Supplier of BR 5/6 Leaf Springs & Oil Axleboxes

[Tim Dubya]

In light of Rumney Models being temporarily closed due to the Coronavirus pandemic, can anyone point me in the direction of a supplier of the above axleboxes and springs, either cast together (as Justin's) or a separate components.  I'm not too fussy about material, although I have a preference for wm.

 

I've had a good look on here and the usual suspects (38 pages of Wizard products), MJT don't appear to have the boxes but they have the springs. 

 

Now I'm sure there are more suppliers but for the life of me I can't think who they are. Google isn't doing it for me today, probably my spelling or syntax (?), so I've drawn a blank so far.

 

(First time I've built an Airfix/Dapol 16 tonner {at 51 and a half} and I have butchered, beyond redemption, everything below the solebar, just so I could whack some w-irons on it).

 

Cheers me dears

Edited July 2, 2020 by Tim Dubya
Wyld Wood

[RexAshton]

Try here

[Tim Dubya]

22 minutes ago, RexAshton said:

Try here

 

Thanks but as I mentioned above Mr Rumney has ceased trading during the current pandemic.

 

I have since found out from a post by Justin, from a couple of years back on Scaleforum, that one simply takes a file to a MJT RCH oil box and removes the detail on the top front of the box.

 

I have fired off an order to Dart for some and lots of other stuff I never knew I needed until an hour ago!

 

Cheers for looking / advice

[Porcy Mane]

On 02/07/2020 at 10:45, Tim Dubya said:

 

Thanks but as I mentioned above Mr Rumney has ceased trading during the current pandemic.

 

I have since found out from a post by Justin, from a couple of years back on Scaleforum, that one simply takes a file to a MJT RCH oil box and removes the detail on the top front of the box.

 

I have fired off an order to Dart for some and lots of other stuff I never knew I needed until an hour ago!

 

Cheers for looking / advice

 

Ere Dubya, Never thought. You're with this mob so you could have got some of these from stores. J's very quick with delivery. Moulded in that nice ABS stuff. £1.50 a pops not to bad.

 

[Axlebox]

1 hour ago, Porcy Mane said:

 

Ere Dubya, Never thought. You're with this mob so you could have got some of these from stores. J's very quick with delivery. Moulded in that nice ABS stuff. £1.50 a pops not to bad.

 

nice brake blocks uncle P...

[Porcy Mane]

12 minutes ago, Axlebox said:

nice brake blocks

 

Just the thing for using with etched pushrods  (Covhops), Gwasshopper.

Edited July 3, 2020 by Porcy Mane

[Tim Dubya]

Thank you boys, I've hassled the "keeper of the precious things" this week already, but hey, it's sooooooo easy to loose my wad these days*.

 

Cheers again

 

*Can't be me age, not at my age.

 

Edited July 3, 2020 by Tim Dubya
pen..... axlebox envy

[Porcy Mane]

12 minutes ago, Tim Dubya said:

sooooooo easy to loose my wad these days*

 

 In the pre coal mining  days, they mined it to exhaustion in the Lake District. They only started mining it in volume, once the great pipe had been de-watered.  (I do not joke about such matters!)

 

https://www.cumbria-industries.org.uk/wad/

Edited July 3, 2020 by Porcy Mane

[Tim Dubya]

It's them monks again.

 

Wad spent, happy face, time for cider juice.

 

Thank you 

[Tim Dubya]

On 03/07/2020 at 16:32, Porcy Mane said:

 J's very quick with delivery...

 

He is, they've just arrived and soon to be sacrificed at the alter of min.

[Porcy Mane]

45 minutes ago, Tim Dubya said:

alter of min

 

Fertilisation rituals surely?    I know, I know; you're not called Shirley.

 

Ah manure! A fine load for any min.

[Tim Dubya]

I fought ABS was that white mental stuff?

 

Double bargain

[Porcy Mane]

3 hours ago, Tim Dubya said:

I fought ABS was that white mental stuff?

 

E'scale ABS is that plistok stiff.

 

This is the ABS light metal stuv.  (Part of my ABS stash).

 

[Tim Dubya]

44 minutes ago, Porcy Mane said:

... is the ABS light metal stuv.  (Part of my ABS stash).

 

Funnily enough, I went through and unpacked my own stash into little boxes on Saturday, with some sadness I might add.  Adrian was a cussid old git but he was always pretty much right when it came down to it.   I didn't have many dealings with him, but he was always polite and on the ball.

 

I wonder what will happen to all those lovely bits and kits now.  Didn't he buy some of the white metal kits from D&S Danny?

 

 

Edited July 6, 2020 by Tim Dubya
Substituting the word ###### for git

[Tim Dubya]

Yummy, LSWR boxes...

[Porcy Mane]

10 minutes ago, Tim Dubya said:

Adrian was a cussid old git

 

I think Chris Leigh summed him up to perfection. I found him fine but his on-line "persona" could be  forthright & entertaining. He offered me his drawings of Diesel Brake Tenders & Gresley bogies, for nowt! Sadly I never took him up on the offer.

[Porcy Mane]

45 minutes ago, Tim Dubya said:

I wonder what will happen to all those lovely bits and kits now.  Didn't he buy some of the white metal kits from D&S Danny?

 

Questions like that sometimes takes decades to answer or fade away through the mists of time. Bit like some of the ranges that fell into the ABS grasp.

[PenrithBeacon]

The ABS range is sadly missed by this modeller, they were so much better than anything available now.

Regards

[Porcy Mane]

12 minutes ago, PenrithBeacon said:

they were so much better than anything available now.

 

I know where your coming from but in many respects the castings have been equalled and surpassed in quite a lot instances by the like of Lanarkshire Model Supplies, Rumney and Wizard. I was probably about twelve the first time I was introduced to ABS castings, via their inclusion in Mopok kits. ABS's "stuff" was just so much better that the competition at the time.

 

Unusual Disclaimer.

Lanarkshire Model Supplies, Rumney and Wizard.I know the props. of the three businesses named above and think that the sun shines out of their respective bumholes.