BUFFER UPGRADE ON A LNWR D12 TIMBER WAGON

[Richard T]

I bought one of Williams Models D12 timber wagon some time ago, built it and it 's been sitting in grey primer obviously feeling lonely.
Single bolster wagons are not very useful on their own so I purchased another to keep it company.
As my interests are not really pre-grouping, I thought the pair need to be portrayed at the end of their working life, so a buffer upgrade was the only way.





Having gathered the extra bits the first task was a bit destructive, the body as supplied has dumb buffers which had to go. So out came the razor saw and wood chisel for a bit of trimming



After bending the 1mm steel adaptor plates ( which really need a bending machine so they end up all the same - there's 8 to do in all )



And drilling through the "bolt" holes with a 0.8mm drill and installing pins to position the plate then and drilling through 6mm for the buffer housing - have to be a bit careful with that hole



The finished assembly



Not quite got the height right but one end done - 3 ends to go !!!!!

[IanT]

Very nice work Richard - but I'm curious about how you made the steel parts?

Hand 'fettled' from steel strip or have they been lasered?

Regards,


Ian T

[Richard T]

Ian

The steel adaptor plates are part of Williams Models "extensive" range of accessories, they are laser cut in 1mm steel specifically for this application.
Being steel, as mentioned , they are tough to bend, but being laser cut all the 0.7/0.8mm holes all line up perfectly. Just need a bit of fettling around the edges.
Finding the bend point is really a matter of working from the buffer centre on the original dumb solebar end, and marking out from there.

Richard

[midnight miller]

Hello Richard and All

I have done one of mine the othere I am leaving origanal . To bend the plates on the one I did , I put a saw cut half way through to brake its back in effect , Also instead of letting it into the body as Mike suggests I filled it to fit on the side . More ways than one to skin a cat thought .




                                                          John