Graham456

Thanks, i know a picture can be worth a thousand words But haveing only a Old I pad taking a picture is no problem but shrinking to a reasonable size is, especially with a Internet speed of 2m bit out in the sticks, but thanks especially to Robert smith it looks like new one is the way to go at least from tonight's answer

I was luck enough to buy a Hornby Schools at the exmoor models showc in Minehead at the weekend, a small but very good and enjoyable show it was, on the club's stand among the items I bought a Hornby Schools,Wellington, sold as spair's or repair, well I have done very satisfactory repairs to it reattaching bits and repairing the cab roof, apart from the loco to tender wiring connection where one of the wires has pulled out of the plug. can any one recommend a way of reconnecting the wire back into the plugs pin? It's tiddly and fiddly sized, am I best to get a new wireing and plug if you can ? Or hard wire the engine to tender or does any know a way of reconnecting the wire to the pin as it very fine to get the soldering iron in the plug !

And in this part of Somerset...... Clangers are little pink knitted sheep like aliens that whistle ! That as far as I remember don't eat cake,pies or weird pasties and they never ate the soup dragon gwiwer

No FAT is what we will get on the pies, pasties and did I mention CAKE !

O god I have forgotten about the chicken and ham pie ! but then we have had two years off talking about the annual pasty event in fact I can't remember if the crimp goes over the top like a Devon pasty should or if it has the oggie around the edge crimp in the ones we get at the show new savory item ! i think I will come back in two days and six pages of dreaming about it will be in the hope trains might get a mention still only six months of drooling over the food to go. I just hope it doesn't clash with a series one Land Rover gathering up at maunsal lock yet again

No No No please remember Staplegrove is in SOMERSET we do not need to cater for Devonian or Cornish people who get all in a twist about wether their crimp goes around or over, Just don't put peas in my pasty like the bakers in Williton do YUCK ! YUCK ! YUCK ! jam or cream first ? Don't care! Just put another scone on top sandwich style so you can turn it over if. Your fussy!

Thank you friends so I have something unusual ! i haven’t been able to reply for the last week as my I pad is playing up it won’t let me press agree to allow cookies before I log in, it looks like it’s part bissel tank front end, the coal bunker is moved back out of the cab, the footplate must be from another kit as it’s longer than the bissel tanks kit would have and the chassis being white metal and about 2mm to long in the rear axel placement might be from the same source as the footplate (GEM)? it also has the wrong number plate 3329 which was never a coalsaddle tank still I can sort this now I know just have to wait until show and hope 247 will be their thank you kevinlms you got !

No sorry but this is a square saddle tank, also called a coal saddle tank in books like Edward Talbot LNWR engines and is a 0-6-0 tank that used the coal engine chassis with added tanks hence the official name and no tender!

I have a white metal kit built loco of a LNWR square saddle tank , also called a Coal saddle tank, now I bought this at a show, toy fair years ago and it has given good service, today I was titavating it up and was just wondering whose kit it is, a afternoon searching the web has drawn a blank about who made a kit in 4mm out of white metal, I assume it must be quite old as it appears to have a cast chassis potentially also white metal but I haven't scraped any plaint to check for certain that it is a white metal chassis but I would put a 98% certainty that it is a white metal if that helps identify the maker to you, please help me so I can list it properly in my little book I carry around shows to stop me buying duplicates even though this really only applies to rtr stuff and not something like this thank mates graham

I am sure we all suffer from the carpet monster eating our precious only one I have bits,lamanate flooring doesn't help as it just bounces further, but when I moved house. And the junk room had to be cleared out before the removal men took it all away I stripped the room packed all the kit and bits dismantled everything so I had a empty room , then with clean new vacuum bag fitted did the room. Forensic search was then carried out of the dust bag , but still bits were never found ! Only a few hand rail knobs that had pinged in the past.and other replaceable bits The worse thing you can do though is move! I can not find the chassis for my M&SWR no27 Albion models kit, that was being built before I moved, its large enough as the main frames were built, but no wheels fitted so it didn't roll away ! Where is it ?

Looking at the pictures the plate fits between the two outer lamp brackets and isn't that a hole in the plate for the central lamp bracket to pass through!, I know nothing about the real thing just going by the pictures of the model so might be wrong

Sorry to a misery but judgeing from the pictures it doesn't look too different from the results I get from useing a black Sharpie felt tip pen ! It might be longer lasting but the sharpie touches up easy of course the pictures might not be doing it justice and I don't do the wheel treads and flanges with the sharpie

Having just got back from a trip to watchet just now I have picked up some old kits at a junk shop on the harbour from after a hot dog for dinner I went upstairs to the junk emporium , where I bought a job lot of kits, mainly a collection of coopercraft kits with made in swain street watchet labels on so they traveled around three hundred yards in thirty years from being made ! But in the job lot were two coke wagon kits which is why I found this thread trying to find out about these kits as I haven't had any of theses kits befor, I presume I am going to run in to the to wide apart axelbox problem found with the open C and N.B cask wagon ,which I cure by packing out the brass bearing cups with 2mm washers behind the flange of the top hat bearings,with just enough. Of the bearing left to locate in the axelbox hole, if your still reading are there any transfers I can use on these coke kits out there like dad 1 s Bridport Gas ones which I like , but perhaps I ought to put Sturminster Newton Gas Co to reflect there beginnings ?

Yes but ! shiresceens etched brass sides on ratio coach underframes sorted my need for siphon C's out !even if the foot boards are a bit fragile so you then have to buy a brass detailing kit to sort that out Quote I cannot resist cheap buys either. I bought a still-shrink-wrapped-on-its-card K’s Dean PBV for an extraordinary £15 the other day. I’ve three built already, but they are such attractive vehicles. but at least with these PBV you can ring the changes livery wise And yep £15 is good anyway just about to start. On a keyser L M S cattle wagon haveing two coral A,s awaiting HRMS transfers to go back into production so I can say what have I done with my keyser kit?,,,,,,,,,,,built them

eer um well I have built. Six keyser' siphon F's the same as the GWR had all acquired at toy fairs cheep and built by previous owners, stripped and detailed by me with bits added that you could get from CPS before he died to do this (Mainly brake gear,) now the problem is haveing two more kits which would make eight two more than really exested so you can have too many ! No I can't resist temptation.when it's cheep Perhaps! I can experiment by shortening the stretched middle panels on these and fit the right bogies to the ones that didn't have the American ones, why did I miss that detail ?

O dear ! O dear ! why does this sound to familiar! at least with this lock down and no guests at my B & B this year I have got some of the pile done

The kit comes with long and short springs axelboxes I can't remember which you use with this kit to know which you require, as if your still in need i should have more than one available in the left over box

The man from down west says yes ! Just the job, for some reason I think printed wagon kits not transfers when it comes to powsides, thank yousuffolk dave. Now just for the roof colour ? If I get no answer I am sure I can fudge/smudge it

During the last week I have been having fun ! With a Bill Bedford GCR D13 goods van kit, not helped by their being no instructions with the kit ! Most likely lost in the years since I bought the kit at railwells at least two years ago, thankfully it's built and sat in gray paint awaiting G C transfers but who does them for wagons, not hrms or fox ? And a search on the web has got me nowhere HELP ? also what colour for the roof before adding the dirt ? Don't want to add to much dirt as the wagon is in only a year or two out of the paint shop condition? White lead on canvas ? should add it's in 4mm scale

And it's a gold star from me as well, used their click and collect of a sort service to day, well phone and collect! To be honest didnt even have to get out of the car, Maria delivered my pre payed Hornby north british six wheels to the car door in full protection gear whilst Jess waved through the window, their now sat on the windowsill at home looking grand and awaiting the D51 to be put on the front in the morning day light excellent service

That is a HP2m nothing like mk1 or mk2 which were larger and longer lasting than that THING ! anything from a modern supplier will improve your model depends on your skill level comet gearboxes are fairly easy to build I think DJH gearboxes might be to big for a terrier, Highlevel probably your best bet but a bit more fiddly if you have never built a gearbox before, the highlevel website has a useful gearbox size chart to give you a clue personally if they are OK I would reuse the wheels to keep it as period piece fancy wheels would be a waist of money as the cost would go a long way to better detailed rtr model and take away from feeling of a K's kits

With out looking it up this entrance arch is sounding like Bristol Bath road shed, not the sixties diesel shed nore the steam shed that preceded that one but the original first one demolished at the turn of the last century very Brunel ish in its build with fancy arch ways in to a square area surrounded by workshops a little bit like the workshops of the padarn railway at Lanbaris all this is pre the bridge across the river and road was built linking to st Phillips marsh

Giveing a shout out to both Porthmadog and Aberystwyth pubs, I call them pubs because whilst their in the station buildings they are no longer in use as the station ! think Aberystwyth weathspoons has the most lavatories cubicles for any pub ! Enough to deal with a excursion train load !

Ah Ha but he is lucky enough to have one of the later kits judgeing from the pictures which don't have the molded on handrails so that won't be a problem! But do look out for a preserveriance chassis kit for these kits or as I have found out you can remoter the currant brass overlay plastic chassis you have with markits wheels and a highlevel gearbox for a better running chassis, I got both of mine to run well during the first lockdown one with the plastic/brass chassis (couldn't get hold of a preserveriance brass chassis) and one with the aforementioned brass chassis

Not much help but as a fellow calne born rmweber I thought I would point out the booklet on the calne branch is No help on siphons! But the cover picture of a post man waiting with mail on the cover of The Calne Branch by Tanner 1972' also has a view of the Morris post office van that my dad went tobogganing down a hill in, writeing it off back in his younger days not to long after the cover shot!