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Box in a box - there's movement...

scanman

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As stated (very) late last night, the soldering experiment went very well.

 

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This is the card surface after the second rail was added to a section of track ladder - hardly marked, and

 

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removal of the card layer shows the foam core was totally untouched. Excellent - so on with the show..

 

A 500mm track ladder was pinned down over the centre-line of the quarry siding and the second rail added. It seemed a shame to waste this effort so I also decided to try my hand at converting some deseasels I know own.. First out of the box was a Bachfar 'Warship'. The bogies were easily removed - but it was then that I discovered the trailing bogie also requires geared axles & I'd bought plain ones. Worse - I'd ordered 1 pair in 7.5mm and the other (plain) pair in 7mm diameter! DOH (Me thinks it was probably a typo on the order with regard to the diameter issue). However, like a pheonix arising from the ashes I then turned my attention to a Class 108 set.

 

Blowed if I could see how to do it - but trusty 'RMWeb' in the form of Steve Simms came to the rescue with his blog entry on the same subject. Without that (a) I wouldn't have had a clue how to remove the bogie sideframes and (b) I doubt I'd have had the courage to do it! Anyway - all done now - see the result here

 

 

Beddybyes now - off to DID in the morning...

 

Regs

 

Ian

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Mikkel
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Wait a minute, can't keep up :-) 

 

Some real progress there in a very short amount of time, very impressed Ian. Your soldering/foamboard experiment is very interesting, thanks for showing the results which look very good.

 

Good to see trains moving too, must be pleasing for you after the long break.

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Great stuff Ian, nothing like getting something moving to spur a chap along.

 

Regarding the Farish Warship. That needs to have its wheels sent away to be turned. The Association drop in wheels are not suitable due to it having a profiled face on the wheel.

 

Jerry 

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2mm Andy

Great stuff Ian, nothing like getting something moving to spur a chap along.

 

Regarding the Farish Warship. That needs to have its wheels sent away to be turned. The Association drop in wheels are not suitable due to it having a profiled face on the wheel.

 

Jerry 

And different size gears to the ones fitted to the drop-in wheels. Info on which wheels fit which locos is here;

 

http://www.2mm.org.uk/products/drop-in-wheels.html

 

Andy

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And different size gears to the ones fitted to the drop-in wheels. Info on which wheels fit which locos is here;

 

http://www.2mm.org.uk/products/drop-in-wheels.html

 

Andy

 

Great stuff Ian, nothing like getting something moving to spur a chap along.

 

Regarding the Farish Warship. That needs to have its wheels sent away to be turned. The Association drop in wheels are not suitable due to it having a profiled face on the wheel.

 

Jerry 

B...ER!

 

Many thanks chaps, another few quid to spend then...  The 'up side' - I note that the the geared wheels I have will fit a Farish 'class 25', which I understand was nicknamed 'The Rat' 'cos it got everywhere.  I'll still have to swap those errant 7mm ones tho'**.

 

No progress today - spent it at DID getting a 'fix' that should keep me happy for a few weeks.  It was flippin' cold tho, butI got some interesting 'mood' shots through the steam & snow (see the images in the 'prototype' gallery - if you want...)

 

*** Hmmm - just checked the reviews... Might be a '24' instead!

 

Regs

 

Ian

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