Alan Higgi

"I now needed to form a couple of cavities in the lead over the top of the motor to accommodate the two capacitors which had previously been soldered to the rear of the motor."

Does one need capacitors? I have left them on some locos but removed them on others.

Hi Ray

Looking for pics. I have pmed you 2. Keep watching as I only got back home Sun night.

Hi Ray

I will have some info for you shortly --it's cross reffing about 20 books with my notes and photos! Working away from home Weds on for a week but on my return I have some bank days. I am "on" a couple of Brits too!

Great stuff, Ray, as always. I think the white roof was a "Statford Special" and  not limited to Brit 0. Your comments on 70004 are helpful in that I have photo circa '63 with the old emblem and one  circa '62

with the later emblem.

I can give you a list, if you requre, of all the brits with handrails on the deflectors.

Nice one, Ray.

Just use a black permanent marker on wheels/valve gear and handrails. Quicker than paint and ten times as resilient.

Great post! I hate the post April '63 yellow stripe on first class coaches. So as the first, second and composite sleepers are the same bodyshell. I  know my way out of that one.

Wow! I was not aware of your location. Sorry. Super area but a disadvantage if you run out of bits. I am so disorganised but can get (almost) anything next day.

On the lamp codes - it was A,B,C etc in 1960 and 1,2,3 etc post 1962 I was going to post it here but can't work out how.

Peter's Spares are good for mail order on lamps if you cannot get them locally or at shows. There was some one else that used to do lamps beside Springside - a larger disc "light" but I cannot for the life of me remember who?

Springside lamps with a .7 dia hole and filled with a very tiny bit of bluetack.

How about a Comet Chassis? I had this swapping of motors/chassis thing with a trio of B1s some years back and ended up with the  Comet Chassis option on one of them. It is by far the best runner of the 52 locos I own.

The Masterpiece ones look the best and are heavy but the Bachmann ones are good too

Thanks Ray the 38xx is so near haulage wise it pulls 39 of my 41 wagon coal train! I think the 1mm lead cab floor/ masterpiece crew dodge may well do it

...........snug fit within the boiler which comes carefully filled with metal ballast..

Hi Ray

Is there room for any more? A mate asked me if I could "tweak" a 38xx for him and I don't want to dismantle for nothing.

Again you are the leader and I would think if ther was room for another 40g you would have done it?

I would think that might be a bit difficult to obtain! Also I don't think I could cut or shape it. This is what I have found with the Tungsten. I mean Great for a standard wagon weight but a fixed size for Locos? Maybe in a bunker or smokebox mixed with lead shot? Early days.
In any event 330-350g is plenty for my needs.

Keep 'em coming Ray. Bouncing off each other is great but don't throw any spent uranium at me.  I think we are staying with lead but if you recall the piece in the top of the Jubilee fire box weighed 11. 4g

 we would have had

18.95 g/cc Uranium,11.35 g/cc Lead, 19.32 g/cc Gold, 19.35 g/cc Tungsten,19.84 g/cc Plutonium, 21.45 g/cc Platinum, 22.4 g/cc Iridium, 22.6 g/cc Osmium !

You are the leader again! My WD was relegated to light duties too but following your post is

Nicely done SS. And well illustrated. I had been told you can get the Jubilees up to 390g but I was satisfied at 332 and you at 310 so enough is as good as. Next the Stanier pacifics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There is a superglue remover made by Loctite. It works on cycle locks that have been sabotaged but I have not tried it on anything else!

Great

Inspirational; Just took advantage of Hatton's Evening Star give away and it's about No 3 in the new projects list. All the things you mention were in need of attention. Also I was not entirely convinced on the boiler bands and lining. Sometimes these things can get lost under a bit of grime and sometimes the faults get accentuated. Again well done and, as it's easier to be a follower than a leader, I await the completion.

Just picked this up and wondered how it went?