RMweb Premium Barry O Posted March 1, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 1, 2020 They be the ones but also some for sand and alumina (although these may haveen recycled grain wagons) Alas Welwyn GC now bosts a large delapidated factoey... wonder where Nabisco make the same cerials now? Baz 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted March 2, 2020 Author Share Posted March 2, 2020 A couple of unusual items across the bench yesterday. It was my first duty day of the season at Ormesby Hall and I sat down early to finish a few jobs to take with me. This isn't something you see modelled often, but it runs on the tail of one of the expresses on Corfe and makes a good conversation starter. There's no identification on it; I've always assumed it's a Roxey kit. The stepboard had come adrift and one of the long lower steps was also wrapped back on itself, probably by clumsy handling. Luckily I was able to resolder the stepboard without visibly affecting the solebar paint (as I have no idea what colour that is). Then something I've never seen before. I serviced all the locos over Christmas, except four which were kept on the layout to run a few trains over the Christmas opening and which i now had. I cleaned and oiled three of the outstanding ones, then came to the Hornby 700. This has been a bit of a mixed bag since we acquired it - it ran beautifully initially, but then the motor gave up after less than a year and more recently I was told that it would only run backwards as it went out of quarter going forwards. I found that curious, but when it went into the cradle, sure enough, it was fine backwards, but ticked and then jammed going forwards. The rear wheels also had far too much play, exposing the hole in the connecting rods at their extreme and making me wonder whether the hole had opened up and was allowing the crankpin to slip out of the rod. When I took one crankpin out, the hole was intact, but on examining the pin I found that the (steel?) rod had machined away the (brass) crankpin behind the hex head such that there was only a tiny pillar of brass holding the head to the rest of the screw. My camera will only barely focus anywhere near enough to show it: I can't find the crankpins on their own as a spare, only as part of the rod set. Is that right? 1 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gr.king Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 (edited) Is the hole in the rod "flat" across the width of the rod, with nice smooth finish, as opposed to rough or knife-edged? You could have hours of fun "faffing around" turning up a new set of pins, perhaps in a different metal, with low-tech tools..... Would a bush be worth considering? Edited March 2, 2020 by gr.king Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted March 2, 2020 Author Share Posted March 2, 2020 I haven't dismantled it any further, but I have a feeling the threaded sleeve into which the crankpin screws should project from the face of the wheel to form a bush. Something will have to be done, or it'll be as bad again in a year's time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pebbles Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 Why not give Hornby at Margate a Ring. If you find the right individual they will provide advice, and indeed some years ago they sent me a couple of crankpins for a 9F. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
micklner Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 2 hours ago, jwealleans said: I haven't dismantled it any further, but I have a feeling the threaded sleeve into which the crankpin screws should project from the face of the wheel to form a bush. Something will have to be done, or it'll be as bad again in a year's time. The next Driver if ok still, will give you the answer . Just looked at prices, the Drivers , (in the posted picture the bushes look flush) £8, Coupling rods £3.20 . I would change the lot while spares are still obtainable. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jwealleans Posted March 27, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 27, 2020 Well, isn't the world a different place since that last post? Sadly for my modelling progress (but not my sanity) I'm officially a key worker so it's been nose to the grindstone for me. Not key enough to be allowed into supermarkets early, but I can threaten my children with being sent back to school, so it's not completely disastrous. Things presently on my workbench - I seem to have a glut of almost-finished models just at the moment. When the Bachmann O4 first came out, I recall saying that we ought to get hold of one for Corfe and convert it to an ROD example just back from France. Several hundred were hired out to the different railways while the locos they'd sent for the war effort were repaired or replaced. Corfe falls exactly into the 1919-22 timespan where they'd have been seen so it was really a no brainer. If there had been suitable buffers available I'd have done one a long time ago, but Bachmann have now saved me the trouble. This is an the LNWR example with replacement plates from 247. It would have been a straightforward paint and renumber, but I've had awful problems with paint reacting. Only on the cab sides and tender rear, though, which makes me think it's to do with the printing process. Whatever they've got on there is tenacious - it's had 3 strips and repaints and it's still visible, but with weathering it'll have to do. This is almost done - weathering, crew, fire irons and it's about there. As like the rest of the National Trust we're now closed for the foreseeable future, there's no real rush. I did a few pacifics for Grantham last year and the year before and found I had enough bits left to make another A1. So why not the only A1 which remained an A1 - Great Northern herself. So far this has only had plates and a renumber, I need to check there's nothing unique to this loco which needs doing. This rebuilt Howlden was illustrated back upthread. I kept as many original parts as possible, including the roof, which has acquired that rather perky angle at one end. I'm not sure whether I can do anything about that now. Grab handles and no smoking labels to add and an interior to make. I'm on with glazing the quad set at the moment - it's laborious but we're getting there. Then there's the same finishing touches and four more interiors to make. I thought we might have seen more of these in this forum - Bill B's resin 6 wheelers. I know Mr King has one or two about his person. All in all they're a good thing and this one has been easy to put together. I did manage, despite taking care, to break some of the bearing holders and will probably use brass ones next time. I also broke off part of the brake gear putting that together. You will see that the floor unit has adopted a slight curve - gluing it to the body will cure that - and the roof has done the same. Again, once clipped into place I don't see a problem. The glazing slides into slots in the sides; excellent idea and looks great but I had to trim a gnat's crotchet off each piece before it would slide in flat. I chose to remove the moulded door handles and replace with brass; having tried the cast commode handles (picture 1) I think I'll replace with MJT (picture 2). The body also required slight chamfering at one end before it slid over the floor unit as intended. All in all I liked this - enough modelling required to be satisfying and personalised, but way less effort than a full kit. I have a BT to finish and I wouldn't think twice about some more. Hattons seemed to be selling the Hornby LMS horseboxes cheaply for ever, so I bought a couple. Then I seem to have forgotten and bought some more. When I had a tidy up I found I had all these. Still, you can never have too many. I have a photo of 12 of these in a Hunt Special somewhere in deepest Suffolk, so they'll be right at home on Wickham Market. If they're not... I'll find a prewar layout to run them on. There have had to be some wagons. The IMP I acquired a while ago and it's been hanging around for a while. The GC coal wagon came out from 51L earlier in the year. Bachmann grain hoppers are not easy to find, but the 'Worthington' variant seems not to have sold as well as expected and you can pick them up for less than the others. Once the extra walkways are removed they're a straightforward paint and letter. Transfers by CCT. And finally..... I have no recollection of how I acquired this, undoubtedly in a job lot somewhere, but I fancied a bit of variety and found that this is a Riley Monaco, a vehicle of 1934 origins. I know a layout where it would be right at home... colour scheme from a preserved example on the net (hope it's accurate) and all I need to now is find somewhere to park it where the stream of Faller variants can't run into it. 21 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted March 28, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 28, 2020 10 hours ago, jwealleans said: Hattons seemed to be selling the Hornby LMS horseboxes cheaply for ever, so I bought a couple. Then I seem to have forgotten and bought some more. When I had a tidy up I found I had all these. Still, you can never have too many. I have a photo of 12 of these in a Hunt Special somewhere in deepest Suffolk, so they'll be right at home on Wickham Market. If they're not... I'll find a prewar layout to run them on. Good idea painting each side in a different livery... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted March 29, 2020 Author Share Posted March 29, 2020 Not an idea for which I can claim any credit. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erichill16 Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 Regarding the Bachmann O4 I had a nightmare when I tried renumbering it. Unfortunately I took too much paint off the cabs sides and exposed the plastic. The paint I used reacted with the Bachmann Finnish, it took ages to rectify. Eventually I got my Yeadon out to select a Mexborough loco and then realised the one Bachmann choose was a Mexborough loco! Well at least now it’s been renumbered so it’s not the same one as everyone else’s . keep wel Robert 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted March 30, 2020 Author Share Posted March 30, 2020 I don't believe I've tried repainting these before - I have a feeling I've managed to renumber without excessive damage to the paint and have just varnished over the new transfers. It's a flaming nuisance, I know that. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erichill16 Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 12 hours ago, jwealleans said: I don't believe I've tried repainting these before - I have a feeling I've managed to renumber without excessive damage to the paint and have just varnished over the new transfers. It's a flaming nuisance, I know that. I seam to remember having an issue when I only renumbered and applied the acrylic varnish to another Bachmann loco. The varnish wouldn’t stay in a film, it formed droplets on the surface. I think I wiped the varnish off whilst still wet and then wiped the body in acyrylic thinner and then the varnish adhered better. Not done much modelling recently but haven’t had that problem with Hornby’s B2 or W4 Peckets. Regards Robert 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
manna Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 On 01/03/2020 at 13:23, Barry O said: They be the ones but also some for sand and alumina (although these may haveen recycled grain wagons) Alas Welwyn GC now bosts a large delapidated factoey... wonder where Nabisco make the same cerials now? Baz G'day Folks I believe Nabisco's moved down to the West country. manna 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted April 13, 2020 Author Share Posted April 13, 2020 6 wheelers are now complete. The XCL very much as described above. The XBT was a different story and a great deal more work. The sides were a heroically bad fit over the underframe - I had to file almost 1mm off the seats before it would fit at all and then more off the rebate round the top of the floor to get it to sit down properly. I managed to snap a corner off one side, but it went back without being too obvious. The glazing needed trimming but all the slots were blocked with resin and none of them would slide in as intended - most of them were cut to just oversize and then popped into their slots from the back, with some simply being glued in. The underframe was also a different width to the CL - both run freely, but the centre axle on the CL simply slotted into the moulding, while on the BT I had to put bearings in to narrow the gap slightly before the supplied centre axle system would fit. This is the point where I would usually run them and see whether the centre axle system works and also whether some weight would be beneficial. That will have to wait until normality resumes. For the moment I'd stick to my conclusion earlier - these are not quite 'clip together and run' models, you need to do some modelling and you have the option of doing more if you wish. At the end of the day I now have two carriages which sit nicely with the ones I already had and for less effort than a brass kit. This weekend I've gone back to the J6 which has not really had much done to it since before Christmas. Chassis is now running and today I detailed loco and tender almost to a conclusion. I still need to fit the smokebox door and some of the little lubrication pipe runs to the loco and also find the buffer which hurtled off into oblivion while I was cleaning it up. Again, I'd like to be giving this some time round a layout but for the moment the rolling road will have to suffice. 18 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold trw1089 Posted April 13, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 13, 2020 Very nice Jonathan, especially the J6, the Nucast boiler and frames don’t look too bad in the end. I’ve been reading up on how to make 6 wheelers run well later as I have some ideas about building a couple of BZs if I can find any kits around. They do sound somewhat tricky to get running right though. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cctransuk Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 12 minutes ago, trw1089 said: I’ve been reading up on how to make 6 wheelers run well later as I have some ideas about building a couple of BZs if I can find any kits around. They do sound somewhat tricky to get running right though. I use the 'bogie and a half' principle - one outer axle in fixed W-irons; the other two axles running in inside bearings in a pair of basic inner frames, comprising simple strip brass, centrally pivoted on an old-fashioned brass frame spacer with an axial tapped hole and another central hole at right-angles. The central hole is the bogie pivot, and the axial hole is the pivot for the two inside frames. To stop the equalised bogie from 'crabbing', tube is placed over the axles between the frames, to keep them apart. Using the this design, you have 'milking stool' equalisation, which gives excellent running. John Isherwood. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold trw1089 Posted April 13, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 13, 2020 50 minutes ago, cctransuk said: I use the 'bogie and a half' principle - one outer axle in fixed W-irons; the other two axles running in inside bearings in a pair of basic inner frames, comprising simple strip brass, centrally pivoted on an old-fashioned brass frame spacer with an axial tapped hole and another central hole at right-angles. The central hole is the bogie pivot, and the axial hole is the pivot for the two inside frames. To stop the equalised bogie from 'crabbing', tube is placed over the axles between the frames, to keep them apart. Using the this design, you have 'milking stool' equalisation, which gives excellent running. John Isherwood. thanks John, very helpful. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted April 14, 2020 Author Share Posted April 14, 2020 I'm usually no more complex than running 6 wheel vehicles as 4 wheelers with the middle axle dangling on a piece of wire. For a BZ, if you mean the Thompson one, you won't find better than Ian MacDonald's kit. For the more general pregrouping ones, you're probably fighting the rest of us on Ebay or looking at Bill's resin ones above. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted April 14, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 14, 2020 32 minutes ago, jwealleans said: I'm usually no more complex than running 6 wheel vehicles as 4 wheelers with the middle axle dangling on a piece of wire. I sometimes take the middle wheelset out altogether... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gr.king Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 On 27/03/2020 at 21:01, jwealleans said: I thought we might have seen more of these in this forum - Bill B's resin 6 wheelers. I know Mr King has one or two about his person. He does, and the frustration caused by not being able to find the time yet to get on with those, and many other things on his "to do" list has been quite intense. He is encouraged by the visible results of your efforts, and he might actually get round to dealing with his own examples now that hideous fate has handed him something of a golden opportunity via the obliteration of the normal working week. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieR4489 Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 On 01/10/2019 at 07:43, jwealleans said: Flare, coal rails, guard irons and some Milliput to make good the corner. The curve is formed with a set of fingers which you flood with solder and then use filler to form the final shape. Morning Jonathan, I'm just about to start the horseshoe tender for my LRM D2 and I’m not too sure about how best to form the flare. The instructions suggest annealing - did you bother with this and if so how did you go about it, please? Do you have any advise of what (and what not) to do? Cheers, Jamie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 On 14/04/2020 at 06:12, St Enodoc said: I sometimes take the middle wheelset out altogether... Our local steelworks did that, when they found that the Bulleid tender chassis they had bought wouldn't go round the curves in the works. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted April 22, 2020 Author Share Posted April 22, 2020 Quote The instructions suggest annealing - did you bother with this and if so how did you go about it, please? Do you have any advise of what (and what not) to do? Jamie, Arthur Kimber put me on to a trick some years ago and I used it again this time. Have a look at this post and it should become clear. It makes it very easy indeed. I didn't anneal it, just cleaned it up and then did the business with the vice. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium ArthurK Posted April 22, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 22, 2020 I form the flares in all my NER tenders and supply these with my kits. I was doing so many I made a special tool to help. This consists of a piece of thick walled brass (1/8th ID) tube filed down to half its diameter the flare is placed in that. Then with a piece of 1/8th silver steel on top the whole is squashed in a vice. ArthurK 4 1 6 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted April 24, 2020 Author Share Posted April 24, 2020 Been working on wagons again this week. I dug out some of the job lot of part finished whitemetal kits I bought back in November '18 and did the remaining work. Some went straight into paint, some needed a little finishing off. Most of what I picked out this time turned out LMS and mainly ex-L&Y. The bolster wagons are all David Geen kits, I believe. I'll add the chains when I weather and load them. The open is North Staffordshire (luckily it was written on the underside, I might never have found it) and is a 51L kit. MAJ and Cambrian opens. I was surprised to see the brake gear on the L & Y, it's what I'm used to seeing on fitted LNER wagons, but I find it is correct for these unfitted vehicles. 51L and ABC fish vans. The sort of vehicle you can always find a use for. These are part of a lot of 5 I bought on Ebay probably 15 years ago under the impression they were meat vans. I sold one on and left the rest in a drawer as the brake gear had largely been wrecked. Chance acquisition of an ABS pack of said gear and the desire to have a bit of variety in the Scotch Goods on Grantham brought them to my attention again. I've also acquired Southern Wagons Volume 4 since buying them and that was how I found they were banana vans, not meat. The primary visual difference is horizontal rather than vertical planking and given that they'll be in motion when in view, the livery is all but identical and (I gather) meat traffic wouldn't have been sent by the Scotch Goods anyway, they can go in and damn the torpedoes. 13 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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