tonymilford

The wheels. Does anyone know what wheel standards Dapol have used. I bought mine with the intention of spreading the wheels to suit Scale Seven and, at Telford this year, I discussed this with the chap on the stand who told me that they were fine to do this. I have now started this and spread them to 31mm back to back only to find that the wheel geometry is such that the actual flange width to the root of the flange is nearly 1.25mm instead of the usual 1.0mm thus giving a gauge of 33.5mm instead of 33mm. To get the wheel to sit on the track, I have had to reduce the back to back to 30.5mm to get it to sit on plain 33mm track but now the back to back is too narrow to negotiate the point work. I am sure that anyone using O gauge ultra finescale will come across this same problem as they use the same flangeway dimension. Has anyone else tried this? Any ideas how to reduce the flange width without totally disassembling the wheels and axles