My pair of Britannias have so far performed faultlessly. Britannia herself has done about 20 hours on the test track and a little layout time- it is happy with 9" curves but not 8.9" curves! This one will either gain a Stratford Royal engine white cab roof or a change of identity- one of my earliest photos was 70033 Charles Dickens on Kingmoor shed in July 1965, still with its original handrails.
70004 is lighly weathered, and will get a little more. It completed a day of exhibition running before Christmas with only one problem- a ham-fisted operator picked it up by the tender after derailing it by changing a point underneath it and the drive shaft popped out. It sat on the station platform for 10 mins (poor operating) waiting for me to come back as he didn't know how to fix it. The shaft popped back with no problem, with the aid of a long slender screwdriver.
On oiling the worm- the long needle on some recent oil capsules will reach the back of the worm housing through the cab- but will it then actually get enough oil into the right place?
Les
