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Just caught up, yes rh rods from cab view are at the furthest forward point whilst the left hand should be at the highest point. That gives you 90 deg lead. I suspect you may have assembled it originally with the rods at 180 deg hence your wonky rod assuming the wheels are correctly mounted on the axle.

Scary aren’t they , oh and they break easily. How do I know this, I see my kit has Scale link wheels and de luxe crank pins, maybe I should try and use then to see how I get on.

Neal your ancient Romfords should be tapped 10ba if theyve been tapped at all. the Scalelinks should interchange to test the chassis and rods which would confirm if its the wheels.

what crankpins are you using?

Did you sort your quartering issue out? Ive stopped using the abs centred wheels as ive yet to get a set to work and stay quartered on the axle correctly. All my abs centred wheels have ended up on outside framed engines as i couldnt get consistent results and outside framed engines you use the extended axle cranks to quarter the rods. Have you assembled the chassis with the right hand rods leading by 90 degrees? Just a few things to consider, my choice is genuine markits wheels or even those original Romfords with old school crankpins rather than the de luxe type as i find there isnt any room for error/ easing out as the boss in the rod is weakened too much.

1401 and 1405 were both shortlisted but were rebuilt as large Metros so back to the drawing board

Thank you Neal I shall get a copy and see what i can come up with

A modern Markits 38 :1 reduction box with a Hornby skew wound 5 pole Chinese made motor from the spares box. I guess it will be ideal in the metro as it won’t be too heavily worked! Still trying to tie down an actual loco to model, ideally something Shrewsbury or Oswestry allocated. Craven Arms certainly had some but don’t know how to find specific locos. A Craven Arms loco would be the best really.

Mine is still a box of bits, although I’ve opened the box!!! Basic footplate and sides soldered together, need to assemble the chassis next. Will find the bits about the reverser useful as like others I’ve found the instructions very confusing.

Got to have cider in Herefordshire. Maybe a harvest scene is too narrow a timescale to have .

How about a harvest scene with a few stooks and a Fordson and trailer, I’d also say a Cider Orchard but the trees could be in the way!

You will have it built no problem, old Gem kits tended to go together rather well, Yours is a much later production but im sure it wont be a problem. I rather like your no 23!!

Rob I think looking at it that you have the Wizzard Chassis, previously Mainly Trains, as for gearbox it could be anything. I do have another untouched Rhos on Sea Kit to build at some point which again has a cast chassis. It is short of the front spectacle plate, however i had planned to build that kit in its Cambrian form with its second cab style.

wel you do know the Housman Poem !! Quietest places under the sun!!

Seeing NHY581s loco, im thinking mine should have an etched chassis now from Wizzard and work her up a bit if she is going to appear on my layout.

didnt 1192 end up in the west country? I have fitted DJH combos to an old Ks 1361 built on a Nu Cast etched chassis and a DJH 1366 pannier and both run smooth and powerful. The DJH combo isnt cheap but you just fit it to the chassis and wire it up!

I would personally use the Smallest DJH motor and gearbox with Markits wheels but there is plenty of choice out there. Markits wheels can be taken off and refitted easily . High level kits do motors and gearboxes and use Alan Gibson wheels. Mine was built in about 1979 and has the old cast chassis and generic Romford wheels.

Can someone identify this , both model and prototype. Again wooden construction throughout. Ratio, CCW or ??

More rolling stock to restore, what I believe to be an early 50s Ratio GW toad, it is a wooden model .

Track laid in the end loading dock and the sidings in between.

Wizzard sell the Chassis kit for 1196/7

Nearly had a go at this, but I already have this. mine is an old one with an XT60 motor but it runs lovely, especially with the Ratio 4 wheelers, not sure if this ever strayed down to Welshpool or not , however rule 1 will apply on the basis its been used by Oswestry shed to send on the morning school train and that they will get it back for its usual Tanat Duties.

looking good

No He didnt , however Rootes Group were certainly the Flavour in the Early days, Commer PA/PB s gave way to the Ford Transit in the early 70s. I hadnt realised that other than the Bedford SB everything is Rootes! Father ran about 2 dozen Commer Minibuses in total and a similar number of Transits.

just dug the photo album out, a couple of pics from when we had the garage at Montgomery, opposite where the BCR Station would have been, in the Bottom Left is the Verlon Farm,