NuCast Armstrong Standard Goods conversion?

[jon price]

Has anyone ever converted the NuCast Armstrong Standard Goods (388 Class) to P4? Anything to report?

[petermeyer]

I have a Jidenco 388 in the works at the mo. Stalled whilst I build the upper springs. I don’t recall anything out of the ordinary when building in P4 an old kit designed to be compatible with OO.

I would presume you will have to move the splashers out.

[jon price]

Yes.Moving the splashers might be easy (if they are seperate items) or impossible (if they are cast on the footplate) as this is a whitemetal kit. Anyone know?

[petermeyer]

Yes.Moving the splashers might be easy (if they are seperate items) or impossible (if they are cast on the footplate) as this is a whitemetal kit. Anyone know?

Is this an old kit or a re-release? For old whitemetal kits with a flat footplate I have replaced this with brass. I’ve cut the whitemetal splashers out and fettled these to fit and soldered on. The same concept applies to the outside frames. This way you can check for clearance as you go as long as you’ve made the chassis first.

If it is the newly released kit one would assume the chassis is P4 friendly. Crucial clearances are between the outside cranks and frames as well as the usual culprits; splashers etc.

[steve howe]

I had one of these kits when they were sold by K's with the blister packing on a cardboard sheet which did the flat castings no good at all! Sold it on Ebay when I was having a clear-out where it went for silly money. Always regretted it as the Armstrong Goods is one of my favourite engines. I think the splashers were cast on the footplate, tricky, but not impossible to resolve, I did it with the K's 57xx years ago and made new splashers from brass. If Nu-Cast have re-released the Armstrong I might be tempted again... I'd be interested to know how you get on Jon.

Steve

[steve howe]

Just found this on the RM Web:

https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/105342-nucast-partners/page/10/#comment-4667923


Steve

[jon price]

Steve I haven't got one of these, but I'm quite tempted by the nu-cast re-issue.Wanted to see if anyone had experience of them before taking on a project and finding too many issues.

Jon