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7 mm/ft scale
B496
GWR 4-4-0 Armstrong driving wheels.

7′ 1″ diam., 22 rect spokes, rectangular inner rim, 3«″ apparent tread.
Hub 16″ face dia., 1″ out from the tyre.

Casting: 49.6 mm tread dia., 45.5 mm i/d., hub 0.6 mm out from the tyre.

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Scan of the castings in sets for a GWR 4-4-0 Armstrong.

Scan of casting B496

Cross section diagram of casting B496
This example shows a tyre width of 3.5 mm for Gauge 0 Fine.
For Scale7 remove more metal from the back of the wheel to give a tyre thickness of 3.2 mm instead of 3.5 mm.


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