wheel and wheelbase information (not DMUs or EMUs)
BA screw tap and clearance sizes
Conductor Rail Supports component notes
Easing the traverse through switches
Protofour – a chronology
Prototype pre-nationalisation bullhead track turnout data
Standard Wire Gauges to metric and imperial
Assessment of bore fit on a shaft
Workshop practice
Introduction
Marking out metal
How to make a cheap scrawker
Drills, and how to sharpen them
A series of articles and practical hints for the newcomer wishing to get involved with kit and scratch building. The more experienced may gain ideas too.
Some work in progress on Tony Wilkins' layout
(a few progress pictures)
Pictures at exhibitions
From Dawn Till Dusk
(pics from Scaleforum 2006)
Livery information
LSWR and SR liveries
2nd generation multiple unit bogies and Bill Bedford plastic gearboxes
Drilling jig for the consistent setting of Scalefour Society conductor rail support components in trackwork
Micromotor suite
Some pages centred around the use of Nigel Lawton micromotors
Axle-hung motors
Axle-hung traction motor
Axlehung motors on a Class 31
Bachmann 108 remotoring
Low profile motor units
Micromotor drives for D/EMUs
The content of these pages is likely to be rejigged in the future.
Constructional articles
2nd generation multiple unit bogies
Axle-hung motors
Axle-hung traction motor
Axlehung motors on a Class 31
Axle-weighing jig
Bachmann 108 remotoring
Bachmann 57xx Pannier using Ultrascale drop-in wheelsets
(this is a direct link to a pdf hosted on the Ultrascale website)
Ballrace bearings for a tender
Bill Bedford 14:1 gearboxes
Bill Bedford 5'6" freight bogie
Bill Bedford Class 31 chassis
Bill Bedford coach bogie construction
Bill Bedford Midland 2P 4-4-0 chassis
(bogie only at this stage)
Bill Bedford sprung W-irons
BR diagram 1/204 vans
BR steel-sided Lowfits
BR plank-sided Shock Open
BR diagram 1/218 and 1/220 Shocvans
BR Class 07 0-6-0 diesel-electric shunter
BR Class 14
BR Vanwide (Parkside)
Brassmasters' sprung hornblocks
Cambrian SR 25-ton brake van
Class 2P sprung chassis
Class 31 sprung chassis
Comet pony truck springing
'Coronation' 0-4-0 class loco
Constant velocity couplings
Drilling crankpin holes in Gibson wheels
CSB gallery
Dedicated voltmeter and ammeter conversion from Maplins' DMMs
D/EMU spine
Drilling jig for setting conductor rail supports
Equalising sprung bogie with ballrace bearings
Exactoscale gearbox assembly
Ex-private-owner mineral wagons
Fitting a CSB to a High Level Models Pannier chassis
Fitting RTR rods to RTR chassis
Fulgurex point motor wiring
GER Lowmac
GN buffer stops
GWR iron cattle wagon
GWR 'Toad' brake van
Heljan class 47 being fitted with an ATC
High Level Kits hornblocks
Hornby West Country conversion to P4
Hymek (dismantled)
Ivatt Class 2MT
Kadees for Mk1 coaches
LNER 12T ply-sided Fruit Van
Low profile motor units
Making all-metal wheels
Masokits bogies
Memory wire brake application and construction
Micromotor drives for D/EMUs
Pinpoint axle driller for plastic wagons
Pinpoint pusher
Pendlenton drive bogies
Prototype information on some BR-period vans
Q1 conversion to P4
Red Panda BR clasp-braked underframe
Signalling for Elcot Road
Silicone tubing and balls, for constant velocity joints (UJs)
Simple lighting circuit
Simple re-wheeling of wagons for P4/S4
Slaters' Midland Railway 4-wheel brake van
Sprung drawbars for wagons
Stylus-style pickups
P4 trackwork construction
Tube stock bogies
Variations on a High Level Kits 14xx 0-4-2T chassis
Wagon buffers
Weathered wagons
Working wagon brakes
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