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Some repairs and updates


Barry O

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Long time since I posted in my Blog. Been away and then ...

 

Positive thing about the Lockdown is more time to finish items in the "Roundtuit" pile.

 

I had a number of locos acquired without motors and gearboxes. I had some motors and gearboxes so...

 

take a High Level gearbox and a Mitsui motor,

 

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add to an existing Wills 4F and

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a 4F with tender cab.. do it again and

 

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A 4F with a high sided tender

 

I had a couple of Model Loco Kits Black 5s with totally bunged up Portescaps. Afte a lot of hard work, cleaning, taking gearboxes apart, checking motor connections I have (temporarily at least) coaxed them back to life. Repainted into BR lined Black (still boiler bands to do on this  loco)

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and a kit built Jinty.. bought from EBay.. not put together quite right but now fixed..

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Now it is a Brunswick loco for use on HerculaneumDock

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