Graham456

Whilst perusing a model shop I noticed a new (one to me) Great Western Wagon from Bachmann, its catalogue No 37-068 5 plank wagon GWR gray, now for years I have mourned the poor rtr options for GWR opens,especially as the local kit maker (paul Dunn) seem to have gone down the plug hole! Now this model does not yet appear in the list of GWR rtr models on the GWR org list of models, is that because like all previous GWR rtr opens it's a thing of fantasy, or is it just to New to appear on the list yet? And of less importance! Why is the mortan brake lever left in black plastic by Bachmann? I have oodles of coopercraft vans but not enough opens, so I have my fingers crossed that this is real, even if it's a bit of a late model not haveing a DC brake

One crude way that I will own up to don't involve bent drills, just a plain old clean tip on a soldering iron, Place top hat bearing in plastic dimple also known as the old bearing apply soldering iron to new top hat bearing and GENTLY melt it into the axelbox to the depth required By melting the brass top hat bearing into place it will hold at a shallow insertion depth, closeing up a far greater distance than you need this works very well on the ratio open C that a lot of people can't seam run right according to threads on hear! Just do it in stages so you don't go to far.....not only will to much enthusiasm melt the axel box outside but you might go to far in! P S I all ways use the shoulderd bearings P P S keep it square/ flat to the W irons P P P S ( if their is such a thing) didn't their used to be a little gizmo like the truck Turner but it drilled one side at a time ready to fit brass bearings, wish it was still on the market

[quote name="bgman" post="3147654" timestamp="1525125872" Which of the parishioners good lady made it and can I have the recipe please ! G PLEASE ! Don't turn RMweb into a recipe swapping club ! Unless its pasty related !

Overnight dreaming/thinking wonder if the undecorated ones are chassis tests and are more likely to have the running bits ? Where as the painted ones are livery tests so don't need motors ? Can't touch mine until next week now to busy.

Surgery report two ! Forgot to mention the two screws under the coal load that hold the body to the footplate earlier ! And DOH ! Second one has no motor or gears ! Still looks pretty though and I didn't expect any of them to work when I bought them as cabinet fodder No complaints from me about the no motor, very happy with what I bought from Kernow suspect more proper ones will be bought by me to decorate the layout rather than the cabinet, that one in gray primer looks to tempting, hardly commonly seen like that in real life but can I resist?

Nor was I their just too cute I had to have some! Note some means more than one !.....mad maybe ! But I thought I would learn on the one it didn't matter about the paint job ! If it wasn't for 247 being their sokeing up my money as well I might no would have gone madder! Not for getting bring and buy, pastys, P S I did buy a good one as well !

Just wondering if the ones whose wheels spin as several at the show did just had the lower gears separated from the motor gear as the body wasn't clamping the two together Have fun and cross your fingers

Surgery report ! Well I said I was going to put the side rods together first ....but after a frustrating fiddle I picked up the body and as the station master said the body is in two parts the under boiler and bottom of the saddle tank is lightly glued to the rest of the tank, gentle levering persuaded them apart revealing the tiddly motor, which worked Yea Ha ! Fault was in the broken chip mounting in the bunker, and wiring being a Luddite it was just done away with I can understand why kernow haddent repaired it its time absorbing fiddle P S their are two clips at the front of the smokebox holding it to the footplate it was these I had accidentally released in fiddling with it, don't try removing the chassis from the footplate I have to get back to juggling to get mine back together but that will be in a few days time busy with my B&B for the next few days Sorry no pictures fatadder, I only have a Ipad and no picture size reducing gizmo The only proviso is this was a unpainted model and might not be so securely glued as a production model

So Far ! Removed couplings to get at the screws that hold the body on the chassis,this separated them.BUT the tail rod from the cross head to the vacuum pump which is glued to the footplate makes it a right caddie to get them fully apart, it dissolved into bits as the slide bars fell off/separated from the bracket and cylinder, currently typeing this whilst having a break from fiddling the two separate slide bars back in place dropping bits on the floor much fun ! But interestingly whilst gently pulling them apart the boiler/cab all gently separated from the footplate so I didn't have to undo any of the screws holding the chassis to the footplate, the chassis and wheels holding the gears are in the footplate chassis part, and the motor top gear tower stay in the body, the wires to the motor from the chassis are unscrewable from the lower chassis, my wires from the chassis were connected to nothing ! Might be why it didn't work First to get the chassis cylinders back to gather befor looking in the body Hope this helps anyone else who is fiddling with one of the non working ones

I and I would appreciate any guidance to get in mine as well, not yet getting fussy about splashergate, but I acquired a couple of non working prototypes as staplegrove, and live in hope of a quick lucky poke around like I did with my well tank last year, if not I have a nice cps chassis which was due to go under a K's model might go underneath one of them ! Not one of those unboxing videos ! But a unbodying video ! In another thread the topic is what have you done with your K's kit...the question is more what am I going to do with my K's 1361 kits......out classed even if it is fourty years on from a teenage build

Well looks like the first PASTY is gone Suppose that's one of the perks of early arrival

Sniggering at reading about all you early risers, 05.24 ! I am still lounging around at home, only got to go as far as two roundabouts then just past the first set of traffic lights and I am their! Yours smugly P S hope you enjoyed your meal last night

Dither,dither! Well eer umm , triang Nellie she has scampered around for 52 years since my third birthday so you have to admire that But how about the triang Lord of the Isles, especially when detailed up, what are the chance of a modern major manufacturer making a single wheeler for their main range( the Stirling single is limited) despite its age as proved on here it can be made in to a good model Or can I vote for my Airfix class 31, I was lucky enough to buy a good quite running one when New and despite all the moaning on the web mine has continued to behave quietly for the last thirty plus years lucky me ! On the near coaching stock front Lima LMS bogie GUV when fitted with Bachman LMS bogies And then Airfix and Mainline wagons such a vast improvement on anything we had befor and looked like wagons rather than toys, a particular favourite Mainline coke wagons, just don't mix then with modern scale sized stuff Edited to correct auto correct which dosen't like triang

Might not be up to today's standards but I find as the years pass my eye sight goes so to me they still look great

Price of beer had gone up to 80p by Jan 1981 ! Thinking about it I loved my Lilliput A2 the later tender drive type, thought it wonderfull, until Bachman brought there's out which made it look so wrong it had to go, but never bought a new A2 it just didn't look so good

You make it sound like hundreds of years ago ! I am only 55 and remember them comeing out! It's not that long ago.....or doesn't feel like it. By the way a pint of beer was 43p in 1978. So that's three pints to a wagon ! And now it's still around three pints to a four wheel wagon at full RRP so theirs no need to Sigh! Especially if you shop around and only pay two and a half pints!

What do you need your coat for ?.....if I can go for a Nelly what's wrong with her modernish version, hours of fun have been had carving up smoky joes, just look how many have been put under narrow gauge things

Well for me it has to be the Triang Nelly ! Why ? Well for the last fifty two years she has scampered around the track as youthfuly as she did when I was three , no chassis rot,no bits dropping off, no worries just fun when required Other than that it might be Mainline's 4MT what a game changer when it came out

Well try spelling it Grease, it comes up with the stuff you require, with out any mention of hot sunny beaches Doh beaten to it a few times whilst typing P S the slow running might because it's gummed up with to much oil !

Fully agree injection moulding equipment is so expensive, you need to squeeze out a few thousand to get your money back. Cheaper is to go down the route of dean sidings and golden arrow with a resin body on a RTR chassis, very similar to make up sticking bits on to a body and just as enjoyable to build I have found. But do you see thousands of these resin kit builds on layouts at shows...NO! So would the sales be enough?

30 minutes if you can find a space ! is not long enough unless you know what you want and pop in and not hang around but very slightly down the road on the opposite side of the road is a car park around two hundred feet away from the front door might cost you two quid but that's cheaper than a ticket

Well if you must blast it you need a small micron sized abrasive small of around 80 microns so it will get in the nicks aNd crannies preferably of a soft hardness on the mols scale so that the abrasive doesn't attack the metal like shot would Now I used to use calcite in my old job of stone cleaning through a tork stone cleaner,brilliant at cleaning up e,bay kitbuilds with out damaging the white metal......But it came in 25kg bags on a one ton pallet, so not a lot of help unless some one is doing a restoration job near you..I did do a job near you on Colchester Cathedral in the past! With it not a lot of help I know as it was befor we knew of your need , but the size and hardness advise might help

For sale! One unbuilt nucast kit..........that I won't have to build now That's a DJH 1363 I wasted my time on ....thanks Heljan A couple of Ks 1361s....thanks kernow Two wills stars. .....Hornby Ks adams radials...Hornby Falcon well tank...kernow DJH 7F...but I did at least build the big boiler one...Bachman B12 carved into a Claud Hamilton....Hornby Cotswold L&Y 2-4-2 tank....Bachman Ho hum what's next P.S The for sale is a joke ! More fun to build than watching TV

Yes your dustbin will take them!.....quite happily Or Perhaps some might like the wheels, I still have a few in service!

Well I have a few tins of precision paint from the Cheltenham address proberly bought in the eightys one or two which have been part used, despite which.a lot of elbow grease and a drop of thinner has brought them around The ninety eightys GWR loco green used to come in three shades back them (excluding the early pea green) the first of which was very dark until stirred and stirred, of course if it has tiny bits in it their proberly hardened pigment bits and it's had it