Miss Prism Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 12 minutes ago, Chuffer Davies said: I've looked at the S4 Society data sheets before but the critical measurements for spacing the slidebars are not provided and can not be reliably determined. GWR outside 2-cylinder sets had 6'10" piston centres. Slidebars are typically 5.5" wide, and 2.5" high (at their thickest point). The c 2000 redesign of the Comet cylinder set put the piston centres on 28mm, the previous 27.7 being a bit uncomfortable. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted November 22, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 22, 2020 19 minutes ago, Miss Prism said: GWR outside 2-cylinder sets had 6'10" piston centres. Slidebars are typically 5.5" wide, and 2.5" high (at their thickest point). The c 2000 redesign of the Comet cylinder set put the piston centres on 28mm, the previous 27.7 being a bit uncomfortable. Considering how little clearance there is in 00, I'm surprised you can get them to work in P4 I've used Markits wheels in 00 with Comet 43XX frames and motion and the clearance is minimal. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach bogie Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 I spent a couple of hours tarting 'down' mine a bit. Paint finish has been given a matt all over. I have added real coal, lamp, crew. weather sheet, painted the tyre rims black and rods oily steel, removed front coupling socket added microstrip to cross heads to give an impression of a tree dimensional casting. I also changed the number. 6336 was a Welsh engine in the 1930's so not much chance it would be on a local Bristol- Salisbury train. 6348 was an Oxley engine but did make it to Westbury on freights from Bordersley. Westbury has 'borrowed' it on local duties, before she returns back to the midlands on the north bound working. As point, be careful if you touch the pony wheels. Mine was running fine then derailed all over the place. I had managed to push in the split axles and altered the gauge. My bad but sorted now. A touch of superglue and the gauge is now maintained. On trial it hauled seven heavy kit built coaches on the up and down incline circuit with no issues. The first rtr steam that has done that on my line. Mike Wiltshire 16 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pteremy Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 3 minutes ago, Coach bogie said: I spent a couple of hours tarting 'down' mine a bit. Paint finish has been given a matt all over.... Mike Wiltshire Looks excellent. What did you make the weather sheet out of? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach bogie Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 (edited) 3 minutes ago, Pteremy said: Looks excellent. What did you make the weather sheet out of? Black tissue paper from one of my wife's shoe boxes - she won't notice. Got away with that one when I detailed up an open cab Pannier. retaining wire is a single strand of wire from bell bale. Mike Wiltshire Edited November 22, 2020 by Coach bogie spellings 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pteremy Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 1 hour ago, Chuffer Davies said: ...Your pictures allow us to compare the new Dapol offering to the old Mainline body. I have to admit that there's not a lot in it, both capture the look of the prototype convincingly. Perhaps. But if you place them side by side the Bachmann version shows its age in terms of the thickness and size/presence of moulding detail. But on a positive note whereas Dapol has accurately modelled late moguls - so approx 63xx numbers - the Bachmann version has the characteristics of earlier batches in the series - thinner motion bracket, the earlier side splashers, and a tall safety valve cover. So it still has value if you are after the earlier versions. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neal Ball Posted November 23, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 23, 2020 Has anyone had issues with the loco seizing up? Although the instructions say running-in is not needed, thats what I am now doing. It seems to be running better, (on DC), but is still not perfect. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to where / how its seizing and/or sticking when going round at slow speed on the rolling road. I will preserve and see how I get on tomorrow. 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium NCB Posted November 24, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 24, 2020 7 hours ago, Neal Ball said: Has anyone had issues with the loco seizing up? Although the instructions say running-in is not needed, thats what I am now doing. It seems to be running better, (on DC), but is still not perfect. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to where / how its seizing and/or sticking when going round at slow speed on the rolling road. I will preserve and see how I get on tomorrow. Can you try it on track? Personally I'm not a fan of using rolling roads to run locomotives in; the dynamics are different. If you're not happy with track performance, I'd suggest looking closely to see if it needs a drop or two of oil. I know it's not supposed to be needed, but you never know. Nigel 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neal Ball Posted November 24, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 24, 2020 4 hours ago, NCB said: Can you try it on track? Personally I'm not a fan of using rolling roads to run locomotives in; the dynamics are different. If you're not happy with track performance, I'd suggest looking closely to see if it needs a drop or two of oil. I know it's not supposed to be needed, but you never know. Nigel Strangely I also thought of that. I have a circle of track that I was going to put together. Clearly I’m hoping it frees up, as it was getting better yesterday. Failing that I will be laying out some track somewhere. Thanks for the suggestion. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Budgie Posted November 24, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 24, 2020 5 hours ago, Neal Ball said: Strangely I also thought of that. I have a circle of track that I was going to put together. Clearly I’m hoping it frees up, as it was getting better yesterday. Failing that I will be laying out some track somewhere. Thanks for the suggestion. I think you want some straight lengths in your test track, so you can see how the loco behaves on the transition from straights to curves. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted November 24, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 24, 2020 1 minute ago, Budgie said: I think you want some straight lengths in your test track, so you can see how the loco behaves on the transition from straights to curves. A figure of eight would be good to see how it goes round curves of opposite hand too. And some points... Oops, we've got a trainset! 3 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
No Decorum Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 10 hours ago, NCB said: Can you try it on track? Personally I'm not a fan of using rolling roads to run locomotives in; the dynamics are different. If you're not happy with track performance, I'd suggest looking closely to see if it needs a drop or two of oil. I know it's not supposed to be needed, but you never know. Nigel I had a similar problem with my Terriers. Cleaning the wheels and oiling helped a lot. From the reports on here, it seems that some Moguls run well but others are problematical. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butler Henderson Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 (edited) I use an oval, quarter of running in period one way round, reversed for for the next quarter then physically turned round and repeated. Edited November 25, 2020 by Butler Henderson 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neal Ball Posted November 24, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 24, 2020 1 hour ago, Budgie said: I think you want some straight lengths in your test track, so you can see how the loco behaves on the transition from straights to curves. 1 hour ago, St Enodoc said: A figure of eight would be good to see how it goes round curves of opposite hand too. And some points... Oops, we've got a trainset! 55 minutes ago, No Decorum said: I had a similar problem with my Terriers. Cleaning the wheels and oiling helped a lot. From the reports on here, it seems that some Moguls run well but others are problematical. Thanks very much for the comments. Today as they say is a different day..... I started with the loco going backwards, which it happily did for 1/2 hour.... as soon as I set it to go forward, it stopped straight away. I was in the middle of soldering, so gave carried on and left the loco for the time being. to be continued.... 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuffer Davies Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 This is part 2 of my explanation into how I intend to go about converting a Dapol mogul to EM gauge: I took delivery of my 63xx on Monday and as I have no facilities for OO models I immediately set to and invalidated any warranty by significantly dismantling the loco and tender. The tender frames sit in a rebate around the inside of the valance. There are four small screws, one in each corner, that attach the frames to the body and then two further screws that allow the speaker housing to be removed from the top of the frames. Detail is excellent and whilst there are a couple of things to put right on the whole I'm delighted with the tender. In the following picture I have already removed the brass shim pickups from the top of the frames because they were preventing me from taking some of the measurements I needed. The locomotive splits down into three main parts: the chassis, the footplate and the cab, boiler, smokebox assembly. The chassis is retained with three screws, two small ones under the cab and one between the front of the cylinders. It is necessary to remove the circuit board for the DCC chip through the smokebox door opening before the chassis will drop away from the superstructure. As you would expect the bottom of the boiler barrel comes away with, and is part of the chassis's casting. The superstructure comprises a cast metal (Mazak?) footplate and a plastic moulded cab, boiler, smokebox assembly. Once the chassis has been removed this reveals a single screw under the centre of the cab floor to release the back of the plastic assembly from the footplate. There are four small clips that also hold this assembly to the footplate, these release very easily once the screw under the cab has been removed. I still need to study the model in more detail but I do foresee some immediate challenges for my conversion. As far as the tender is concerned I think I may end up retaining the brake hangers because removing plastic from behind the frames to make space for etched hangers will be difficult without damaging the external detail. Fortunately the brakes are not aligned with, and are significantly outboard of, the OO wheels so should line up reasonably well with EM wheel sets. The good news is that there is clearance (just) for a motor inside the tender albeit approximately 0.2mm. The loco is going to be more challenging because the metal footplate curves down to follow the bottom of the cab sheets. This means that the metal of the footplate's rear will occupy the space I need for the universal joint in the drive train. I'll need to think seriously about how to mitigate this but its not going to be insurmountable I'm sure. The next stage is to finalise the components for the tender before taking on the challenge of designing how to install the drive train under the cab of the locomotive. Watch this space..... Frank 4 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted November 24, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 24, 2020 At least we can see the chunky motor (presumably iron cored) from that strip down. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Burton Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 I've just been catching up on the slidebar discussion but haven't noticed any comment on how far the slidebars are apart. The prototype drawing shows they should be 1' 4" (5.33 mm) apart. My model measures only 4.6 mm, so here's another reason that the ends of the slidebars are turned up. David 1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted November 24, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 24, 2020 1 hour ago, David Burton said: I've just been catching up on the slidebar discussion but haven't noticed any comment on how far the slidebars are apart. The prototype drawing shows they should be 1' 4" (5.33 mm) apart. My model measures only 4.6 mm, so here's another reason that the ends of the slidebars are turned up. David The Hornby 61XX are about 5.2mm apart. What are the measurements for the slide bars & connecting rods on the drawing? Hornby have 20mm (5'0") long slide bars and 28mm long (7' 0") connecting rods. Cylinder centres are about 27.5mm or 6' 9" (As my 63XX hasn't arrived yet I can't check that) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuffer Davies Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 (edited) 10 minutes ago, melmerby said: The Hornby 61XX are about 5.2mm apart. What are the measurements for the slide bars & connecting rods on the drawing? Hornby have 20mm (5'0") long slide bars and 28mm long (7' 0") connecting rods. Cylinder centres are about 27.5mm or 6' 9" (As my 63XX hasn't arrived yet I can't check that) I don’t have a GA drawing for the mogul but do have a drawing for the County 4-4-0. According to that drawing the distance between the inside faces of GW slide bars is 1’4” (5.33mm). I would agree that the Dapol slide bars appear to be too close together which explains the need for the excessive tapers at the ends of their slide bars. It’s still a very good model but it does seem an unnecessary compromise on the part of Dapol. Frank Edited November 24, 2020 by Chuffer Davies Spelling 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neal Ball Posted November 24, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 24, 2020 9 hours ago, Neal Ball said: Thanks very much for the comments. Today as they say is a different day..... I started with the loco going backwards, which it happily did for 1/2 hour.... as soon as I set it to go forward, it stopped straight away. I was in the middle of soldering, so gave carried on and left the loco for the time being. to be continued.... All fixed now, no thanks to Dapol who I phoned thus afternoon and were not helpful at all. See the comments and photos on my Henley page if Your loco will not run correctly / seizes up. Hopefully there is no lasting damage. Note: If you are going to remove the body, the Next18 socket is too big for the bottom of the boiler. You need to jiggle around with it to get it out. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Budgie Posted November 24, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 24, 2020 7 hours ago, Chuffer Davies said: This is part 2 of my explanation into how I intend to go about converting a Dapol mogul to EM gauge: I took delivery of my 63xx on Monday and as I have no facilities for OO models I immediately set to and invalidated any warranty by significantly dismantling the loco and tender. The tender frames sit in a rebate around the inside of the valance. There are four small screws, one in each corner, that attach the frames to the body and then two further screws that allow the speaker housing to be removed from the top of the frames. Detail is excellent and whilst there are a couple of things to put right on the whole I'm delighted with the tender. In the following picture I have already removed the brass shim pickups from the top of the frames because they were preventing me from taking some of the measurements I needed. The locomotive splits down into three main parts: the chassis, the footplate and the cab, boiler, smokebox assembly. The chassis is retained with three screws, two small ones under the cab and one between the front of the cylinders. It is necessary to remove the circuit board for the DCC chip through the smokebox door opening before the chassis will drop away from the superstructure. As you would expect the bottom of the boiler barrel comes away with, and is part of the chassis's casting. The superstructure comprises a cast metal (Mazak?) footplate and a plastic moulded cab, boiler, smokebox assembly. Once the chassis has been removed this reveals a single screw under the centre of the cab floor to release the back of the plastic assembly from the footplate. There are four small clips that also hold this assembly to the footplate, these release very easily once the screw under the cab has been removed. I still need to study the model in more detail but I do foresee some immediate challenges for my conversion. As far as the tender is concerned I think I may end up retaining the brake hangers because removing plastic from behind the frames to make space for etched hangers will be difficult without damaging the external detail. Fortunately the brakes are not aligned with, and are significantly outboard of, the OO wheels so should line up reasonably well with EM wheel sets. The good news is that there is clearance (just) for a motor inside the tender albeit approximately 0.2mm. The loco is going to be more challenging because the metal footplate curves down to follow the bottom of the cab sheets. This means that the metal of the footplate's rear will occupy the space I need for the universal joint in the drive train. I'll need to think seriously about how to mitigate this but its not going to be insurmountable I'm sure. The next stage is to finalise the components for the tender before taking on the challenge of designing how to install the drive train under the cab of the locomotive. Watch this space..... Frank Thank you for posting this. Is there any room for adding extra weight to the loco? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuffer Davies Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 10 minutes ago, Budgie said: Thank you for posting this. Is there any room for adding extra weight to the loco? That would depend on whether you are happy to change the wiring regime? The smoke box is currently used to house the DCC cicuitry. If you did away with the printed circuit board then the there is probably 25+mm depth inside the smoke box where ballast could be added. If you still want DCC you could then put the chip in the tender by re-jigging the draw bar's 4 way wiring to carry the track feed from the wheels to a chip in the tender and then the connections from the chip to the motor. It all depends how brave (or foolish?) you are. Frank 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted November 24, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 24, 2020 Back to the slidbars, I can't see why Dapol have made them too close together or what advantage that has in running or clearances, so I would assume that this is the result of a misreading of the drawings or a mistake in measuring a preserved loco. Do any Churchwardian outside cylinder designs have slide bars 13.94 or so (4.6mm scaled up) inches apart, small prairies perhaps. If so it is I suppose possible that this measurement might have been taken erroneously for large praries and thus transposed to the mogul, and potentially the Manor. To err is human and to forgive is divine; one hopes that if this is a mistake it will be rectified in later models, Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Budgie Posted November 25, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 25, 2020 21 minutes ago, The Johnster said: Back to the slidbars, I can't see why Dapol have made them too close together or what advantage that has in running or clearances, so I would assume that this is the result of a misreading of the drawings or a mistake in measuring a preserved loco. Do any Churchwardian outside cylinder designs have slide bars 13.94 or so (4.6mm scaled up) inches apart, small prairies perhaps. If so it is I suppose possible that this measurement might have been taken erroneously for large praries and thus transposed to the mogul, and potentially the Manor. To err is human and to forgive is divine; one hopes that if this is a mistake it will be rectified in later models, Can you see the difference? I can't, so I'm not bothered; but I can understand it might bother others. As n aside, and being pedantic, with my mathematician's hat on, that 13.94 or so inches apart is probably 14 inches apart. 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted November 25, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 25, 2020 14 is close enough for me, Jane. But the unnecessary closeness of the bars might account for the splayed ends, and while the distance between the bars is something that I doubt I'd ever notice or be aware of, I am very aware of the splayed ends which draw attention to themselves because I know from my own memory of the moguls that they should be parallel. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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