Ruston 21,024 Posted Tuesday at 14:41 Share Posted Tuesday at 14:41 I am always putting bits of builds into my layout thread, even if the builds are sometimes done for other people, or aren't specifically for the layout, so I have decided to put them all in one place from now on. I have tried a blog but they are difficult to keep track of and there's never much feedback on them, so here we are... At the moment I am just finishing off a repaint/weather of a Heljan Class 05, which has been industrialised. It will be going on the layout that I sold a few months ago - White Peak Limestone & Tarmacadam. My own current project is this: It does look a bit of a mess at the moment but fingers crossed... 10 Link to post Share on other sites
Barclay 1,679 Posted Tuesday at 15:21 Share Posted Tuesday at 15:21 Looks interesting..... Link to post Share on other sites
RMweb Gold Mick Bonwick 7,493 Posted Tuesday at 16:35 RMweb Gold Share Posted Tuesday at 16:35 I agree with your sentiments about blogs. If you don't post something everey day, it's a devil to find your last contribution. Seeing all of the details of how you go about your builds will provide plenty of inspiration to some of us on here . . . . . . Link to post Share on other sites
Barnaby 2,033 Posted Tuesday at 16:51 Share Posted Tuesday at 16:51 EEEEEEEK that is frightening Dave but I'm sure with your skills it will appear resplendent if not a little smoky and greasy from its hard working environment. Best Link to post Share on other sites
Sandhole 736 Posted Tuesday at 17:16 Share Posted Tuesday at 17:16 I owe you an apology Dave. I still can't find my shots of the Buxton Lime 07 loco. I'll keep on looking. Regards, Chris. Link to post Share on other sites
RMweb Gold Wrenn 1,498 Posted Tuesday at 17:34 RMweb Gold Share Posted Tuesday at 17:34 Dave it's great that you are keeping it in one place. I'm certain your build project will be just as good as your previous ones. Link to post Share on other sites
Ruston 21,024 Posted Wednesday at 13:51 Author Share Posted Wednesday at 13:51 Thanks for the interest, chaps. I have made some progress on the lump of filler. Can you tell what it's going to be yet? 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Barclay 1,679 Posted Wednesday at 14:15 Share Posted Wednesday at 14:15 Ship Canal Hudswell? Link to post Share on other sites
Barclay 1,679 Posted Wednesday at 14:16 Share Posted Wednesday at 14:16 Brush/Bagnall? 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Ruston 21,024 Posted Wednesday at 18:17 Author Share Posted Wednesday at 18:17 3 hours ago, Barclay said: Brush/Bagnall? Yes. I'm not sure if it's going to be like the NCB pair, or the Stewarts & Lloyds pair yet. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
RMweb Gold Wrenn 1,498 Posted Wednesday at 19:52 RMweb Gold Share Posted Wednesday at 19:52 I will admit I do like the shape of the NCB brush/bagnall. Link to post Share on other sites
Ruston 21,024 Posted yesterday at 18:03 Author Share Posted yesterday at 18:03 This Ruston & Hornsby 165DE has really kicked my arse. It's now up and running, requiring only a few small details to be added but is on its fourth motor and second gearbox. The first motor was a Chinese copy of a Mashima 10/15, which failed and seemed to have too much end float. I replaced it with one in the photo, below, which seemed to run well enough but whilst on the rolling road it too started to make a grating noise and then stopped dead. I don't know what went wrong but turning the gearbox by hand seemed to be more difficult in one direction than the other, which led me to think that I had somehow assembled it wrongly. This gearbox was a High Level Lo-loader, which when I got it out of the loco, I could find nothing wrong at all. Gearbox back in and on to the third motor, this time a coreless thing. Again, it ran fine in one direction but made a horrendous noise in the other. This time I swapped the gearbox for a 90:1 Humpshunter, which I took out of an abandoned project but I knew that it worked perfectly. The same thing happened again and I decided that it must be the motor. Off with the coreless and on with a Mitsumi - this time it ran well and quietly in both directions. I must have just been unlucky to have three motors in a row that were no good. I have never used the coreless type before but I have used the others with no problems. It is now fitted with DCC, a Zimo MX648, with Ruston 165DS sound project, by Paul Chetter, a Kunfgu stay alive and a Youchoos 15x11x6mm speaker. The block buffers were milled from brass and are based on those fitted to the 165 that worked at Hebburn shipyard. I have never seen any others like them and as they aren't simply lumps of wood I wonder if they are an original Ruston fitting. The photo I used was in colour and it seemed that they weren't rusty or scratched, so could have been made from rubber or some similar shock-absorbing material. The loco weighs in at 171g, thanks to the brass buffers and lots of lead. I managed to get the stay alive and speaker within the frames, so the under-bonnet space was free for weighting. The cab also has a lead lined floor and walls, below window level. I am really not sure about my colour choice. The Hebburn loco was a dark brown and I would have painted it something similar but I don't have any brown and can't get any. I may repaint it in green. It now needs grab handles above the front steps, rear sand boxes, fuel and water fillers and lamps. I lost the fillers that came with the kit, so I'll have to improvise. It also needs a Ruston plate for the front and Ruston/AEI plates for the cab. Ruston plates are provided in the kit but they are brass. As the prototypes were aluminim alloy, I need nickel silver plates. 13 1 Link to post Share on other sites
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