[42. A day out : D.E.M.U. Show-case 2022.]

The Wellpark layout is interesting, do you have any more images to post?

Has   Wellpark been published in any magazines?

[Keeping 26043 alive.....No more welding....well on the outside anyway..]

The Class 26 is a favourite of mine,  I retain fond memories of trips with them in the Highlands to Kyle , Mallaig, Fort William and Inverness in the 1970s. It is so good to see them being looked after by an expert with such practical skills.

The holes for the fittings in the lower seam form a pattern , I think it is for a reassembly key,  so the panel always refitted with  the same orientation as constructed.

 

[Wagons, real and imaginary.]

The Charles Brennan wagon,  dumb buffered wagons  are not often modelled, from the Keith Turton books,  in spite of the efforts of the RCH,  dumb buffer wagons remained in traffic long after the  deadline  for conversion to sprung buffers

[Guess the project.]

A hyperthetical Co-Co diesel-electric Warship without the styling influence of  Sir Misha Black. I deduce diesel-electric due to the heavier weight over hydraulic requiring 6 axles, and the outside-framed bogies typical of  axle-hung electric traction motors

[Improving the Running of a Lima Class 73]

In the era of Bachmann diesels at £35 - £40 new,  S/H Lima diesels that were of near-zero value,  in the interval of Bachmann escalating from £35 to  beyond and above the £120+ price tag,  those Lima products have acquired a respectable value by the trickle down effect,  just check out Ebayprices for yourself.  It is therefore a worthwhile exercise to resurrect those old models,  the 73 is a favourite of mine,  the bodyshell of the 73  and the 31 possess  plenty of appeal, it is simply the mechanisms which spoil the picture. In addition,  I enjoy the same emotional connection that i experience with my Hornby Dublo CoBo and class 20

[Kingly matters.]

As an alternative to a screwdriver to scrape away the Mazak to enlarge the axle slot,  could the slot  be  ground away with  valve grinding paste ( motor cars)  and a scrap axle or a dowel of the suitable diameter.

 

Hornby retailers sell a tool for crank axle nuts,  the part number has slipped my memory