Diesel Air Filters

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I am scratch building a South Australian Railways Class 500 loco, one of which is shown below. On each side I need to include the six air filters shown as black rectangles. I tried using flyscreen mesh to cover them but the mesh density is too low with 1.2mm between wires. Can anyone suggest a material with which to make these?

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Peter Lucas
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Moonraker said:
I am scratch building a South Australian Railways Class 500 loco, one of which is shown below. On each side I need to include the six air filters shown as black rectangles. I tried using flyscreen mesh to cover them but the mesh density is too low with 1.2mm between wires. Can anyone suggest a material with which to make these?

Regards
Peter Lucas
MylocoSound
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I just wonder if the dress making fabric Tulle (or Tule), which is a fine mesh might do. The wife was throwing some offcuts away many moons ago and I thought it would make a good mesh!
 
I've used the mesh sheet which comes with Isopon body glass-fibre repair kits for all sorts of things. Our local motorists discount parts store sells it on it's own.
 
If you can't source it at a sensible price in upside-down land let me know much you would need and I'll have a look in my 'bits' box to see if there's anything suitable I could post to you.

Mike.

Found some. Having read your initial post this looks to be far too coarse. Sorry.

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This may sound silly but we have some kind of nylon mesh (therefore thin) between the cover and extractor fans of our toilets, surely available commercialy?
When we moved in I had to vacuum clean them as they were full of dust!
 
Thanks for the suggestions guys. I will follow them up.

In the meantime, I think I will start a new thread on this model.

Regards
Peter
 
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