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  1. This is all very well, but the accident report (above) seems clear to me in that the uneven wheel-load problem, which caused extreme ocsillation and rail-jumping, was the basic design error of having heavy doors on diagonally opposite corners. Poor loading could be a factor, but were the derailed wagons not empty? CJI.
  2. Anything to do with the Snailbeach Railway or the Glyn Valley Tramway? CJI.
  3. Nowadays, it would be kids for energy credits! I bet that most of us could nominate a few local candidates. CJI.
  4. Thanks for that - it seems that my aging memory is not as poor as I thought! Sixty-three years after the event is not bad going! CJI.
  5. ..... and beware of lagged tanks, such as the Berry Wiggins example above. The tank diameter was greater, the ends were often flat with overhanging sides, and the anchor mounting was recessed into the lagging. CJI.
  6. That was all that Red Panda ever produced - to the best of my knowledge. CJI.
  7. Depending upon which site is advertising them, they are usually described as being for toys, and rated at anything up to 6V - though such ratings are merely nominal. Whatever - they can easily be had for under £2.00 each, which offers a significant saving over the price at which DJH sold them! CJI.
  8. The N20 gearbox motor is easily converted to take 1/8" axles, and can be fitted between OO frames - as I found out during a recent project. CJI.
  9. Would they still couple / negotiate curves if the chain was a couple of links shorter? CJI.
  10. I merely repeat what I'm sure that I read in 'Modern Railways' at the time. Moreover, look at the wagon broadside on - heavily-framed doors with all their fittings over one wheel, and a mere panel of cross-braced plywood over the other. If that didn't produce unequal axle loadings on opposite corners, nothing would! No doubt lazy loading didn't help, but a quick look at the wagon screams 'bad design' to me. AFAIK, the imbalance was never really resolved by the suspension experiments - yellow-painted springs denoted these, I seem to recall - hence their demotion to internal users / static stores. CJI.
  11. I would observe that, IME, we tend to be good at what we enjoy doing, and vice versa. Unconsciously, we fail to put in maximum effort into the tasks we do not enjoy - with predictable results! I am the exact opposite to yourself; enjoying wagon building; tolerating coach building; and finding loco building a chore. I put this down to a short attention-span - wagon building produces quick results! CJI.
  12. In which case, Mr. Ascott has my sincere sympathies! My wife was in a similar position for the best part of a year, and was totally incapacitated. Relief came at the hands of a very skilled surgeon at Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge. She has been restored to full functionality for many years now. I wish Mr. Ascott a speedy recovery. CJI.
  13. The application of a hot soldering iron tip to the two recalcitrant crankpins may release them - if you can devise a way of turning them. A sawn slot into the collar may permit the use of a flat screwdriver. CJI.
  14. I think that the brass appearance is just the lighting - I'm pretty sure that the product is cast whitemetal. CJI.
  15. Tended to be used in block trains - until it was discovered that the diagonally opposite, very heavy doors made them unstable at speed, and they bounced of the track! Cue a mandatory speed limit; experiments in modified suspension; and eventual sale to the Army. CJI.
  16. That is encouraging - but akin to reinventing the wheel! There exists - in theory if not in practice - the best range of user-friendly wheels, plus a massive range of incomparable fittings, that has ever existed. The problem is that, for whatever reason, availability seems to be NIL - and no-one is saying why! I find this to be immensely frustrating, and must be a serious disincentive to the kit and scratch-building hobby. SOMEONE must know what the problem is, and I cannot believe that it is beyond the whit of man to find a way of putting all the immense skill and work that went into the Markits range back on the market. After all - brand new, 1:1 steam locos are being produced - what we are talking about here is fine miniature engineering; very skilled, but not beyond the ability of many suitably trained persons. If the existing proprietor cannot, or will not, sort out the supply problems I would suggest that what appears to be a conspiracy of silence is not serving well the greater railway modelling community. CJI.
  17. Bodmin Moor? If so, it has been a VERY wet winter, but we rarely get such threatening cloud formations down here - just an endless conveyor-belt of grotty greyness off the Atlantic! CJI.
  18. The diagram TT039B is the correct one - but it does not have the correct drawing! CJI.
  19. The matt varnish is probably acrylic, and doesn't like the white spirit. CJI.
  20. My garage having a separate side door into the garden, the up-and-over door is still in-situ, but sealed. A heavy, waterproof membrane was sealed onto the threshold outside the door, and then taken up inside and behind the door, sealed onto the adjacent brickwork. This has proved to be totally draft and water-proof. CJI.
  21. It requires quite a bit of courage and a bit of strength! Squeeze the lower cabsides until you hear the glue crack - judicious application of a thin blade may help. CJI.
  22. The "gouge out of the bufferbeam" is a basic requirement for most potential customers - so that the loco can pull trains. Being in a small minority has its disadvantages, unfortunately. CJI.
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