NEM pockets for couplings

[SteveyDee68]

Have a couple of lovely (secondhand) wagons cheap of that well known auction site which have damaged NEM pockets. Also some wagons without mounting points for standard tension lock couplings.

 

Hoping anyone,' might know of someone producing replacement NEM pockets or the same component, for scratchbuilders? I imagine if Bachman can.

Edited December 15, 2018 by SteveyDee68

[Moxy]

Have a couple of lovely (secondhand) wagons cheap of that well known auction site which have damaged NEM pockets. Also some wagons without mounting points for standard tension lock couplings.

 

Hoping anyone,' might know of someone producing replacement NEM pockets or the same component, for scratchbuilders? I imagine if Bachman can.

 

Hi

 

You need Parkside Models PA34.  There is a link here to the item on Hattons website, but they are widely available from a number of retailers.

 

HTH

 

Moxy

[Dunsignalling]

Have a couple of lovely (secondhand) wagons cheap of that well known auction site which have damaged NEM pockets. Also some wagons without mounting points for standard tension lock couplings.

 

Hoping anyone,' might know of someone producing replacement NEM pockets or the same component, for scratchbuilders? I imagine if Bachman can.

If you buy spare Bachmann couplers, they come with pockets, but I haven't come across anybody selling the pockets on their own.

 

The other half of your query has been covered by the previous post.

 

Also, you haven't asked this, but note that Hornby and Bachmann pockets aren't directly interchangeable, the dovetail is a slightly different shape/size. AFAIK, the Parkside mounts were specifically designed to take Bachmann ones. 

 

John

[SteveyDee68]

Hi

 

You need Parkside Models PA34.  There is a link here to the item on Hattons website, but they are widely available from a number of retailers.

 

HTH

 

Moxy

Thanks for the info and link, especially given that I must have accidentally posted my incomplete query (with a crazy subject heading) when closing my iPad last night!

 

Steve

[SteveyDee68]

If you buy spare Bachmann couplers, they come with pockets, but I haven't come across anybody selling the pockets on their own.

 

The other half of your query has been covered by the previous post.

 

Also, you haven't asked this, but note that Hornby and Bachmann pockets aren't directly interchangeable, the dovetail is a slightly different shape/size. AFAIK, the Parkside mounts were specifically designed to take Bachmann ones. 

 

John

Thanks - I didn't know that, although the few older Hornby wagons I have use a rivet to fasten their coupler. I guess these are proper "vintage" and would best be retired, as they seem taller than my Bachman, Dapol or even Airfix/GMR and Mainline wagons.

[The Johnster]

I have retired all wagons with moulded handbrake levers (except some Hornby 21ton minerals where it is a little less obvious), which has had the effect of eliminating the older type of couplings.  This has left a backlog of perfectly good bodies, some of which I have weathered or otherwise detailed, awaiting new current production standard Bachmann chassis, but I'm making progress and there's only 4 left now...

 

Of course, I'm trying to keep the costs down by sourcing the chassis secondhand, but it is the nature of things that the bulk of secondhand wagons have moulded handbrake levers and are often not that much of a saving over new!

[cctransuk]

AFAIK, the Parkside mounts were specifically designed to take Bachmann ones. 

 

 

 

A little pressure from a pair of pliers 'adjusts' the pockets to take any dovetail !!

 

Regards,

John Isherwood.

[Dunsignalling]

A little pressure from a pair of pliers 'adjusts' the pockets to take any dovetail !!

 

Regards,

John Isherwood.

Your definition of "adjust" clearly tallies with mine.... 

 

John

[Dunsignalling]

I have retired all wagons with moulded handbrake levers (except some Hornby 21ton minerals where it is a little less obvious), which has had the effect of eliminating the older type of couplings.  This has left a backlog of perfectly good bodies, some of which I have weathered or otherwise detailed, awaiting new current production standard Bachmann chassis, but I'm making progress and there's only 4 left now...

 

Of course, I'm trying to keep the costs down by sourcing the chassis secondhand, but it is the nature of things that the bulk of secondhand wagons have moulded handbrake levers and are often not that much of a saving over new!

I've just finished fitting a Hornby Ventilated Meat van with a Bachmann chassis from a Mogo. Big improvement.

 

Somebody at a swapmeet had about a dozen Mogos (which is unusual), most with slight body damage or missing coupling hooks. I picked three up cheaply and would have had the lot at the price asked, but I didn't have enough cash left by the time I found them!

 

Fortunately, all three have the brake gear assembled correctly, though the cylinders were on the wrong side and had to be moved (not difficult).  It's only quite recently that Bachmann seem (at last) to be getting this aspect of their 10' wheelbase vans right on a consistent basis.

 

The best of the Mogo bodies will (almost certainly not prototypically) become a garage for my Wickham trolley and another will be chopped up so I can model it with the doors open. Waste not want not!

 

John

Edited December 16, 2018 by Dunsignalling

[The Johnster]

A van for ventilated meat?  What a good idea!

 

This is definitely the way to go for improving older stock, John.  It is a little expensive and wasteful for those of us of the waste not generation, but avoids a huge amount of faffing, and in my view faffing is an opportunity to mess things up!   Older bodies from the Airfix/Mainline era are usually well enough detailed and finished to look fine with replacement up-to-date chassis, but you end up with a new load of surplus bodies.

 

For this reason I look for bargains in open wagons as chassis donors, and am building an unintended collection of LMS 3-plankers, which have been given the opportunity of exciting new careers in the small container for odds and ends industry.  Waste not want not!

Edited December 16, 2018 by The Johnster