Bachmann 9F, 92061 in EM gauge with air pumps.
It is not long until our depiction of South Pelaw and Stella Gill in EM (http://southpelawem.blogspot.co.uk/) will have its first journey to an exhibition, we're booked to appear at Railex NE at the end of July 2018. A lot of work has gone into making and converting locomotives and rolling stock, and in this blog I plan to document some of the activity that has gone on in darkest South Yorkshire.
One of the main traffics on the Tyne Dock Consett route was of course iron ore, in our period hauled by Q7s, O1s and 9Fs. The Bachmann 9F is a good runner, and so the first part of this blog is going to cover conversion to EM and then the addition of air pumps and other paraphernalia needed to operate the ore hopper doors. The aim is a representation of 92061 as running in 1962-5.
The first stage is of course to dismantle a perfectly good model. Here it is, along with some of the components that will be used in the conversion. I don't think I have invalidated the guarantee yet, but it won't be long!
The photo below shows Alan Gibson bushes soldered into the coupling rod holes.
The 9Fs had quite prominent hollow axles. Not having a lathe, drilling out the axles presented a bit of a problem. The solution was to make a jig out of brass rod. The jig has a 3 mm diameter hole drilled part way through using a pillar drill, with a 1 mm diameter hole drilled through the remainder. The jig fits over an axle and the 1 mm hole acts as a guide for drilling. The picture shows the jig, and the resulting axle.
Edited by RichardClayton
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