Flymo748 wrote:...then it wouldn't be the case that when I picked the first one up and turned it the right way up, the coupling fell off in a sticky mess!
Fortunately unset araldite washes off in detergent and water.
Flymo748 wrote:...then it wouldn't be the case that when I picked the first one up and turned it the right way up, the coupling fell off in a sticky mess!
Will L wrote:Flymo748 wrote:...then it wouldn't be the case that when I picked the first one up and turned it the right way up, the coupling fell off in a sticky mess!
Fortunately unset araldite washes off in detergent and water.
Flymo748 wrote:I can be so stupid at times.
Flymo
Mark Tatlow wrote:Flymo748 wrote:I can be so stupid at times.
Flymo
I beleive this has been mentioned; most Missendens for example!
Just booked by the way; but will be staying up the road as I failed ot heed David's warning that the last few places in the Abbey were about to go! So perhaps this makes me a tad stupid too!
Mark Tatlow wrote:Flymo748 wrote:I can be so stupid at times.
Flymo
I beleive this has been mentioned; most Missendens for example!
Mark Tatlow wrote:Just booked by the way; but will be staying up the road as I failed ot heed David's warning that the last few places in the Abbey were about to go! So perhaps this makes me a tad stupid too!
Flymo748 wrote:Oh I don't know - you can be quite inventive too. I still recall how you innovatively tried sniffing that Branchlines wheelset to see how hot it was
jon price wrote:I'll be at my first Missenden in Spring.
jon price wrote:I'll be at my first Missenden in Spring. Signed up for loco building, I already know about simple workshop accidents so I will arrive with some basic knowledge. Its the actual construction work I'll need advice on. I get the impression there might be a fair few Scalefour people. I'm looking forward to it.
jon price wrote:I'll be at my first Missenden in Spring. Signed up for loco building, I already know about simple workshop accidents so I will arrive with some basic knowledge. Its the actual construction work I'll need advice on. I get the impression there might be a fair few Scalefour people. I'm looking forward to it.
Flymo748 wrote:...is opening an old locomotive kit box to see whether you fancy taking it to Missenden for the weekend, and finding an unused Portescap in there.
That's going to be going on Ebay after I've checked that it runs properly, so mentally is offset against the course cost
Cheers
Flymo
jon price wrote:I'll be at my first Missenden in Spring. Signed up for loco building, I already know about simple workshop accidents so I will arrive with some basic knowledge.
martin goodall wrote: Then what grease to use? LaBelle seems to be virtually unobtainable, so it may have to be something less sophisticated - clock grease, for example?
martin goodall wrote:Flymo748 wrote:...is opening an old locomotive kit box to see whether you fancy taking it to Missenden for the weekend, and finding an unused Portescap in there.
That's going to be going on Ebay after I've checked that it runs properly, so mentally is offset against the course cost
Cheers
Flymo
Don't apply power to it until you are sure it has not seized up.
It will probably need re-lubricating.
I haven't done mine yet, but I assume a spray with IPA would be the first step, so as to get any remaining solidified grease out of the gear box. Then what grease to use? LaBelle seems to be virtually unobtainable, so it may have to be something less sophisticated - clock grease, for example?
dal-t wrote:martin goodall wrote: Then what grease to use? LaBelle seems to be virtually unobtainable, so it may have to be something less sophisticated - clock grease, for example?
P&H Models are still quoting LaBelle 106 (and 107 and 108 oil) ...
martin goodall wrote:I have some unused grease which was supplied either by Trans-Europ Models as successors to Studiolith, or possibly by Exactoscale in their early days. I beleve it was intended for use with the precision gearboxes that they supplied at the time, rather than for Portescaps, but I and wonder whether this might possibly be suitable?
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