Lamp irons & brake releases

After a couple of hours at Spencer Street to get the coverage of N & P class action (and hoping forlornly for an A) I spent another evening in the hotel working on the brake release valves, the angle iron frame for the handbrake chain pulley, and the lamp brackets.

 

Brake release valves from 0.5mm enamelled copper wire and 0.020" styrene, 1.5mm wide. Need to make sure the holes for the wire are just clear of the "fishbelly" of the underframe.

 

 

Lamp brackets from staples. Pre-drilled 0.6mm in the reinforcing ribs in the ends. Note that the prototype TRC3235 featured in AMRM Vol 4 #2 & Vol 10 #3 has the side lamp irons mounted on the second rib from the top. Other TRCs featured in Vol 10 #3 and TRC31299 stored at Broadmeadow - as featured on LC1073's flickr site - have them on the rib below i.e. third from the top, with evidence that they were relocated at some point in time.

 

 

Added the holes (presumably for lifting) at the ends of the solebars.

 

Need to research whether there was a builder's plate at the LH end on both sides, or only one, and determine how to make the brackets for the uncoupling lever, and that might have to do.