Source for small scale Aluminium chequered plate

[John McCallum 1Participant @johnmccallum1]

I,m building a Mill engine model with various engines etc and I am trying to locate a source of small scale chequered plate . Can any of you good folks suggest a supplier

Thank you

John

[John McCallum 1Participant @johnmccallum1]

[AdrianRParticipant @adrianr18614]

I just did a google for miniature chequer plate and found this site **LINK** and **LINK**

Hope it helps

Adrian

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Southworth used to do 1/10th and 1/16th scale chequer plate but like their engines it is now available from Blackgates which would probably be closer to scale than the trainset stuff.

[OldMetallerParticipant @oldmetaller]

Hi John, I don't know if this is any help as it's copper, not aluminium, but a splendid chap from the Coventry MES told me how to do this when I admired a model of his at the Large Scale Model Rail show at Leamington last year.

I put an offcut of copper water pipe into the lathe and knurled it, and whilst it was still spinning I took the sharp edges off with emery. I then opened out the pipe along the long axis, and a very crisp, smart piece of chequer plate emerged. The pipes in the picture are 15mm and 22mm.

I hope this is of some help.

John.

[not done it yetParticipant @notdoneityet]

Thinking very much outside the box – what about 3D-printing?

[Phil PParticipant @philp]

John

How much do you need ?

I have a few off-cuts that Bob Potter gave me for my model of Agnes when he was running Southworth Engines.

Phil

[John McCallum 1Participant @johnmccallum1]

Thanks to all for your help

John

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