Finally no blu-tac! J39 no longer comes apart
I made a small purchase from Hattons this week which then pushed me forward to finish one quite old project. I'd found a picture which shows a B1 shunting at Clare so started looking online for the options to produce a model. Hattons had a secondhand one which was advertised as 'warped drive wheel and imperfect box' for a very reasonable price. Given that I can't get hung up about the state of the box and would rewheel to P4 anyway I decided I couldn't pass it up. I have also written off for the Dave Bradwell B1 chassis and some wheels from Alan Gibson.
What has this got to do with the J39 I hear you cry...
Well I had built the Dave Bradwell chassis kit for the J39 some years back, it is driven via a motor in the tender driving the rear axle through a universal joint. The kit includes an excellent chassis for the loco but I'd not really had any luck with the tender chassis. I had never got the motor sitting properly and had never got the functional chassis, prototype chassis and tender top. To my shame blu-tac was involved.
As you might have seen on this blog I have been working on a chassis kit so I had some bits of test etch left over from one of the versions which I was able to 'cut and shut' into the correct wheelbase. I finally got around to putting the BR emblem on the tender and finally added an Alex Jackson coupling on the back.
So now I can feel less guilty once the B1 bits arrive.
David
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