Accucraft IOM's

SillyBilly · Post by **SillyBilly** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 8:35 pm

Of course if you have 2ft 6in radius curves, you may have trouble running theses coaches

. I'm still happy!

Chris Cairns · Post by **Chris Cairns** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 8:12 pm

Great video. Thanks for posting the link.

Trains do not look right though. In many years of visiting the Isle of Man Steam Railway I have never experienced a train where more than 2 of the coaches are the same type, same dimensions & same colour. And never been on a train with all coaches the same.

I'm sure it probably happened in the old days when the coaches were originally painted those colours.

SillyBilly · Post by **SillyBilly** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 4:37 pm

I was talking to my dad about moving the wheelsets inwards (as it would be a relitively easy job, but he reckons it will cause all sorts of troubles, thankfully I've got a long straight section so I'll be operating 'shuttle services' to connect to the loop line train on selected days.

mhlr · Post by **mhlr** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 8:19 pm

apparently you can fit some thin tubeing (nitting needles I heard

) so it prevents them moving about.

SillyBilly · Post by **SillyBilly** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 10:03 pm

Prevent what moving about, the axles?

mhlr · Post by **mhlr** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 10:57 pm

SillyBilly wrote:Prevent what moving about, the axles?

mhm

SillyBilly · Post by **SillyBilly** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 11:47 pm

That won't solve our problems of the wheelbase though sadly I'll ask my Grandma for a old needle when I see her next.

mhlr · Post by **mhlr** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 11:59 pm

SillyBilly wrote:That won't solve our problems of the wheelbase though sadly I'll ask my Grandma for a old needle when I see her next.

soz not paying enough attention

SillyBilly · Post by **SillyBilly** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:06 pm

Thanks for that Eric, I shall attempt the re-gauging later this week.

ptlrcecil · Post by **ptlrcecil** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:39 pm

The Back to back should be 28.5 mm as set by Big big and what every other company (Roundhouse, Mamod etc) has followed. I checked mine and there fine. We have had wagon wheels out of guage before but since we own a lathe we were able to machine them to corret tolerance. If you know someone with a lathe (Not me Im snowed under as it is) it might be worth getting them machined.

SillyBilly · Post by **SillyBilly** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 12:30 am

I've just used Eric's tip, work fine now. Would be better to machine them but that would require asking somone with the skill of wheel turning

.

ptlrcecil · Post by **ptlrcecil** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 12:47 pm

Well If it works. Still seems a bit dodgy though.

mhlr · Post by **mhlr** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 7:13 pm

Surely it would have been cheaper to just fit a section of fuel line to each end of the axel like Tag G has... works perfectly well...

SillyBilly · Post by **SillyBilly** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 7:31 pm

Profile of the flanges Pete, Garden Rail also suggests that Accy wil provide spacers to prevent the side movement.

ptlrcecil · Post by **ptlrcecil** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 6:11 pm

Am I the only one who has yet to have a major issue with these carriges or any accucraft stuff. I keep hearing horrer stories off everyone but yet to have any problems myself. Exept for a blocked staem line but that can happen to anyone.

SillyBilly · Post by **SillyBilly** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 7:07 pm

No your not, the piston valves on my Edrig nearly fell off the spindles, but that was an easy fix when you know somone who knows what they're doing.

MuzTrem · Post by **MuzTrem** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 4:48 pm

Well, my L&B wagon has never given me any trouble...

SillyBilly · Post by **SillyBilly** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 4:57 pm

These have G scale flanges and we run on SM32.

ptlrcecil · Post by **ptlrcecil** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 12:29 pm

Ive never had the pistons fall off the spindles but ive had the spindle come away from the cross head so it was running on one cylinder. I wondered why it was running a bit lumpy that day.

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