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Looks really good. What scribing tool do you use?

Hi Hayfield. I am a member of the EM gauge society. Thats a nice bit of kit, really solid for a newbie like me. Track building really appeals to me, would love to build a curved station throat at some point. i have a unbuilt CL crossing that i fancy building with a slight curve in it, maybe something you have done on your thread? Thanks.

Started building the station, really like the look of the Peco EM track.

I managed to get 2 off a well known auction site. They look so old and nice im not sure i want to open them. I saw Mike Sharman passed away last year, so sad.

Just spent this evening reading this thread, all the ups and downs. Really interesting, looking forward to seeing more.

The wheels have been reset and fitted. I am not sure it would pull a 10 coach passenger but it wouldnt before anyway. It does work though, needs a bit of fine tuning. I am waiting for a Peco Smart switch point control to arrive so have not tested anything across points yet. That was fun and free.. Thank you.

Hi Izzy, Thanks for that, it does seem to work. Splined axles, pulled them off and re set with a BTB gauge. Will try a reasemble tomorrow and see how it goes,

Thank you for the replies, very kind to share your knowledge. I have taken the chassis out. Being new to this i am not sure what type it is but does not look to different from the Bachmann one i did before. Thinking i may be able to get some wheels and axles that i could fettle in to the chassis. The driving axle has a locating bush on one side of the gear and the other wheels just have spacers. I do have some EM axles maybe i should remove the wheels and have a look. Any advice would be welcome. Paul.

Hi all, I have a new found interest in RTR EM conversion and i have a pretty large collection of RTR locos, 1F, 3F, 4F, 2P etc. Lying in a siding hardly ever used is a loco drive Hornby Midland 2P, has anyone done this loco drive to EM? Cant find it on the usual how to guides so im guessing not an easy one. I see Alan Gibson sell all the wheels. I can see it has a lot of pick ups on the wheels that may cause a problem. Is it a easier to make a new chassis? Thanks in advance, Paul.

I have been removing plastic and changing axles to get the wheels from binding on my wagons, squared up the driving wheels and i am pleased to say the Jinty pulls the goods train around my curves nice and slow. Really happy. I am now going to finish fiing the crank pins down and weather the chassis.

There is a film on youtube called The s&d and how we filmed it that has a small section on Wincanton. Not much though.

I was thinking about this today. I thought i would try to make a tie bar out of some left over nickel silver and epoxy it to the rails with a hole drilled in the centre for a pin from a servo motor. Thanks again for another informative post. Paul.

Thank you Fen End Pit, that would explain why i have removed so much plastic from the chassis of wagons and the wheels are still binding. I was starting to think they were binding in the cups.

Hi #hayfield Thank you for that very informative post. I have already started looking for damaged locos etc. I had to buy a lot of tools to do this (you need the right tool to do the right job etc) and have decided to stick to internal pistons for now, 3f 0-6-0 , 4f etc. As you can probably guess i messed up an expensive Bachmann 3MT during the learning curve but, i hope i can rescue it later on. PS, i still have not soldered that C&L tie bar to the point yet.....

It was the realistic track gauge in 0 that led me to EM, i thought about a piano plan track in 0 but the space available is only 10 x 1ish feet and with B6 points its still a tight fit including the curves at each end. Edit to add clarity, the curves will run from a fiddle yard to reverse loop in a U shape but the visible part is 10 x 1.

I have spent quite a long while looking at pictures of EM gauge track and thinking how good it looks, so i decided to have a dabble. Bought some GW models tools, some wheel sets from Colin at Alan Gibson, some C&L finescale track and some Peco track from the EMGS. I attempted a BR 3MT first, that was a mistake, talk about running before you can walk, so i had a go at a jinty. Well? it works, im quite excited with that, I have no idea how you guys do big locos with all the valve gear in EM let alone P4. I think i may be going down a rabbit hole.

Hi Simon, Hope you dont mind me asking, how do you make the return cranks on the valve gear? This is something i have really been struggling to do. Great looking conversions. Paul.

That is quite amazing. I grew up in Blandford but moved to London in my 20s. I lived in Dalston on the old (now re opened) NLR line. To think i was modeling the old S&D in a location the old Jintys had run is news to me. Thank you so much Nearholmer.

My knowledge of jintys is not that good, but i always thought the prussian blue ones must have been used into BR days. I had presumed 47314 was old number 23. Did it get moved to another shed somewhere else in the country?

This is quite a good source. http://brdatabase.info/sites.php?page=depots&subpage=locos&id=543

Spent the last week trying my first EM gauge conversion, it went ok, steep learning curve.I went 90% finished then realised i needed to go back 6 steps to get clearance correct. It has been enjoyable and lessons learnt, not finished yet.

The curved road really draws the eye into the backscene, very nice. Do you plan on having a lorry or such waiting at the road?

I thought they might have used them for prize Bulls to keep them separated, huge cattle market at Sturminster Newton in those days.

Wonderful layout. I like the Persian rug, might get one of those for me loft.

If you want proper cuts on ply buy a Festool ts55. (only joking really unless you are a chippy by trade).