Sweep
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Ouch, someone on here will no doubt be able to tell you if there's an alternative .
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I've had to replace the driving axle of a Hornby Britannia and whilst this seems to come with a brass bearing the Bachmann wheelsets seem much more robust.
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I've now attended to both the A1 and my other WD and they both run really well. These locos are about 2005 vintage and I wonder/hope that they were going throught a bad patch at that time resulting in these gear wheel failures as I've many more Bachmann locos and just hope I won't need to do this with them all.
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I've it a small plant spray bottle, if I screw the nozzle down tightly it produces a fine mist but it hardly dampens the ballast. Perhaps I just need to keep at it.
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I wondered if I'd be better moving up a grade of ballast from fine to medium, and can anyone recommend an alternative than woodland scenes?
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I've laid the track and I've started ballasting with woodland scenes fine ballast but although if wet it in the usual way with washing up liquid etc, it still floats away leaving a horrible mess. A Can anyone tell me what i'm doing wrong? Is it the wrong ballast, or wrong size? I'm laying it dry and then dropping glue on it, should I spread glue and then add the ballast on top? It's beginning to annoy me now.
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I just got a replacement driving axle for £4.71 plus postage, when you consider this includes vat, it's been shipped from China, stored on a shelf packaged and posted to me, I reckon that's pretty good value.
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Yep, agree totally - excellent service.
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Thanks everyone, the new axle arrived today and it was a fairly simple fit. I now find that I've another WD and an A1 similarly affected, but the service from Bachmann was excellent and at £7.00 inc p &up fairly reasonable.
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I've now heard back from Bachmann, they are sending me a driving wheel set which they say is a reasonably easy repair. I'm just wondering how easy it is to remove the pins which secure the connecting rods - is it just a matter of pliers and a gentle tug?
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Any news on the likely release of LMS type junction signals?
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Before I realised that 00 was easier to see I dabbled in N gauge for 20 odd years and had one or two locos affected, luckily though they were within the gear train and not on any axles so there replacement was a simple drop in- many thanks for your thoughts
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Thanks Tony, I contacted Bachmann this morning before I'd seen your post. I stripped in down and it is a hairline radius split in the cog on the driving axle. I've quite a number of Bachmann locos and hope this isn't going to be a common fault - is there a particular cause?
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Hi. I've a WD 2-8-0 which has developed a realistic clunk when running it's about every wheel revolution. I've had it apart and had a look but can't see anything. Without the motor you can push the chassis up and down and it's very smooth. The motor also runs well on it's own. The only thing I can think it might be is a split gear wheel somewhere. Can anyone suggest what else it might be, and how easy is it to fix with poor close up eyesight and five thumbs on each hand. Thanks.
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I remember the shop in the 1970s we used to call 'Mrs Alf's' in Blackburn opposite King George's Hall, can't remember it's proper name, then there was Mercers in Northgate and Harry Welch in Preston, plus Wolstenholme Handicrafts in Accrington which we used to call Wolstencrafts Handyholmes, for a short time we had a model shop in Stacksteads near Bacup which I think was part of a newsagents - all gone now.
