Sam Kennion

You might be better off repainting a body from BR Lines and pestering Steve to finally provide his etched chassis and upgrades. 🤔😎

Just stumbled upon this. Please could you re-post the track plan? Also, any news on progress?

I think the KiHa 40 is a second generation chassis (iirc), but as you say with the original type of motor. These have the bogies held on by tension springs which pull them towards the chassis. The original chassis had compression springs to transmit the electricity from the bogies to the chassis. The problem was that the compression springs also pushed the gears on the driven axles away from the main drive gear on the chassis and out of mesh thus loosing drive! So even with the same motor, the second generation design in the KiHa 40 is much better and should be capable of running well. I don’t think any of the later designs are any better at running if the track is too dirty, people probably just don't show track cleaning because it's dull.

There can also be issues with the magnets on the wheels coming loose, in effect the tyre, so the axle might be spinning but not moving the wheel/tyre. Or a split gear muff on a driven axle. Or fluff in the mechanism. Or a spring come loose etc. Or just dirt on the wheels. Or a split pinion on the motor. It is possible to get it running again. Have you managed it yet? If not, let me know.

Really? Are you sure? I do hope so as the Matheson wagon is still miles better than any other similar open wagon from any of the other manufacturers. It may even be the best outright but I haven't compared it to some of the latest offerings. I hope they offer their 3 link couplings too as they are a great fit in BachFar wagons.

Please could you share details of the prototypes Julia? Also how did you make the axles and what dimensions are they please? Sam

Interesting Klaus. Any photos or drawings of the prototype of that loco please? Are those the right wheels? You seem to have an outside cylinder to attach but no crank pins!? Sam

Valentin, I see that Mike beat me to it, but if he doesn't end up taking the loco or ends up deciding it doesn't suit him, then I think I can make something of it. Sam.

It's in the wrong forum then! I can still use them then, on the garden railway!

Educated guess on the gauge (and the rest). I'm fairly sure they'll be useful.

'Want one!' Well, I don’t want just ONE, I want several please! What wheelbase are they and what gauge? What wheels are you going to use with them? Sam

Hi Hendreladis, Are these items still available please? I'm afraid that I don't have any of the items you list and doubt that I have anything sufficiently esoteric to swap but maybe we can come to a suitable arrangement. Cheers, Sam

You might want to also get a small number of axles/wheelsets that are the next length up from what you have measured (or even both the next two sizes). RTR axles are often quite a sloppy fit and you may well find that longer finescale axles actually run better than the same length you took out.

Three photos of Holywell Town. The headshunt looks challengingley short, though it is improved a bit if you go through the 'middle' road (left hand track as you approach from the 'main' line).

Any further news? Any pictures of the stock? This was also mentioned in one of the modelling mags but they didn't mention that the stock is all 2FS. Sam.

The link to the RAF web site doesn't always seem to work but I managed to find it from searching for the main site then going to the main menu and scrolling down the site map to Personnel and officer biographies beginning with f. Hopefully this link might work better: <http://www.rafweb.org/Biographies/Fellowes.htm> Sam

Hi Moschops, Is there any possibility of the drawings you did being made available please. They would be interesting and might be of use to those of us working in scales other than 4mm who are unable to benefit from Rapido's good works. Best regards, Sam K.

9mm plus paint will get you very close to 9.15mm. Sam.

[coughs] Is that a management imposed arbitrary deadline or do the workers (you) feel they can achieve it? :-) We look forward to seeing it progress. Sam.

It's no good having a timetable if you don't stick to it! ;-)

Chris Higgs, on 18 Oct 2016 - 17:48, said: Excellent news Chris. Many thanks. Any chance of a preview photo so we know what we're getting etc? Ok if we put a note about these in the LYRS magazine? Sam.

Hi Pix, Is the Class 14 chassis available please? And did you or someone do a detailing etch for the body, particularly the bufferbeams? Regards, Sam.

umm, 121 or 121?

There is/was this thread: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/64660-Dapol-pannier-a-haynes-manual/ and apparently "the February/March (2016) magazine will include an article by Pete King on converting the Dapol pannier".