WESTDALE COACH KIT

[mswjr]

IM building a westdale coach kit o gauge good buy on e bay

anyway building it to instructions alloy body is going fine

and so is the interia but the last bit after painting is to glue

the m d f floor to the body, this idea looks messy and a

bit too perminent to me does anyone have a better idea

for attaching the floor , ive only built etched kits before.

THANKS mswjr

[John_Hughes]

I've built one of these - for a friend, I wouldn't have touched it otherwise! - in OO Gauge, and I did as follows: before soldering the ends in place, I checked how far the floor came up the ends, then marked them and epoxied 'stops' of brass bar about 1mm square or so from the scrap-box level with where the top of the floor should come.

 

Then when the whole thing was assembled I just let the floor 'sit' inside the coach, relying on the fact that it's a tight push-fit to stop it falling out; the stops I'd fastened at the ends prevent it from riding up; they were epoxied in place to stop them getting displaced when soldering the ends in place - a horrible job involving special flux and solder from Carrs.

 

A really pukka job would have involved having more substantial 'stops' and tapping them to take screws to fix the floor more firmly, but that seemed unnecessary, and by that stage I was already completely fed up with the job.

 

I'm glad you've enjoyed the kit; I thought the OO version was horrible!

[mswjr]

THANKS MATE never said i was enjoying it, only ever do etched brass next time ,

think ill go for the tapping and screwing method in this scale.

thanks again mswjr

[Bruciethefish]

When building a similar 'O' scale kit, I drilled two little holes in each solebar & used very tiny self-tap screws to keep the floor in place.. Hardly noticable under a coat of paint..