Dog Star
Western Thunderer
To put this request into a historical context, one may consider that there are four phases of the history of the Exactoscale brand to date, being:-
* Exactoscale under the ownership of Bernard Weller;
* Exactoscale under the ownership of Len Newman / Andrew Jukes;
* Exactoscale as a brand offered through C&L Finescale (in any of its incarnations);
* Exactoscale as a brand subsequent to the removal of the brand from C&L Finescale.
In the beginning Bernard Weller developed the FASS method of springing axleboxes where FASS stands for "Fixed Axlebox Suspension System"... where the axles move up/down within an axlebox which is fixed to the axleguard. Each wheel bearing was "sprung" by a cradle behind an axleguard, the design of cradle being dependent upon the prototype axleguard dimensions - hence FASS etchings carry a half-etch identifier with "AX9" identifying the axleguard prototype and "C9" identifying a cradle (the use of "9" is to signify a number). The range was sold as a sprung axleguard for a specific prototype where the packet contained the appropriate axleguard and the corresponding cradle.
As there were more "axleguards" in the range than there were "cradles" then there was a concordance between axleguard etches and cradle etches - I need details of the concordance so that I can untangle and identify a box of raw etches, that is there is no packaging information and I shall have to rely on the half-etch "AX" / "C" markings to make sense of the jumble.
I did have a single sheet of A4 paper, provided by Bernard Weller, which gave drawings of the axleguards (identified by prototype usage) and details of the corresponding AX / C numbers. I have lost the data and so I am asking WTers for their help with either a copy of that sheet or details of the C numbers that go with specific AX prototypes.
I believe that Bernard Weller did produce a catalogue of items that he could supply... I have never seen that catalogue. If any WT has a copy of the Exactoscale catalogue from the Bernard Weller days then I shall be pleased to hear from them.
thank you and regards, Graham
* Exactoscale under the ownership of Bernard Weller;
* Exactoscale under the ownership of Len Newman / Andrew Jukes;
* Exactoscale as a brand offered through C&L Finescale (in any of its incarnations);
* Exactoscale as a brand subsequent to the removal of the brand from C&L Finescale.
In the beginning Bernard Weller developed the FASS method of springing axleboxes where FASS stands for "Fixed Axlebox Suspension System"... where the axles move up/down within an axlebox which is fixed to the axleguard. Each wheel bearing was "sprung" by a cradle behind an axleguard, the design of cradle being dependent upon the prototype axleguard dimensions - hence FASS etchings carry a half-etch identifier with "AX9" identifying the axleguard prototype and "C9" identifying a cradle (the use of "9" is to signify a number). The range was sold as a sprung axleguard for a specific prototype where the packet contained the appropriate axleguard and the corresponding cradle.
As there were more "axleguards" in the range than there were "cradles" then there was a concordance between axleguard etches and cradle etches - I need details of the concordance so that I can untangle and identify a box of raw etches, that is there is no packaging information and I shall have to rely on the half-etch "AX" / "C" markings to make sense of the jumble.
I did have a single sheet of A4 paper, provided by Bernard Weller, which gave drawings of the axleguards (identified by prototype usage) and details of the corresponding AX / C numbers. I have lost the data and so I am asking WTers for their help with either a copy of that sheet or details of the C numbers that go with specific AX prototypes.
I believe that Bernard Weller did produce a catalogue of items that he could supply... I have never seen that catalogue. If any WT has a copy of the Exactoscale catalogue from the Bernard Weller days then I shall be pleased to hear from them.
thank you and regards, Graham
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