RSH 14" 0-4-0ST - wheelbase?

[essdee]

Having already progressed a High Level Kits 'Black Hawthorn' chassis, with modified detail overlays, for an otherwise scratchbuilt "Radstock Dazzler" 0-4-0ST, I am wondering if I can similarly use another Chris Gibbon chassis for a similar 0-4-2ST...

Please can somebody confirm the wheelbase of the RSH 14" 0-4-0ST which is in Chris's range - it looks suitably short? I actually need a wb of 5ft 1in (yes, why the 1 inch...?), but 5ft would suit me OK, in the interests of a short cut, at this stage in life!

Only last year I had a cull of much accumulated ephemera - including a series of magazine drawings of industrials, including the RSH I suspect, which I reckoned I would now never need. ........ "Stupid Boy!".

Many thanks,

Steve

[David Knight]

Hi Steve,

My RSH measures 22mm WB or 5’6” .

HTH

David

[essdee]

Thanks David, much appreciated.

Hmm, five inches over-length for my needs - but easier to shorten than to lengthen! Will have to think it over, but very useful to have the dimension now.
Cheers,

Steve

[nberrington]

RT models has some 20mm wheelbase chassis designed for his sentinel kits and one for the Ruston 48.

Robert does sell them separately - the ones for the Sentinels are designed to be compensated and use with the High Level Quadriver 20 gearbox. (They are not listed on the website, but if e-mail Robert directly he is very helpful.)

[essdee]

Thanks Neil - that's an interesting one! I have chatted to Robert at his show stand, but had not fully registered his range of goodies.
I will certainly follow that up as well,
Cheers,
Steve

[steamraiser]

GA chassis for the Hornby Peckett.
My chassis kit has a 22mm wheel base.

Gordon A

[essdee]

Ah, thanks Gordon - looks like 5ft 6ins was something of a 'standard' in the Industrials industry for smaller engines.
25A was essentially an 1890s 'new body' on an earlier chassis. I think even Chris's Neilson tanks were 5ft 6ins or more...

CHeers,

Steve