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Hornby railroad chassis


mervyn
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Well I swapped the chassis on an old ( 40 year old) converted* Hornby Evening Star with a 'Railroad' chassis a couple years ago.

 

* Converted to a Crosti altered to conventional running using an old Crownline Kit.  

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Chassis has arrived courtesy of Peters spares fitted and Loco now running Thanks for all the help!

Thanks for that, I've just got one for a replacement for an old tender drive version which the body had been detailed, and I was loathed to part with as it was renumbered to the first member of the class I copped ( 92129 ) :sungum:

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you will probably need to use a larger screw for the tender coupling to be fitted to the Loco as the old Hornby electrical contact /coupler was a smaller diameter ,put a self trapper into mine .

Thanks but all my Hornby tender locos are permanently coupled, and wired together. :sungum:

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There are at least 4 major variants of the Hornby 9F.      The original 6 traction tyre 6 wheel drive tender with loco pickup by wipers both sides with permanently attached tender and wires, the 2 traction tyre tender with pick up on the loco and a detachable tender,  The superdetail Chinese version of the 2 traction tyre tender drive and the loco drive version.

The loco drive chassis fits the Chinese tender drive loco, I've done it.  The cylinders are different as are some some chassis details so some parts will not interchange between Chinese loco drive and tender drive chassis.

There is a good chance the earlier bodies fit the latest loco drive chassis.   The tender chassis seems to interchange between tender bodies, the railroad loco drive uses a Tender drive chassis less armature etc.  Ours crumbled to bits and was replaced by a 1980s Hornby 47 trailing bogie chassis which is lighter, stronger, better.  

The loco drive chassis needs a big lump of lead if it is going to pull the skin off a rice pudding.  The 1970s 6 traction tyre version will pull about three of the loco drive railroad versions backwards.

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