Scalefour Forum

Lovely stuff Mike. I've been following your thread for a while now and admiring your approach and the end results. These simple but rugged engines have great appeal, even though the North Eastern isn't my favoured prototype. I particularly like the 4-8-0T you featured earlier. Keep 'em coming! Richard

This is straying off the original thread a bit but a method of building "floating" track for quiet running is described in Ray Hammond's article on his layout "Buntingham" in MRJ 49 and also in Iain Rice's book on Finescale Track, published by Wild Swan. It uses an inverted chann...

Roxey Mouldings coach kits come with vac-formed roofs although their website doesn't list them as available separately. It might be worth contacting Dave Hammersley to ask if he could supply you, if you haven't already tried them.

Richard

I also queried the lack of a brake van with one of the operators who explained that the train in question had been borrowed from a layout set in time after the requirement for brake vans on fitted freights had been dispensed with. I accepted this as a valid reason in view of the "work in progre...

Hi Dave, It's a cracking looking model and I'm glad to hear you've got it running again. I can confirm that the method described by Dave of fixing return cranks to crankpins works just fine. I've used it on my current project, also a 9F as it happens, but using Dave Bradwell's chassis kit and Sharma...

In MRJ 21 page 55 Allan Sibley described how he arranged the drive for a GWR Dean single. The drive was on the trailing wheel via an intermediate shaft geared to the motor and the "driving" wheel was weighted and allowed to go along for the ride. This arrangement had the advantages of 1) a...

I don't know what is behind Bill's query but if I may add a word of caution - I recently tried to use Dullcoat to seal some Fox waterslide transfers (which had been allowed 24 hours to dry as recommended btw). Unfortunately a second or two after spraying them the lovingly applied bespoke transfers p...

Chris,

I realise this is now quite an old thread but whilst searching for a different SR chimney for a friend I noticed that PDK list a Lemaitre chimney for the Q class, reference SC8, if you haven't found one yet.

Regards,

Richard

Hi Jeremy,

I realise this is months after your original post which I came across yesterday whilst idly browsing the forum but I have a dozen of the attached items.

They're labelled as LMS but if they're suitable for BR CCT's they're yours for free.



Regards,

Richard

I should really shouldn't I? Otherwise I'll never know if I've actually fixed the original problem...

Just for the record the cause of the 4MT failing was a front crankpin unscrewing itself and fouling the connecting rod. It's the recessed type to provide adequate clearance in this situation. Thinning down the front boss on the coupling rod seems to have cured the problem. Thankfully no damage was s...

Thanks for featuring my efforts yet again Mike. It is good to have the opportunity to see if one's "shunting plank" locos can actually pull a proper train! If any readers are interested in servo operation of signals, the name of the supplier of control units etc is not "DG Controls&qu...

Over the summer during a break in official area group activities Martin Wilkinson has kindly painted for me the upperworks of my two S&D 7F 2-8-0's (in black cellulose as discussed at last Thursday night's area group meeting). 53805, the small-boilered version, was painted in its entirety by Mar...

DT, For my money the best configuration for 4-4-0's is the one described in Roger Lycett-Smith's article "An EM Earl" in MRJ 126 of 2001. This is compensated, fixed rear axle, beam between front driver axle and centre of bogie. The beam is pivoted as near as practicable to the front axle s...

Rob, To answer your original question, I built one of these a few years ago now and used a Faulhaber coreless motor (as used in the Portescap 1624 set up) in the tender driving the centre driving wheels via a cardan shaft and Sharman 40:1 gearbox. There's plenty of room for the drive shaft under the...

As indicated I got in touch with Terry and he very kindly sent me some new disc wheels (OO wagon, solid metal with the flanges turned off.) They have solved the problem and I attach a link to Youtube for a short clip of the turntable starting its revolution if anyone is interested in viewing the res...

Gents, Thanks very much for your swift replies. By way of explanation for the original post, I do already have wheels on my turntable, which work adequately in terms of current collection via the ring rail in the well, being all-metal 00 gauge spoked bogie wheels from some long-forgotten DJH kit. I ...

I'm looking for a source of supporting wheels for a turntable deck. Spec is a plain brass disc 12mm o/d, thickness 1.5-2mm, centre drilled 2mm. Looks like a simple job for turning on a lathe but unfortunately I don't own one. I've trawled the web for commercial sources but without success, hence thi...

I've had one in use on my layout for a couple of years now and find it to be very robust and completely reliable. I would like to fit them to all turnouts on the layout but they are pretty difficult to retro-fit once track is laid in my experience. For new construction though if fitted before the tu...