Michael Clark

Masokits Masterbits Range

Catalogue issue 15, 2009

10.00 - Coach Detailing Components

ITEM No. DESCRIPTION PRICE - £
10.01

Standard Gangway Unit 
These are now being used by The Pendon Museum and each has the parts to enable one of the following types to be built:
(See illustrations from review by Guy Williams in MRJ  64 here).

· GWR Bracket hung, Single or Double Scissor types
· LMS Bracket hung and Semi-rigid Scissor types
· Midland Single or double scissor and semi-rigid scissor types.
· BR Single and double scissor types (as fitted to DMU's)

All the scissor types are fully working in their correct sense and the locking handles, which suit the earlier types, can be made to work. They are a bit of a fiddle to make.  The kit contains the etched brass parts, paper fold-up flexible sides and crepe paper for the tarpaulin top. Wire and pins are needed to complete:

(For a review of these units, see the Model Railway Journal No. 64 & 'The 4mm Coach part 2' by Stephen Williams)		 5.00
10.02 BR Mk I Gangway:
These are simple to build and work like the real thing with the bottom of the unit sprung. It has a scale projection from beyond the end of the coach and also has an open end so you can see through it to the door at the end of the coach.  The minimum radius it will go round is about 3' 0". Coupling distances must be set  accurately to get the faceplates of adjoining coaches in contact without undue pressure being exerted..
The kit includes the etched brass parts, crepe paper for the top tarpaulin, foam strip, pins and 0.010" wire for the springs.  1 pair per fret.		 5.00
10.03 Pullman Gangway:
This is identical in design and content to the BR Mk 1 gangway described above and is suitable for Southern coaches of the Bullied and late Maunsell period and LNER coaches (modifications are needed for some Gresley coaches).		 5.00
10.04 Bogie Coach Brakes:
Provides brake and other underframe detail for bogie coaches. 		 3.00
10.05 Additional Coach Brakes:
This fret enables more than one coach to be detailed by the above coach brake fret as it provides a further set of the parts which do not have spares on the above fret. A few of these frets plus one of the large frets detailed above will allow a number of coaches to be detailed		 2.00
10.06 Coach Glazing Retainers:
Intended for use with etched brass coaches this is a fold up which retains the glass in the coach side  without glue. It is ESSENTIAL to use a resistance soldering device to solder these in place. Fret contains enough parts for one average length coach..		 3.00
10.07 Coach Door Droplights:   
These are a fold-up which holds the glazing securely in the coach door without the use of glue. They also hold the glazing in place between the coach doors.
Now these are NOT for the faint-hearted. Patience and some very nifty work with a soldering iron is required. Suitable for coaches from about 1890 onwards. Fret contains 8 droplights.		 2.50
10.08 BR Mark 1 Coach Detailing:
Intended for use with Bachmann coaches, they provide additional brake and underframe detail and includes oval buffer heads to enable sprung buffers to be made. 
One coach can be detailed from each fret.		 1.50
10.09 Gangwayed Coach Coupling Unit:
An eccentric clip-in device for coupling coaches together in sets and also gives an impression of vacuum pipes being connected.  The fret also contains 2 sets of screw couplings for the train ends. 

Jigs for forming the 'hook' are included on the fret and one set of 8 coaches or 2 shorter rakes can be made up with one fret. The etch only is provided  wire and pins are needed to complete.

 4.00
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