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I'm not quite sure whether this is the most appropriate place for this topic - bits may be better in "Railmotors, Railcars and Multiple Units" and others in "Tools and Techniques", but as Jeremy Suter has put his fascinating thread https://www.scalefour.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=...

I'm really looking forward to following this thread as I'm about to start on a similar project and avoiding reinventing the wheel is going to be really important if I am to achieve my target. In particular, the bogie suspension and the valve gear are going to be interesting. I can't check at the mom...

a quick video of the inside motion JFz3N2BgLeI Sickening..... makes me think I'd be better switching to gardening! I've had a go a two outside framed locos and made a mess of both chassis, the third one planned was also intended to have inside motion - now I know what I have to aim for! I'm curious...

The Amateur's Lathe is widely available on a well-known on-line auction site - I've been meaning to pick up a copy for some time, and since it has once again failed to surface as a Christmas or Birthday present maybe I'd better start bidding now, before they all get snapped up by Terry's recommenda...

My wife spotted this and wondered if I would be interested.
https://gemmojo.com/products/wow-instant-fix?variant=26479143169

Has anyone experience with this product?

Don't do what I did! Do plan extra carefully, if possible do a 3D drawing and include all the under baseboard bits including your hand. To make a simple layout more interesting I thought that the jigsaw concept would allow the easy replacement of a bit to show different periods - in my case the addi...

... My theory is that a 3-point suspension will be far more satisfactory if both wheels on one side of a 4-wheeled vehicle are compensated instead. I am sure someone must have thought of it long before me. This brings back happy memories from more decades ago than I care to count - when still in sc...

If you fancy a leaf sprung bogie without side frames you need to go about 20 minutes into the programme that will only be available on line for about 2 weeks. I stumbled across this by chance and, although mainly off-topic, I thought some of you might be interested anyway. Regard it, if you like, as...

Following on from the tidy-up (see "Relics") I thought I ought to do something about some old models - these were all very nearly completed before a change of country and it has taken until now to get round to finishing them off! DSC03707.JPG The 4 in the front row are scratch built and th...

Prompted in part by the anniversary appeal about old models, and partly by a tidy up of my storage during a forced break in painting a new model (perished airbrush hose), I thought I'd assemble a group of my early items. In the front row is what is left of my initial trials in P4 and in the back row...

Another excellent thread - I'm always finding something to learn and targets to aim at. In the spirit of getting things all right, I wonder if you have made a common mistake with the brake gear. I believe most wagons had the brake push rods perpendicular to the wheel treads, so not parallel to the s...

Indeed 3 attractive little engines - pity you've only got 2 kits as there were also three clearly different stages, single bent sheet "cab", box like cab with new safety valves and the Westernised version. Wheels were 9 spoke (3' on GW rebuild) with 14 spoke drivers with the crankpin betwe...

Using things you probably have: http://makezine.com/projects/skill-builder-finding-the-center/ Using a special tool: http://www.robotroom.com/CircleCenter.html Easier with something that is flat than dished. Perhaps make a flat circle to fit inside the tube and use this as a drilling jig.

I've just downloaded you STL file and found that the spring hangers were not attached to the central sprue. If you are going to have these cast in brass, you are going to have to think about the spurs. For casting short stubby sprue are better than long thin ones. Which means that the boiler fittin...

Mark & Rod,

Thanks for the suggestion on casting - I'll certainly look into this for future projects.

grovenor-2685 wrote:

This forum will not allow the uploading of STL files so I can't include it here:

Just zip up the file and attach the .zip
Regards

I fogot! Must upgrade my memory.....

File attached.

Armchair Modeller wrote:I do like the boiler fittings - is there any chance some might be available, please?

I've posted a bit about them at http://www.scalefour.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=4936#p46444 - let me know if you want any more information.

I have been posting on my workbench forum a bit about a loco I am trying to build ( http://www.scalefour.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=100&t=4826#p46375 ) and a question was asked about the fluted boiler fittings so I thought it possibly better to post a little bit here. I attended a modellers' week...

This is the example of my poor modelling - I really must stop rushing to meet self imposed deadlines by not leaving everything till the last minute: New-Out99997-Pyramid Do Stack[1,0,1].jpg According to the RCTS this loco started as a banker from LLanhilleth to Crumlin on the Taff Vale extension of ...

The paint is drying and the glue setting ...... so I should be able to box it up in the morning and take it to the AGM where I hope I will learn what I should have done differently! This project was a bit of an experiment - firstly putting to use some of what I learned at Great Missenden in March ha...

.... This gives an overall width of 36.57mm which is probably out of gauge! (Prototype dimensions I have come across vary from 33.58 to 35.67 ). .... I'll report in my workbench page whether I not I succeed. I failed, thinning the Gibson cranks wasn't really an option. http://www.scalefour.org/foru...

Work has been going on with the chassis and bodywork - more on that later. Further checking of clearances revealed that I had built the inside frames too close together which in turn caused the outside frames and bearings to be too close to the wheels.... so dismantle the chassis and rebuild with th...

...thickness of the laminated rods are deeper than the depth of the AG bush... Tim Until you get the longer bushes, and shorten as needed, you could invert the nut as the thin section is the same diameter as the bush following AG's advice on working where clearances are limited like behind cross he...

I've seen on Shapeways web site that someone has produced a driving wheel in "steel" http://www.shapeways.com/product/GRVUZLGTX/57-inch-13-spoke-wheel-ho-thin-spoke?optionId=42096482 and I believe similar has been done in brass. Has anyone any information on: - can one achieve a ready to r...

I've had the same problem and after a couple of attempts I ditched it. I can't remember where I saw the suggestion to use it, so can't go back to see if there were any advice on suitable adhesives.
I removed what I could and filled the remaining cracks with sand and PVA.