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I had intended to use a Chime whistle for Papyrus and found , at least a similar whistle as the one I had seen in a video about the whistles of Flying Scotsman, on Ebay. It was a 6 tone Chime whistle and so I changed it to a 3 tone one. But it was in vain, because meanwhile I had found out that no Chime whistles at all were fitted to A1s/A3s, except to 4472 when it visited the US in 1969. Rgds Bernd
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Only just an image , after having fitted 2 different LED`s. Rgds Bernd
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I corrected my bad mistake and fitted lamps to the A3 after not only having changed the colour, but also the rather thick lamp handles by replacing the printed ones against thinner wires. Some time ago I had already replaced the original quite thin plastic steam brake pipe by a brass one from "62CModels" I changed a little. Rgds Bernd
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As Brian (Bribri) had shown I `ve tried to have a little firebox flickering flame , but without doing the wiring job. So I ordered a Firebox Lighting kit from Train-Tech . Though it`s not perfect or perhaps as good as a wired firebox flicker I´m quite happy with it. "A low power microprocessor constantly monitors a tiny sensor which can detect small amounts of motion. When motion is detectedit flashes LEDuntilno motion is sensedfor 4minutes, then turns off the LED to save power and back to mnitoring." Rgds Bernd
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I filed down the original moulded works plates and replaced them by brass ones from Narrow Planet. Rgds Bernd
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Meanwhile I had asked the chairmann of LNER Society about lamp colour and must say sorry for having relied on only one wrong source before ! As I didn`t like Heljan`s bogie wheels ( too coarse and not really prototypical) I replaced them by Slater`s 10 spoke A3 wheels , but was more difficult as I had thought, because of different axle diameters : 3mm to 4,76 mm. I made a "control gauge " from brass and filed the holes out. Drilling wasn`t possible as the axle holes were open downside. Rgds
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http://tottenham-summerhillroad.com/early_railways_of_tottenham.htm (scroll down to B17 Tottenham Hotspur) Found this image, but because of black/white photo difficult to say what colour the lamps are. They look like the colour of the buffer beam. But eventually I`m open to conviction and can change the colour. Rgds Bernd
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http://www.igg.org.uk/rail/6-livy/lner/9-lner.htm Rgds Bernd
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Hi Bob, it`s from Laurie Griffin and a bit worked at by me. Bernd Hi David, that`s what I did. Different from Heljan.
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Some more detailing. New correct smokedoor handles and LNER lamps. ( Colour red on locos aand brake vans until early thirties) Rgds Bernd
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Hi,
have got a question concerning your A3 , unsrewing the cab. Does the backhead come off with the cab? Thanks in advance!
Bernd
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Another attempt of a short video after deleting my post by silly mistake. Rgds Bernd Second take with this time correct whistles, I hope.
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Short video filmed by mobile (QP) B
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Sorry, maybe I am mistaken, but shouldn`t it be 6 chuffs per rev ? Rgds bernd
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See link: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/union-of-south-africa-damages-carriage-gangway-on-the-elr.197172/ B
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Don`t know how people couple a coach to the tender as the corridor connection is in the way. So I detached the rubber bulge (hardly glued) from the tender back , drilled two 8mm holes into the outer edges, fitted brass pins and as there are 3 more plastic pins at the top, it can be removed and refitted now. Rgds Bernd
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Shortly before Christmas 3 further photos of Papyrus. Real coal for the tender (on plasticard) and mudguards prototypically broadened a little bit with plasticard. Rgds and blessed Christmas Bernd
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Did a little detailing , as fitting the fall plate seemed a bit difficult, I drilled 0,5mm holes in bottom sides of cab and soldered 0,5mm wire to both plate sides. Then I made new small dust guards from brass and long guard irons in front of them. Rgds Bernd
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Thank you very much Brian!!! I´ll try your chosen values and see what happens. My decoder is MX 696KS and I set the values : 2 =5 ,3=40 ,9=98 ,56=77 . Works quite well, too . Only running backwards at speed step 40 (128) is a bit jerky. Rgds Bernd PS Is your programmer MXULFA ?
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Hi Brian , I`d like to know, as I use a Zimo decoder too, concerning "running and setting up DCC", which values you chose for CVs 2, 3, 9 , and 56 ! Rgds Bernd
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I`ve tried to model the draincocks of early A3 versions and as I really don`t know why Heljan didn`t construct a simpler solution to connect loco with tender but to use srews , I soldered a pin to a small brass plate and srewed it on the loco and so , though it`s a bit fiddly, I needn`t use the srews anymore. Rgds Bernd
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If you`d like to have e.g. Zimo decoder instead (what is a bit more complicated in fact), I can recommend YouChoos! John is very helpful and nice and their sounds are really good!
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One question: did you exchange/customize the loco/tender connector bar, as it looks more plastic than metal? Rgds Bernd
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As I`ve already written mine (Papyrus) will be with me next week as it`s now with YouChoos for having fit Zimo sound decoder etc. I prefer Zimo to ESU as I experienced, comparing each other, motor control seems to be a lot better. Rgds Bernd https://youchoos.co.uk/Index-Resource.php?L1=Guides&Item=OHattonsA3
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Concerning missing lining on front bogie wheels, I asked Fox Transfers if it could be possible to get an extra sheet for that , as they had only sheets with all the wheels. And they did it: https://fox-transfers.co.uk/a3-class-loco-wheels-lining-only-79969 Rgds Bernd
