Western Vacuum Pipes in 00

[Swansea Castle]

I am doing up some old models of the Lima Western and was wondering whether anyone knows where I can get the correct set of vacuum pipes in 00?

 

[Mike Garwood]

Your best bet is to look on Peters Spares. Massive range.

Mike

 

[AJC]

Or to bend some wire (I use 0.7mm brass, sometimes with a wrap of very fine filament wire). Having looked at the shape of the real thing, to could simply cut away most of a whitemetal wagon vac' pipe and plug that into a hole in the appropriate place on the buffer beam.

Adam

 

[D1010]

You could have a look at the Bachmann Spares site, as the Warship pipes would probably be a good fit.

 

[adrian]

Or to bend some wire (I use 0.7mm brass, sometimes with a wrap of very fine filament wire). Having looked at the shape of the real thing, to could simply cut away most of a whitemetal wagon vac' pipe and plug that into a hole in the appropriate place on the buffer beam.

Adam

or larger gauge guitar strings - they already have the wrap of fine wire around them.