Scalefour Forum

Noel wrote:....I presume that P109 is intended for a 64ft underframe? ....

It is.

The detail fret is P108 in the Southern Pride list. I'm not sure they were supplied with any instructions, but the fret contains, amongst other things: Door "T" handles Grab handles V-hangers for the underframe Makers' plates Pipework Rainstrips for the roof Those are the bits I can identi...

Just ring Chris at High Level and he will be able to sort you out, without the faff of going into a bidding war. No connection other than a perfectly happy customer. 0191 388 2112 (09.00 - 17.00 GMT if possible)... ...or see price list for his current range of motors . Mashima motors are no longer ...

It was a very complicated box with spring strips - I used to have the instruction booklet, but looks like that's gone. The castings weren't bad, but the valve gear was very good. Ah, not the version I had. Mine definitely had the twin-beam/cradle arrangement, as also used on Kemilway's chassis for ...

Lima chassis might have been a mechanical abomination but my memory of them from a very long time ago was that they would pick-up power and start more reliably than anything else available at the time. There was method in their madness somewhere.... They did seem to have a fair few cable runs insid...

I built a class 3 tank from the Kemilway kit long before the Bachman one came out. The Kemilway sprung system was basically unusable, so I took the frames and made cut-outs and put standard guides and blocks in. New spacers. The Comet trucks can be used. I thought the Kemilway system was based on t...

Philip Hall wrote:.... if the flange thickness was to come down a bit more, as it would do for P4, the tyre would be about 2.2mm wide, which is not excessive...

As an aside, HO-finescalers sometimes use 2.2mm-wide wheels (available from Weinert, from example) under the label "RP25-fine"

247 Developments list the 'Romford P4 axle' I wonder if RP25 profile tyres would work in P4...... :o Or is that total heresy? You asked the question, I expect a full report back (and an article for the snooze). Maybe you could compare notes with Martin Goodall, he of the "EM/EMF" flange.....

As per the title

Correspondence with Tony Sheffield confirms that all NLG meetings are cancelled until further notice. There will be a round-robin e-mail to this effect.

mkfuzzhead wrote:I suppose many of us are thinking this..........

Is there any threat to the Skills day this Saturday given the current viral skirmishes? Cheers

This question could be applied to any of the forthcoming shows: ExpoEM, RailEx, etc

....Before everyone gets excited, they'd be expensive in 4mm scale. Example of a 4ft6 driver, 18mm diameter, so roughly 17mm diameter print. A 4mm wheel is, say, 2mm thick. Might get four, maybe five, to a print with a maximum print area of 43mm*43mm. Knowing the price of the 2mm prints (1.3mm thic...

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That'll be one of the few Mitchell Manor kits that actually got sold before the artwork "disappeared".

.....The original smokebox door was too small .... The replacement door, although noticeably larger, is a little cautious and flat; you could have got away with going a bit larger still. The old Airfix body is quite tough to carve away in places, so well done on making something of the smokebox sad...

Proto87Stores wrote:...I assume a similar situation will arise for Q1 wheels, If it has not already done so. ...

It hasn't

proto87stores wrote:BFB wheels area distinct possibility. How many people would be interested in those for the various SR prototypes, pacifics, Q's etc?

Correct Q1 domed face wheel centre would help.

DougN wrote:....I keep struggling with brake gear that works, (when I don't want it too!)

A slight irony in that the system described here actually makes the brakes look as though they could be made to operate....

Highly interesting.

Now that those Ultrascale tyres are available separately, it may be that your method also lends itself to converting HO RTR profiles to P87.

...As with the Jubilee, the running is excellent.To me, it looks like the eccentric rod travel is a bit too much. Can you reduce the throw of the return crank or is it fixed now?..... Hope not; both the Jubilee and the Patriot's offside return cranks are pointing in the wrong direction - makes the ...

Julian Roberts wrote:.... my progress may bring shudders to those of equine saddlery sensibilities.....

Not as much shuddering compared to today's bill for updated safety kit.

Thanks goes to Dave B. for the recommendation to take the bosses off the wheels. Now I have measured them and the wheels over all are now 2mm. I was amazed that I needed to take off 0.75mm off the axle lengths. So the wheels started looking like wheel on the right... to look like the wheel on the l...

....Which one did you build? None of those are mine. I was supposedly working on a Coopercraft Mk.1 underframe. The "King" looked a bit tasty, though. It was built by a fella in the United States, and has Beeson driving wheels. I noticed the leading and driving axles were not parallel to ...

The stars of tonight's show....

Yes, you'll need to file faces of wheels flush with tyres. They'll still be wider than scale but should fit. You can skim wheels down to the scale 1.85 thickness too if you have the facilities (front flange on tyre should be thick enough - it's usually 0.3) .... Or possibly have bespoke tyres made ...

...I have lost any clearance to the front crank pin/ cross head/ slid bar area. The instructions recommend removing one lamination of the slid bars, yeap done that, use a recessed crank pin/nut, yeap working on that using Ultra scale recessed nut on Gibson screw, remove any side ways movement of th...