Post by heyfordian18 on Feb 26, 2006 18:38:17 GMT
moving on from my introduction to 5" steam with the Modelworks 14xx, I have started to construct Don Young's design for the Talyllyn loco Tom Rolt. I am struggling with lack of detail on the drawings for the main leaf springs. Anyone out there built or running a Tom Rolt or know someone who has please?The drawings show only a part of the top leaf, from 1/2" x 0.036" material. There is no mention of how many leaves are required, although the spring buckles have a 9/16" slot which would hold 15 leaves. That seems a lot. The GA drawing shows 9 leaves, which would only fill slightly more than half the slot.
All words of wisdom will be appreciated.