If you look on the Reeves site under springs there are two prices for apparently identical springs the higher price ones are in 12's the cheaper in 10's, it is not clear until you actually click on the item. which might explain why i bought 20 springs!

Dave

In the early days of the London Underground, wasn't there an experimental 2-5-2 intended for use on the Circle line?

Hi Dave

Just had a look at the Simplex book and Martin Evans is silent on the subject of springs as far as I can see, certainly nothing in the section dealing with the rolling chassis. The springs are very easy to shorten on the bench grinder, so you could buy the longer ones and shorten them once you have the axleboxes mounted in the frames.

Will need adjusting once the loco is completed and standing on it's own six wheels at it's finished weight, so final trimming and adjustment can be done then.

No good looking for spring spec in book or on drawings, Evans never specified anything for the springs. Lee springs will have something suitable in their on line catalogue, only downside is that they are not particularly cheap.

Coil spring design is not easy or straightforward.

You could try Vincent Springs. They are, or were, in Yaxley, near peterborough, as far as I know.

Withe the dimensions (free and compressed length ) and loads, they might be able to come up with somethging that suits

Howard

Do they have a minimum order charge? Lee Springs sell direct, but expensive for small numbers