Finney & Smith GWR/BR AA6 Permanent Way Brake Van.

Measure the width of the hole spacing.

 Sometimes you struggle with something and after what seems forever you come up with a solution.
My Eureka moment came whilst I was trying to form and fit the numerous handrails needed to fit to this van.
After drilling out the handrail holes with a .35mm drill and then opening out slightly with a smoothing broach there is the problem of bending the wire to fit the holes to the correct length. What I came up with is to use a pair of springbow calipers which have been lurking in the tool box for ages.

Find the corresponding size on the jig.

Open the points till they just fit the holes and then find the relevent spacing in Bill Bedfords handrail jig. Why this never dawned on me before is unbelievable-so simple yet the simple things are usually the most obscure.
Then its a matter of pushing into the holes, adding some flux and running the soldering iron around them with a small amount of solder.
The bottom picture, again cruelly enlarged shows that these are possibly the best result I have had with handrails- although to be fair the rest have all been on plastic kits but I suppose the same idea could be applied.
Just the other side to do and the body is just about ready for the roof and wheels to be fitted.

Handrails fitted into place and soldered.