Bruce Engineering - Model Engineer's Supplies
Materials & Consumables
Bakers Fluid flux
for soft soldering
Boiler Lagging
High temperature (1200 deg C) ceramic matting in 2mm or 3mm thickness, cut length to your requirement.
Boiler kits for gas firing
These small boilers are easily assembled and provide convenient source of steam for small stationary engines or miniature marine applications. Enquire for boiler material kits for locomotives, etc.
Brass bar
in round, hexagon, square and rectangular sections in a wide variety of sizes. Standard length 2’ for posting.
Brass angle
from ¼” to 1”, standard length 2’
Brass sheet
to order cut to size.
Brass studding
Bronze Balls
for non-return valves, etc.
Bronze Bar PB102
in round and hexagon in a variety of sizes, 12” length
Bronze Bar PB66
leaded, round various sizes, 12” length
Cast Iron
round to 100mm diameter, minimum length 3” cut to length.
Cast Iron
square 2” and 3”, minimum length 3” cut to length.
Comsol high temperature soft solder
1/8” wire
Copper tubing bending
grade 1/16” to 3/8” diameter (plus some metric sizes)
Copper tubing
thin wall 1/16” to ¼”
Copper washers
in assorted thickness packs (for steam fittings, etc)
Fluxes
for silver soldering, Easyflo, Tenacity 4a, Stainless Steel etc.
Gasket paper
in various thicknesses for steam, oil and water.
Gauge Glass
plain metric 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10mm from stock.
Gauge Glass
Shelbach currently unavailable
Graphited Packing
in small quantities in various thicknesses.
Graphited String
Loc’n’Seal thread locking sealant
from Loctite in convenient small tubes.
Loctite thread locking, bearing retainer
in small bottles. Loctite Multigasket and Superclean cleaner/activator.
Lubricants
steam oil (1000sae and 460sae), slideway lubricant, cutting and tapping fluid, soluble oil and honing oil.
Nitrile balls
in various sizes from 1/8” to ¾”
Nuts and Bolts
wide range of BA fastenings in hexagon (inc. small head), roundhead and countersunk styles. Cap head bolts, Some metric sizes, including stainless steel studding.
‘O’ Rings
A wide range of sizes, available in Nitrile rubber, Silicon or Viton. For use as piston rings, joint seals, gauge glass seals, etc. Sizes from 1/8” to 1 ½” in stock.
Phosphor Bronze
round or hexagon in PB102 and round PB106 leaded.
Rivets, brass
small snap head rivets from 1/32” to 1/16” diameter, in packs of 50 with larger quantities on request
Rivets, copper
snap head from 1/16” diameter to 3/16” for boiler making and general use. Standard packs of 50, 3/16” in packs of 25.
Rivets, steel
snap head 1/16” diameter to 3/16”, general purpose.
Screws
BA screws in steel or brass, with hexagon, round or countersunk heads. Sizes from 12BA to 2BA in standard packs of 25.
Special range of metric screws and nuts, specially made for model engineers. These high quality nuts and bolts have small hexagons and are ideal for fine scale models.
Silicon Rubber Tubing
ideal for tender to loco water connections, brake pipes, etc. Available in 5’ lengths from 5/32” to ¼” internal diameter.
Silver Solder
Genuine Johnson Matthey silver solder products to cover most model engineering requirements. Easyflo 2 is the most popular, available in 1.5mm and 2.5mm rods as well as foil and wire. Silverflo 24, Silverflo 40 and Silverflo 55 rods also stocked. Silverflo 55 also available in ready mixed paste form. Fluxes stocked, EF2, Tenacity 4A and Stainless flux.
Silver Steel
Wide range of genuine Stubbs silver steel in metric and imperial sizes.
Soft Solder paste
‘Nealtin’, a convenient ready to use, low temperature flux solder mix.
Split pins
from 1/32” to 5/32” diameter in various lengths.
Stainless steel balls
for safety valves, clacks, pumps, etc.
Stainless steel rod
round, hexagon.
Stainless mesh
nominal 12” square sheets for making spark arrestors. Other sizes to order.
Stainless steel springs
in a variety of diameters and wire gauges, to give spring rates suitable for safety valves, axlebox springs etc.
Stainless steel studding
in metric (M3, M4) sizes.
Steel Stock in round, hexagon and square
plus a variety of common sections(including angle), all in bright drawn mild steel.
Steel Studding
in BA sizes (2BA, 4BA)
Taper pins
packs of 10 from 5/64” to 1/8” nominal diameter.
Thinwall copper tubing
supplied straight cut to length.