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Mainline (Palitoy) Stanier Tenders.


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I have a few boxed Mainline Jubilee and Royal Scot locos bought new when first released. I had no proper layout at the time so they have only had occasional test runs and are suffering non of the known problems associated with split chassis locos (yet). 

A while back I converted a Jubilee with Fowler tender for dcc by wiring a 4 pin jst lead into the tender which was successful.
Having a load of spare decoders after fitting sound to a lot of my locos I thought I would convert some more Mainline locos and chose one with a Stanier tender.
On removing the two fixing screws in the tender chassis I found I could not remove the body. It appeared to be glued in, so running a scalpel blade around it released it and I was surprised to find there had never been mounting points for the screws in the body, and a piece of polystyrene most probably used as a spacer until the glue dried. 
I examined another Stanier tender and found that to be similar, although after breaking the glue bond the body will still not come off. It also felt heavier than the previous one. Looking through the fireman's tool tunnel I could see some hard resin like material which must be bonding it all together. 
Were these tenders a botch up job?
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Just looked through the rest, 4, and they are ok.
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The botched ones were Royal Scot and Scots Guardsman which I think may have been the first releases and were the top of my pile.
It shouldn't be hard to put mounting points in, though I don't know what it is inside that is keeping the other one unopenable.

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20 hours ago, Free At Last said:

Were these tenders a botch up job?

'Production line expedient' is the term you are looking for. Big pile of tender bodies, produced and painted, just lacking the attachment points for assembly, and no way of shipping the locos without a tender. Major pat on the head goes to whoever organises a quick, cheap and dirty fix which solves this problem and has the end product in boxes and out to retail distribution without delay.

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20 hours ago, Steamport Southport said:

I still think they were ones planned for sound but they didn't fit it.

 

http://www.mainlinerailways.org.uk/Sound.htm

 

A bit like two of mine supposed to have been smoke fitted. Lydham Manor and Glorious.

 

http://www.mainlinerailways.org.uk/Smoke.htm

 

 

 

Jason

I remember reading about the sound fitted ones, but not the smoke. Never had any.

Sounds like a good explanation for the OP.

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