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Finally no blu-tac! J39 no longer comes apart


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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.

 

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So now I can feel less guilty once the B1 bits arrive.

 

David

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Looking very smart and I'm glad to hear of your positive progress.

You won't regret buying the Dave Bradwell chassis kit, which also contains some rather nice brass casting for boiler fittings and alternate smokebox doors. Get researching your prototype!

Dave.

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Looking good David, nice loco and the layout is coming on well. Hope that you are all well.

 

Alex.

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