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- Mon Apr 08, 2019 7:51 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Upgrading Ivor
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8251
Re: Upgrading Ivor
If anyone wants to do the same sort of thing I'm happy to share the file for getting the wheels 3D printed! The chassis needed a fair bit of bodging so you might be better designing one from scratch.
- Sun Mar 24, 2019 6:55 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Upgrading Ivor
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8251
Re: Upgrading Ivor
Chassis and everything finished, Jones the Steam and Dai Station all painted and varnished. I think the effort of making the wheels and chassis from scratch was definitely worth while...
- Sun Nov 25, 2018 7:37 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Upgrading Ivor
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8251
Upgrading Ivor
We bought one of the Ivor kits available as both our boys love Ivor the Engine. I haven't enjoyed building it but that's just me and card kits really. What I did feel let the kit down was the wheels they provided which were also slightly brittle.... https://i.ibb.co/5TG7pZx/PICT0033.jpg When compare...
- Sun Nov 25, 2018 7:19 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Locolines colour fade - should I give it another go?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6808
Re: Locolines colour fade - should I give it another go?
I'm in the process of building their Ivor for our eldest, post on upgrading the chassis to come, and it's fading already just from sitting on my modelling table!
- Sat Mar 17, 2018 9:37 am
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Vale of Fairway
- Replies: 688
- Views: 216373
Re: Vale of Fairway
Make a sign saying "Door to be kept closed when not in use, Order of the management" or words to that effect. Much easier
- Sun Jan 28, 2018 8:12 pm
- Forum: General Garden Railways
- Topic: Good Service from Walsall Model Industries
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3509
Re: Good Service from Walsall Model Industries
Thanks for recommending them, they sell a wheel which is perfect for a future project I'm planning!
- Sat Jan 20, 2018 8:25 pm
- Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
- Topic: Hobbymat MD65
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8449
Re: Hobbymat MD65
I've a little experience from school and working a bit on lathes over the last 4 months. I've recently got comfortable enough to buy a new one (£750 for absolutely everything that I'll need except a dial gauge) and think you are right to wait. Unless there were extras to the one you were looking at ...
- Sat Dec 23, 2017 8:18 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 2018
- Replies: 36
- Views: 16625
Re: Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 2018
Merry Christmas to all
- Sun Dec 10, 2017 7:14 pm
- Forum: Rolling Stock
- Topic: Budget tippers
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8198
Re: Budget tippers
Sorry, been offline for a while with house moves. Here's the original pictures...
I keep meaning to try and make some more as I like their look!
I keep meaning to try and make some more as I like their look!
- Thu Nov 23, 2017 8:40 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: The Ravenser Odd and Saxon Town Railway
- Replies: 19
- Views: 14039
Re: The Ravenser Odd and Saxon Town Railway
Well, due to an impending house move all of the track has been lifted now, all that remains of the railway is the limestone gully which the bridge ran over and the cement ramp which went up to the mine shaft openings. New house has a bigger garden though
- Sun Sep 17, 2017 7:42 am
- Forum: General Garden Railways
- Topic: Filcris alternative?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5504
Re: Filcris alternative?
We had a look at them, when you added shipping filcris was much cheaper for what we wanted.
- Sun Sep 03, 2017 4:56 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Alternative Power
- Topic: Clockwork Wren
- Replies: 27
- Views: 27917
Re: Clockwork Wren
So it's taken a while, paint job isn't finished but I thought I'd try to put together a video of it running! Sorry about the jerkyness of the filming, first attempt and all that! I cut out a few bits and unfortunately the video editor has squished the image a little!
- Sat Jul 08, 2017 10:17 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Portable turntable - North Ings Farm Museum
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4601
Re: Portable turntable - North Ings Farm Museum
One of the other visitors who was there on the day filmed it and put it onto Youtube. The turntable bit starts at around 11 minutes 40 seconds, the family in shot is us!
- Mon Jul 03, 2017 12:59 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Portable turntable - North Ings Farm Museum
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4601
Re: Portable turntable - North Ings Farm Museum
that's it, well a similar model from a different manufacturer. thanks for the great description and picture, I was going to try drawing one later and posting it but a genuine catalogue entry is much better
- Sun Jul 02, 2017 8:08 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Portable turntable - North Ings Farm Museum
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4601
Portable turntable - North Ings Farm Museum
We had a great day today at the North Ings Farm Museum in Lincolnshire. In the best way possible it's just a collection of loco's, rolling stock, tractors and stationary engines run by some really nice people. We were lucky that they needed to move some coaches out of the shed just before we left so...
- Sat Jun 17, 2017 7:52 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Alternative Power
- Topic: Clockwork Wren
- Replies: 27
- Views: 27917
Re: Clockwork Wren
Thanks for all the kind comments, I'll get the final colour coats done and then try and put together some video of it running. Based on how the chassis ran it's going to be fast!
- Wed Jun 14, 2017 8:23 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Alternative Power
- Topic: Clockwork Wren
- Replies: 27
- Views: 27917
Re: Clockwork Wren
Dome turning went a little wrong as I cut the boiler curve a bit too high resulting in a shortened dome. However I still had enough of the PVC bar to make a second dome so that was okay. I've finished off the cab roof with a bit more bracing than a real Wren and sprayed a coat of primer on to see wh...
- Tue Jun 13, 2017 12:43 pm
- Forum: Mamods & MSS
- Topic: Wheel quartering
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4242
Re: Wheel quartering
And the answer is no, if you need to replace an axle on an original mamod you need to either find a second hand one or replace both axles. On the plus side they have updated the wheel set page on their web shop to state that the wheel sets are not cross compatible because of the quartering. Just a b...
- Mon Jun 12, 2017 3:11 pm
- Forum: Mamods & MSS
- Topic: Wheel quartering
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4242
Re: Wheel quartering
Just received an email stating that MSS wheels are quartered differently to Mamod wheels, in spite of the web shop claiming that everything is completely compatible. I await a response to my reply asking if they actually sell compatible wheels :roll: On the other hand the response has been next work...
- Sat Jun 10, 2017 10:03 am
- Forum: Mamods & MSS
- Topic: Wheel quartering
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4242
Wheel quartering
So having found out that my mamod has a warped axle I ordered a replacement set of MSS rear wheels from from dream steam only to discover that one wheel is 180' out when compared to the mamod wheels. I'm assuming that this is a manufacturing error as they are supposed to be direct replacements and h...