Brass strip

Brass strip: Anyone know how narrow these strips go down to - at least from easy to obtain/commonly stocked UK ranges, I don't mean thickness/gauge but actual width.

I'm looking for some around the 3mm (now that we're metricated ) mark, around 1/2mm thick that can be cut in to lengths of up to 3" ... sorry I slipped there, say 75mm. I'm making linkages and flattened rail bends as you flatten it and as for making thin parallel cuts in brass sheet ... well that's best left to the imagination!

Yes, I know I could go and look in my various my catalogues but they're in the garage and I'm in my dressing gown. :-)

About 1mm is the smallest but 3mm is available in the racks of KS brass in most model shops

"Trev" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@pipex.net:

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Cheers, I thought that I'd be ok, I can go to bed now and sleep soundly.

I've been laying track all afternoon and as is usual I changed the plan half way through only to discover that my revised plan (about the 50thth!!! for this section of track) put a few sets of points to close to cross memebers and the like.

"Trev" wrote

I thought all K&S products were produced in Imperial measures?

John.

So he will have to use 3.2mm

Mainly Trains do all that.

John Turner said the following on 23/04/2007 00:07:

They are - the Americans haven't really caught up with this metric malarkey yet. But then again, nor have I :-)

And Eileen's Emporium.

Jim.

And should you be anywhere near Norwich, you can buy brass and other metal items (steel rod for shafts, etc) in metric sizes from ModelMarque. Not sure what range it is, but it's dead handy to have the option. MM doesn't do railway stuff, it specialises in RC planes/kites/cars, so is a handy source for scratchbuilding bits from other disciplines. The shop's round the back of Castle Mall, I never remember the name of the road. (Despite shopping there for decades, I still navigate round Norwich with a map and a remembered set of landmarks - it's an utterly disorienting town built on a spiral of anti-matter).

Tony Clarke

"Trev" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@pipex.net:

An 1/8th 'll be close enough. :-)

But seriously, after having a little play today it suddenly dawned on me that I had all the brass strip I could use ... a collection of old and now empty frets including those from a 7mm Signal Cabin I made up as a display model have provided all the strip I need.

Have you tried buying a drill bit these days? Great fun. Apparently I need a

(kim)