A catastrophy

Dr. Bond of the DVLR · Post by **Dr. Bond of the DVLR** » Fri Dec 25, 2009 10:45 pm

sorry about the cheesey title,
Just now I heared a huge crash from my room and on the flor was my AnDel guards van which i had modifed to hav eworking brakes and a new balcony. Smashed to bits by a cat knocking it off the higest most cat inacceccible shelf!
I am not a happy bunny, here is the damage

worce still I was writing an article for Garden Rail and had finished the writing and was going to take the pics tomorrow!
Bad way to end christmas day.

PCLR · Post by **PCLR** » Fri Dec 25, 2009 10:49 pm

i thinks it a good time to find the super glue!!!!

laalratty · Post by **laalratty** » Fri Dec 25, 2009 10:50 pm

ouch

I really don't know what to say, although the cat would probably be well advised to keep its distance from you at the moment

mhlr · Post by **mhlr** » Fri Dec 25, 2009 11:03 pm

I'd of shot it by now with my forum famous gun. (not the van, the cat!)

Dr. Bond of the DVLR · Post by **Dr. Bond of the DVLR** » Fri Dec 25, 2009 11:04 pm

Hmm, I tthink I shall have to buy anoth chassis from Andel, a repaint is needed now and I need to rebuild all my working brakes. They were bloody good and I recomend anyone who gets an Andel kit with brakes to make em work! Hmmm, lots of super glue is needed!

pauly · Post by **pauly** » Fri Dec 25, 2009 11:37 pm

looks like those brakes wherent good enough

how do you convert them to proper brakes? you should so an article for gardenrail!

Dr. Bond of the DVLR · Post by **Dr. Bond of the DVLR** » Fri Dec 25, 2009 11:50 pm

I HAVE ALLRWADY WRITEN THE ARTICLe
and was going to take pictures tomorrow!
That is why I am soooo angry!!!!

pauly · Post by **pauly** » Fri Dec 25, 2009 11:54 pm

maybe you could change it to an article against Cats as pets?

SillyBilly · Post by **SillyBilly** » Sat Dec 26, 2009 1:29 am

You might be albe to string out the article to another page including details of this catastrophy.

Totally 100% gutted for you Zach.

Dr. Bond of the DVLR · Post by **Dr. Bond of the DVLR** » Sat Dec 26, 2009 10:41 am

Thanks, I suppose I neglected to take pictures of the brake build so a new chassis rebuild may be a blessing in disguis. Well with no guards van my Guards/third carriage is having to be used on all goods trains meaning that I am down to an open penrhyn carriage and that bug box (review to follow shortly) as my passenger stock!

90733 · Post by **90733** » Sat Dec 26, 2009 10:51 am

unlucky

, cats can be right pains can't they.

Hancockshire · Post by **Hancockshire** » Sat Dec 26, 2009 2:55 pm

Bu99er me. The only problem with resin, shatters like glass.

Dr. Bond of the DVLR · Post by **Dr. Bond of the DVLR** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 10:25 pm

The brave little gurads van soldures on!
Having dropped a scale 100 feet and with plenty of super glue I have started to rebuild the guards van

I still have a repaint and the brakes to sort out.

LMS-Jools · Post by **LMS-Jools** » Wed Dec 30, 2009 11:07 am

Huwwah, Long Live the Guards Van

MDLR · Post by **MDLR** » Wed Dec 30, 2009 2:06 pm

For some things (and I KNOW you wouldn't have considered it at the time) having a repaired vehicle with signs of the repair would be quite nice - it'd certainly be authentic!

One of my sheep wagons got dropped about a month ago - it's going back together but it'll never look quite the same but i don't really mind.

Just don't mention the 3 coaches that lost their bogies coz they were stuck on with superglue...................

Dr. Bond of the DVLR · Post by **Dr. Bond of the DVLR** » Wed Dec 30, 2009 2:09 pm

eh, 3 coaches which lost their bogies because they were stuck on with super glue??
I plan to make the guards van look extremely tired and hard worked!

MDLR · Post by **MDLR** » Wed Dec 30, 2009 2:17 pm

Mr. Bond of the DVLR wrote:eh, 3 coaches which lost their bogies because they were stuck on with super glue??

OK - to be pedantic the bogie pivots were stuck to the floor of the coach with superglue and dropping the box they were in on the road broke the bond of the glue. One bogie got wrecked and one buffer beam was stoved in, and quite a number of footboard brackets got broken, but IP Engineering supplied replacements so all should be sorted by next Monday, when i go back to work!

Dr. Bond of the DVLR · Post by **Dr. Bond of the DVLR** » Wed Dec 30, 2009 2:21 pm

gosh!
When building bogies I use epoxy and they allways fall apart! I should probably try soldering them togthor but to be honest am a bit scared of soldering white metal!

Narrow Minded · Post by **Narrow Minded** » Sat Jan 02, 2010 9:21 pm

I can vouch for soldering, I'd never tried it before but assembled the control panel for my IP Jessie with soft solder.

I reckon the trick is to TAKE YOUR TIME, it's still quicker than waiting for glue to dry!

A bonus that I found was that I could bend the assembly to "tweak"it to fit the cab - I reckon glued joints would have let go if I'd tried that!

Nice work on the restoration. Have you made the roof removeable? (wish I had on mine.)

Dr. Bond of the DVLR · Post by **Dr. Bond of the DVLR** » Sat Jan 02, 2010 9:48 pm

Will do, All my rooves are removable, don't know why I just do not like the idea of not being able to fiddle around with the insides, besides the working brake column is in there so I need to be able to access it!

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