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Diverse little things..

Chrislock

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LO peeps.

 

Unfortunatley I didn't make the RMWeb day last Saturday.

I was intending to attend, but a MRS tour of Kentish Town and Betjeman's Midland was the same day, and I had committed to go on it.

I am sorry not to have met up with people again, but the London tour was unique, led by an ex-Kentish shed driver.

 

I have taken my 1F chassis to pieces ( again)- still not happy with it! Was not running at all smoothly.Luckily I resisted the urge to hurl it at the wall!

I was awaiting a new drive cog from the 2mmsoc but managed to order (another one) which is too big doh. I now have THREE that size! I wish they would give the diameter, rather than just the number of teeth, or is that not being engineer enough?

 

I have kept one of the frames as a templete for the hole positions, the rest I've binned, and the loco body packed away until I get a bit of enthusiasm back for it.

Glenfield can run perfectly happily on the converted 2F anyway.

 

On a more positive note, I ordered a pait of GE drivers, which slipped perfectly into my N gauge Spinner, and look superb. Surprisingly for me, the engine worked as soon as it was returned to the track. Not that his should be appearing at Glenfield!

[ I have been considering whether in my scenario the Midland actually carried through the proposed widening of the tunnel/ opening it up as a cutting, instead of re-routing the line via Kirby Moxloe..unlikely I know; and anyway they would almost certainly have double tracked it..) :)

 

Last weekend I undertook the station shelter, and am fairly pleased with the result. I think it is slightly too wide and the windows are not quite the correct size ( had to cut about some BH Enterprise ones to get anywhere near). If this was N gauge, I would be happy with the outcome, but as it is I am trying to source some better windows and will rebuild at some point, as it only took a couple of hours to construct.

 

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Research has suggested that the mysterious curved siding at the end of the goods loop might well have been a dock, as I always suspected.

 

As there was no other access to this siding apart from through the main goods/coal yard, such as it was, it is unlikely that it was for livestock, but am waiting to clarify this.

Also I'm hoping to use my little mobile cattle ramp I built last year! :P

 

Finally, I have added some sculptamold to smooth out the contours on the layout itself. Its the first time I've used it and I was quite impressed with how easy it is to use. No photo as yet.

 

Regards,

Chris

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mitziblue

Glad the G E drivers worked Chris will be ordering a set before long for the same purpose.

The shelter looks nice and with the time it takes to build no real hastle to rebuild it later.

 

Mark

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Donw
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Shame about the 1F Chris it looked a real treat. Tricky things these 2mm gears. Having got a few 100DP ones to play with they now announce that the shop will be going over to metric ones. Oh for a precision motor gearbox like the ones I use for 0 gauge.

Don

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richbrummitt

The problem is always the space available between the frames. Microantribe (sp) have some small gearboxes to fit small motors but the ones that I thought looked useful are unlikely to fit between the frames of a 2FS loco. Making the gearbox frames integral to the locomotive frames reduces the space issue, but brings with it a whole heap of grief in planning the chassis design for a loco.

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Chrislock

Agreed Don.

I have been looking at O gauge motors for inspiration PLUS you can actually see them! Connoisseur models offer a Mashima with a fixing plate also which automatically spaces the drive gear the correct distance away from the worm, in a 40:1 ratio.

I will be trying this method when I attempt it again, assuming I can find a way of achieving that ratio with the 8.5mm wheels on the 1F.

I wonder that the 2mm association couldn't offer something similar for commonly used motors?

 

http://www.jimmcgeown.com/Motors%20and%20Castings.html

 

Rich, I did exactly that in integrating the whole chassis. Getting the gears to mesh correctly and squarely proved to be problem, as was trying to then fit the motor into the body as well. I didn't find the frame width a major difficulty.

Isolating everything was then an added challenge.

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Donw
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My choice in 0 gauge are the ABC motor gearbox combos. They cost (about £80) High efficiency gears ready to install no meshing to worry about. For my beaconsfield the drive axle gear would have protruded through the cab floor - no trouble Brian made up a special which kept it below. I ahve been spoilt.

Don

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