{"id":147851,"date":"2024-11-07T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T02:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=97152a21428ce12181f723962abd70ad"},"modified":"2024-11-07T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T02:30:00","slug":"airfix-brake-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=147851","title":{"rendered":"Airfix brake 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n
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It was was some trepidation that work began. I settled myself with the attitude that this was pence spent so no problem if it were to be abandoned halfway through and jumped on; or recycled back into Coke bottles.<\/p>\n

The floor was raised at one end by 2-3mm. I bent this back as best I could. I’m not a lover of under-floor ribbing on kits, but in this case it looked like I needed it. One end was welded to the bent end and then I worked my way along and plonked a 3K weight on it while it hardened.<\/p>\n

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Satisfied with this I moved onto the solebars. As with the 16 tonner 2mm holes were drilled and bearings added. Did I mention that if they were thrown that they would probably come back? I fear this will be a recurring theme to the build. Again one end welded, and as per the floor sans weight. You can clearly see the 2mm differential at the RH end pre-sticking.<\/p>\n

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 A long time ago I built (or didn’t) a kit of the QE2. The hull sides were 1\/4″ different in length. So it was here with sole bars. One was fixed and the second waggled around until I got the axles almost<\/i> parallel. It runs… but won’t win any prizes. So far, so… well just so far really.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was was some trepidation that work began. I settled myself with the attitude that this was pence spent so no problem if it were to be abandoned halfway through and jumped on; or recycled back into Coke bottles.The floor was raised at one end by 2-3m…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2285,14275,14332,2284],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-airfix","category-brakes","category-dapol-kit","category-wagons"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t