Replacement handrail knobs for NQ/LGB 2-6-2 loco

Fezwig

Fezwig

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Evening,
I have been slowly up dating my NQ 2-6-2 to HSB 21 in green, having removed the molded handrails I need some replacements, I did get some knobs from GRS but they are a bit on the big side, now thinking of some brass gauge 1 or maybe o gauge ones,
What has anybody else used?
many thanks Pete
 
Cornwall model boats are the 'go to'. In the 'links' section.
 
An 'engineering solution' is to use cotter-pins.. You can add a short length of small-bore tube, if you want to beef the 'stem' up a little..

I was going to get a load of the 'angled' ones for the Mogul / Forney cast-up.. But I was not sure I could sell enough to make it worth-while?? - I would have had to take 200 sets..
 
PhilP said:
An 'engineering solution' is to use cotter-pins.. You can add a short length of small-bore tube, if you want to beef the 'stem' up a little..

I was going to get a load of the 'angled' ones for the Mogul / Forney cast-up.. But I was not sure I could sell enough to make it worth-while?? - I would have had to take 200 sets..
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May be its how engineering terms differ, but by cotter pins do you mean split pins!
 
JimmyB said:
May be its how engineering terms differ, but by cotter pins do you mean split pins!
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I've always known them as 'cotter pins', but yes... - Now off to Google what(er) cotter really is.. ;):rolleyes:

Ah, yeers... I know those as 'roll pins'??
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Thanks all for the help, will have a delve about later, never thought of split pins, I seem to remember Hornby 00/ Wren used to use them on the boiler handrails
Thans again Pete
 
A roll pin is sprung. A cotter is usually tapered.
 
JimmyB said:
Alan, was about to say the same thing, for cotter think of the pin that held the peddle crank to the bottom bracket shaft!!
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Yep, flat and slightly wedge shaped, so as you tightened the nut, you drew the wedge up against a flat in the shaft the shaft - or, as in my case, as you over-tightened the nut, you stripped the thread :confused::confused:
 
I inherited a vintage box of small pins from my Grandfather many years ago, manufactured by Nettlefolds. I have used them for many modelling applications. I would refer to them as split pins but on the box they are clearly refered to as Cotter Pins.

David
 
David, in my 50 years of general engineering, I am surprised at the LACK of consistency for equipment, tools and engineering methodology in the UK, there is defiantly a regional thing as I have lived in most areas of England from NW - SE and NW - SW and areas in between.
 
Rhinochugger said:
Yep, flat and slightly wedge shaped, so as you tightened the nut, you drew the wedge up against a flat in the shaft the shaft - or, as in my case, as you over-tightened the nut, you stripped the thread :confused::confused:
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Yep - they did that.
 
David1226 said:
I inherited a vintage box of small pins from my Grandfather many years ago, manufactured by Nettlefolds. I have used them for many modelling applications. I would refer to them as split pins but on the box they are clearly refered to as Cotter Pins.

David
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Weird - I mean, a split pin is clearly split in half - innit ? :mask::mask:

.and you waggle either one end, or both ends around to stop 'em falling out dependant on their use. For castleated nuts, you'd bend both ends down, bur for simple retaining washers, you'd probably only bend one end - in the hope of re-using the slit pin following removal :mm:
 
Rhinochugger said:
bif........ :punch:

isn't there a name for one of those brass things that nobody uses anymore? Probably because only the government uses paper these days :devil::devil::devil::devil:
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You obviously have not dealt with a Solicitor lately!
They still use them.. And treasury tags (green plaited thread with a metal bar each end).. And eyelets (to bind Wills).. :nerd::nod::nod:
 
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