bobthemilk

Seller by the name 'AT MODEL SHOP' / atmodel18 on ebay has a large selection of graham farish oo gauge  ( possibly one of each example ) locomotives and coaches , the AI descriptions are varied and verbose :  )

I hope others find this of interest including the elusive 4 wheel coach - ebay item number 364871773222

Bob

On 19/04/2024 at 12:47, trainman0 said:

I've been looking for a while now, Where can I find one? I don't care if it's a non-runner!

eBay item number-156191259468

And another one

Binns road site http://www.binnsroad.co.uk/railways/rocket/index.html

Hope this helps 

a bit

Bob

On 26/04/2024 at 09:42, Captain Slough said:

Somewhere on RMWeb theres a pic of a Farish 5 running with a Dublo castle chassis (early type with "half-inch" motor rather than Ringfield, a ringfield would never fit), and Dublo 8F tender

 

Which gets rid of all the metal fatigue and chassis problems, at least.

Serious amounts of metal to be removed to make the body fit

Serious amount of metal to be removed to make the h/d chassis fit

Bob

On 19/04/2024 at 12:47, trainman0 said:

I've been looking for a while now, Where can I find one? I don't care if it's a non-runner!

Some on ebay right now.........................

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/166725692249

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/256486803853

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/256488044741

all from the same ebayer

Bob

On 19/04/2024 at 12:47, trainman0 said:

I've been looking for a while now, Where can I find one? I don't care if it's a non-runner!

A bit thin on the ground recently and prices seem to have gone up . Are you after any 'bits' in particular ?

On 20/04/2024 at 14:23, Captain Slough said:

Dublo 8F tender body might be a good replacement

8f tender is a bit longer

Bob 

Could be lack of knowledge

quick buck syndrome

and the punter wont know any different........................

Here is another ebay special , what attracted me was the AI / verbose description

ebay item number 256478572468

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/aZAAAOSw3jtmGm-I/s-l1600.webp

Bob

Oops cant quite get the link I wanted but supplied item number

This was on eBay last week and went for £39.95 plus postage , a farish body but an early triang princess tender body . Split tender chassis? for pickup and original traction tyres .

If I see enough of these already "converted" it may spur me on to have a go , hmm

Noticed this after it finished on e bay  today , what I assume to be a G/F Hudson tender chassis It was in a job lot of chassis's, a nondescript H/D Duchess , a Triang bob and an unknown , £36+ . A bit of a beast , size wise

On 29/01/2024 at 19:45, rockershovel said:

I was scratching my head over this one till I realised...... the chassis is back to front. 

 

Reverse the chassis and it would be a classic late 19th century "long boiler" 0-6-0

 

You could do that with one of these...https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse4.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.7Fp1TDYZgyghXU9LdiFlhwHaC9%26pid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=f870b234bda505a87a0a2dc8e21ddcc00e62ef183b0cf6911efb85f7e26238b3&ipo=images

quite rare I'm told and there was an article in constructor/modelller in the mid late 60's H0-scale Rivarossi 'Bourbonnais'

On 05/02/2024 at 17:24, Hacksworth_Sidings said:

Wasn’t there a similar conversion shown in a magazine a few decades ago? Though it was much smaller, utilising the pug boiler as opposed to a 3F’s, can’t remember where I’ve seen it, certainly on RMWeb*, possibly hidden somewhere on the Airfix/Kitmaster thread…

 

Regardless, I’m all for crazy, unorthodox locomotives, love seeing such designs being produced bad physical models instead of just being in the realm of drawings!
 

*Found it! 33C had sent me photos of these articles a few months ago, top is a double fairlie Pug, bottom is the garratt I mentioned…

 

The bottom article was my inspiration

And I bought that magazine when it came out with my pocket money . Was it really so long ago

On 17/02/2024 at 23:03, Hacksworth_Sidings said:

Does she actually run? Those chassis’s look to be Dapol’s/Hornby’s rather than the ones supplied in the kits…

I had originally built it with airfix chassis as supplied and always wanted it to run , and the years went and one day by chance I  bought cheaply , one and half Dapol pugs and replaced the non runners with them . The motor is in the 'tender' and will pull eight or nine wagons or a couple of four wheel coaches. There is a big lump of fishing weight bashed to fit to keep it level

And this was posted by sagaguy ,  thank you , on an earlier thread in April last year

2 hours ago, bobthemilk said:

And this from our very own , https://www.youtube.com/@sncf231e , showing an X03/4 in action

And then search Graham farish oo gauge 

DOH!

Edit due to smart phone being clever

And this from our very own , https://www.youtube.com/@sncf231e , showing an X03/4 in action

And then search Graham farish oo gauge 

DOH!

Edit due to smart phone being clever

On 19/02/2024 at 13:03, Hacksworth_Sidings said:

The motor has two arms on the shaft, as the motor turns over the centrifugal force swings the arms outwards, these engage with a dish on the first reduction gear, providing a smooth take up of the drive when giving 12V directly from a standstill. (Clutch assembly pictured below, will be able to get more photos this weekend)

 

It is for this reason that examples with the clutch removed in favour of a permanent coupling will stall on points with insulated frogs if there aren’t any modifications to the pickup system, as the model only picks up power in a small range (I believe the pickup range, using only the plungers on the tender, is less than 1cm, so you’ll need some serious speed to get over points if you’re relying only on the plungers on a drive with the motor permanently coupled!)

 

 

The model pictured with the 2 pole motor runs rather nicely, so I’m keeping it in original condition, the other I’m planning on fitting wiper pickups to the loco, to combat the issues caused by such a short pickup range.

Found some pictures lurking in the darkest files on my laptop ( whilst looking for something else! ) that may or may not help , a before shot and some after . I think an airfix motor is being used

Apologies if these belong to 'you' , I show purely to spread some knowledge about these locos . TIA

PS I have somewhere a tech sheet on how to set these motors up , apologies again if you have seen it before but if I find it , I will post

I like that very much

Mine from March/April 2017 from the missing pictures

On 05/02/2024 at 17:12, 25kV said:

It's been a long while since I built an Airfix/Dapol Pug...  In fact I think it was around 1980 if this photo is dated accurately.  I'd just built the one on the left - the one on the right is the remains of my dad's Kitmaster attempt from a generation earlier.  No paint, just decals straight on to plastic. 

 

Inspired by this thread a mere 44 years on (with a pause in other projects while waiting for paint), I wondered if it might be time to build another Pug kit or two... and perhaps create a small variation on the original.  Not sure whether it truly qualifies for this topic, as it's unpowered and the wheels won't even rotate fully, but here it is anyway!  Not sure how this is going to blend in with the APT fleet, but whatever!

 

Presenting the Pugger-Garratt, an insane L&Y design for hauling massively long freights along tightly curved dockside sidings under low bridges on incredibly steep hills.  Seen here sitting on a bit of OO gauge track dumped unceremoniously atop my dad's OO9 layout for the scenic backdrop.

 

The boiler is from a Hornby 3F body, I think - it looked "about right" on the Peter's Spares website, albeit a Midland design rather than L&Y.  Cab, tanks, running gear, chimney and dome are from the pug kits; the coal bunker (inspired by the design of a NZ Garratt) is carved from an old Dapol 9F kit tender (I pulled it apart to investigate whether the 9F's boiler might suit - it might have suited...), while the mid-section frame is plasticard and H-beams.  Some very basic plastic-rod-in-hole pivots provide articulation.

 

A bit of Photoshop AI smoke just for fun.  It's still in need of some numbers and a couple of other details.  I wanted to keep a certain Puggishness to the look of the loco, hence trying to find a boiler of similar dimensions to the curve of the original saddle tanks, and using the chimney/dome from the kit (probably impractical in reality for a that size of boiler!).

 

Broadside view - it comes in at about a scale 60ft over the buffers.  I suspect in reality it'd need a little more in the way of wheels ... I completely failed to install weights in the tanks, so both engine units are ever-so-slightly nose-up with the weight of the boiler on their tails.

 

Catching the rays on the curve, and highlighting my badly-carved plasticard end plates on the tanks...

 

Stabled with my more usual traction preferences.

 

And as for what happened to that 1980 pug kit ...

 

 

It spent a few decades in the attic, but was rolled out to meet its crazy cousin. 😉

 

Many years ago in another life I had retail tobacco shop and belonged to the Association of Independent Tobacco Specialists , and sold various size cigarette filters , regular , medium and slimline for the hand rolling trade . If you go to the site there is a 'find a retailer ' function , and maybe there is a filter out there that will fit .

Also Zippo lighter ( petrol ) fuel is less 'smelly' than Ronson  , but both need to be treated with respect .

regards

Bob

On 04/03/2023 at 07:16, papagolfjuliet said:

I recently acquired a pair of Reidpath 0-6-0T bodies, and was wondering if any RTR chassis could be modified to fit them. I'm assuming that the ex-Dapol Terrier and the Hornby Peckett B2 would be likely candidates, along perhaps with the Bachmann Thomas.

I also have a couple of Reidpath bodies , both different , and acquired a Dapol terrier chassis for the use of  , it will fit one body shape but not the other ( not without removing some heavy metal ) Had looked at the mainline J72 but the amount of filing and cutting was another reason for another rainy day job

Also looked at the J94 , but gave up trying to remove the body  from chassis , as life is too short 

                                                                                                                                                             ( rainy day job )

1 hour ago, Johnson044 said:

Aha! That was quick! Thanks Captain Slough- it was The Warriors of the English Iron Road. Nearly right!

 

http://www.robertnewson.co.uk/articles/Riverseries.html

 

Not a bad model apart from the rather bizarre cab side window.

Evocative of the budgie 0-6-0

Iain Rice in his book on chassis building recommends a length of neoprene rubber tube to connect two shafts, if I can find some?.............................

Hi relaxinghobby

Flexible fuel pipe from a radio control petrol engined boat/plane/copter/car emporium may do the trick

regards

bobthemilk

On 25/10/2021 at 08:26, Barclay said:

Hi Bob - I described it in a thread on the industrial section last year, so I have posted a link below which contains all the gory details. The ultimate kit basher of this casting was apparently pre-war modeller extraordinaire, the Rev. Edward Beal, who made all sorts of loco's. out of them.

 

Regards

 

Hi Barclay 

Many thanks but with my ten thumbs and aptitude for  making easy  things difficult that is something to aspire to ..................... : )

regards

Bob

On 25/10/2021 at 08:26, Barclay said:

 

 

On 05/10/2021 at 14:44, Barclay said:

Not quite R-T-R but these cast lead tank engine bodies by Stewart Reidpath have some potential. It was a generic tank engine body which I think originated in HO scale before the war but was widened subsequently when 00 became more popular.

 

Conversion to an industrial loco in EM gauge that looks a certain amount like a Hawthorn Leslie locomotive involved grinding off the smokebox extension plus splashers and sandboxes with a Dremel. It then received a new smokebox wrapper from 10 thou brass riveted in the GW Models press, a chimney from the spares box and a GE N7 dome from SE Finecast. Safety valves are Tri-ang. The chassis frames and rods are leftovers from an Impetus Bagnall kit and the cylinders/slidebars/crossheads are scratchbuilt.

 

Power is from a Minebea 6 pole motor driving Romford 40:1 gears using a Branchlines motor mount/gearbox. 

 

 

 

Hi Barclay

I have a couple of these that I have aquired over the years , any chance of a few pictures of the chassis to give me an some inkling of what I could do with mine

many thanks in anticipation

regards

Bob