Cy Lindercocks

Re  the   Problem of  height I reprted  earlier:-

 

I think  I know the  reason  for  the  height  difference,  the coupled  driving  wheels appear to be mounted in a sub frame this  is secured by a single central screw  at the  front end ( not sure how the  rear is  secured but possibly it fits into a slot in the main frame.

 

When both locos  were inverted I found  that pressing  this  subframe cased no movement on the  green loco, but on the  black one  theres was  upwards movement which meant  that the main frame of the loco could  be in a higher position than it  should be,  the  cab end of the loco is exactly the same hight as the green one so the height difference is only noticable at the front end of the loco.

 

I found  that  the  screw  holding in the  subframe  was tightl BUT examining the same screw on green loco  noticed  that the Black one's screw was slightly more exposed!!!

 

To cut a long  story  shorter!  the Black screw  appear to have been cross threaded, thus not screwed in far enough and allowing  the subframe a little movement thus causing  the  height difference.

 

The  solution was to use  a slightly longer  screw  which screwed in further  and now  holds the subframe solidly  ALL SORTED OUT,  I hope that  some one  from  Bachmann reads this  or someone passes the info on!

I have often found that screws securing then body to chassis on Bachmann locos. are cross threaded.

This is interesting, Bachmann invoice prior to dispatch, some dealers have told me they been invoiced for their full allocation, another says he has been allocated enough to satisfy pre-orders only and two have said that they have yet to be invoiced for any. 

I have 9017 on per-order but was looking for another to re-number, hence my ringing around.