6892 Oakhill Grange

OK so I can stop going to “box openers anonymous” and get back to melting my credit card on Hatton.co.uk. Thanks for curing me!

Tell me more about welded tanks. Flush riveted tanks until sometime around WW1 then visible rivets. I thought visible rivets for ever. It always seemed strange that Pannier started to appear with welded tanks while Collet 4000 gal tenders with rivets were being churned out for another 20+ years. Oakhill

A rather confusing roundabout.

May just be an optical illusion but the handrail appears to be below the washout plugs as well. Oh someone else just posted that - ooops!

Did the Finchings retire there?

With a bunker fender and no oil lubricator box on the tanks. Fender back on and oil box off my Southall 5500?

This is an update to my comment on the very unserious MRJ 253 thread about BA not supplying complementary MRJ on its Middle East routes. We discovered that Cathay Pacific also did not supply aforementioned mag and that the first bus to Morley was also lacking in interesting reading. However this was recently seen in the posh seats on Qatar Airways So all that nasty stuff that the Saudis have been saying about the Qataris is obviously rubbish.

According to RCTS Part 8 the first 40 (or so) were built with 3500 gal tenders. So any of those would do, but a number of 4000 gallon tenders were built simultaneously with the first Halls (accounting reasons?) . If you have a brand new loco sitting outside the works and a new tender, do you; a. couple them together and send them out. Or b. Wait until a Castle comes in to do a swap. I suspect the RCTS is too simplistic! Oakhill

Lever reverse?

And apologies for not reading subsequent posts

According to the allocation data in The Great Western Railway 150 Glorious Years, RODs at Bristol and Westbury would be the nearest as of 31/12/47. Oakhill

Ok so my multimeter had a flat battery. A quick trip to a smoke alarm solved this (I returned it within minutes) and I was able to test the speaker. This was 4.3 ohms about as expected. So the speaker is fine. Suspects remaining; 1. Hamfisted installation 2. Decoder 3. My old ztc a quick check earlier revealed that the Duette was still working. So a test on DC should be possible. Oakhill

Oakhill Grange is very unhappy with DCC Sound right now (or himself!!!) I have been installing a Loksound 4 in a Bachmann small Prairie. The decoder is hardwired and both the pickup and speaker wires have been extended to make it fit. Some time ago the sound stopped and then after some time it came back. This may have been on DC but I can't remember. Since then someone has dropped my old Duette and DC testing is no longer possible. Yesterday I checked the speaker wires and found one has been crushed through to the copper, but the other appeared crushed with the insulation intact. One of the soldered joints on the speaker extension wires was loose and this was resoldered. I checked all the other joints and removed the damaged sections to no avail. This evening I put the loco in the programming track and attempted to check the decoder by reading CV63 (volume). The ZTC511 returned the error message "track overload" and the result was garbage. Reading CV29 was possible. Several attempts at reading and programming CV63 were failures. The motor control functionality of the chip still works. So does anyone know what I have done to this chip? I have read elsewhere about the unsuitabilty of the 511 for programming the Loksound4. I may have blown the sound functions by squeezing the wires and shorting the amp. Thanks for your help Oakhill

Wolverhampton started churning out 2021s in 1897 according to Wikipedia. Too lazy to check Russell on an honorary Saturday night and bedtime is rapidly approaching. I think you need an 0850. Oakhill

I filed a notch in the keeper plate below the middle axle to achieve the same. It seems strange that Bachmann provided the springing and then overly restricted the travel. Oakhill

Hi How were you able to do this so neatly? When I try similar I get a scratched disaster. Adrian

Early 5101s built with large safety valve bonnet and a fender like the Airfix (kit and RTR) model. RCTS part 9 gives the exact numbers for the fender and safety valve covers change Castle's point about different tank fillers was interesting. So I googled 6106 and saw those screw down fillers. Further searching was a little fruitless, 6154 in Russell has the quick open type. Overall I don't have sufficient photographic evidence to pin down when the change to quick opening fillers was made. Add in the retrofit of shutters to early 5101s and 61xx, I could probably model 8 variations if I considered 29th February 1933 was my modelling date. I would of course get scorn because all GW locos look the same. Does anyone know when the fillers changed? New cab panniers were still being built in 1935 with screw down fillers 2 years after 6154 had appeared. Oakhill

Sorry, wasn't Derfingerpocken scuttled in Scapa Flow long before the period of your layout?

Ugly and deadly. Probably should never have been sanctioned but filled a gap in the national arsenal at a vital time. Very nice piece of work.

I see Dapol are quoting 4 liveries and Hatton are listing 5 liveries. This is still putting me off ordering as I am not sure what I would be buying.

The position from Edinburgh (temporary summer exile from the heat of Muscat) is the we don't want to remove the blue until at least next year. Oakhill

A380s apparently.

Everyone knows that Paddington is the centre of the universe not just of London. I K Brunel

Email works for me.. send order by email and phone for payment. Queries have also been answered by email.