Goodevening -

and now for something very small , that isnt a class 37 , or a 50.

I really like the Farish 08 - it looks and runs great - but Ive always wanted to do something about the con rods - which are overscale , and the cranks stick out too far - These are the only snags which would make the little 08 model much harder to distinguish from its bigger brother.

Pete Harvey Kindly produced some new rods for me - shown here sitting on top of the cranks

getting these to work properly has taken a while - the etched rods ae perfect - petes done a great job - a bit too perfect for the Bachmann mechanism , which has a lot of slop in it - so ive had to ease everything - I streached the rods a little buy cutting and resoldering them together (they are layered) which has done the trick. Now I want to move the cranks in towards the frames a little , and chage the crank pins that retain the rods to something more discrete The quatering needs attention too - the slop in the drive probably helps the model to run if the quatering isnt quite spot on - but I want to fix this.

Hopefully my next post should show a class 08 in bits - hopefully with the wheelsets extracted and the fun can begin.

tfn

Jon