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FR 7mm scale rolling stock availability?
I'm using lockdown for one of my irregular and sporadic attempts to get back into some Proper Modelling in O14 and make some progress with a couple of small projects. I'm not too familiar with what's
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Chris Veitch
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#7565
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Re: ABS Wrightlines
Andy,
Please go ahead. I'm prepared to form part of a small consortium to save
the range if need be. Its the only chance.
David
07483 854417
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David Rae
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#7564
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Re: ABS Wrightlines
David
may I post this on the 7mm NG Association facebook page please?
regards
Andy
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andy binns
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#7563
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Re: Garratt conversion
Happily, the Drummond T-9 which Nick built for me made it through U.S. Customs without a similar maiming! Somewhere "en route", it did receive enough of a jolt to dislodge four of six Tender
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jac19412000
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#7562
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Re: Garratt conversion
Who knows they have x-ray gear nowadays they don’t have to take anything apart, who ever did it should be taken out the back and flogged to death.
Brian
Rawbelle County Workshops
Qld. Aust.
Sent:
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Brian
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#7561
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ABS Wrightlines
The following appeared on the Gauge O Guild forum today. If you know of
any parties who may be interested in a once-only, possibly a collective
chance to acquire/rescue the Wrightlines range, this
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David Rae
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#7560
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Re: Garratt conversion
Brian,
Any idea exactly what Canadian Customs was looking for???
John A. Craig
Brenham, Texas
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Sent: Monday, April 27, 2020 6:56 PM
To: [email protected]
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jac19412000
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#7559
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Re: Garratt conversion
The oil pump you see in the photos of Nick’s Garratt building project is one of my etchings, just for the record too, for all that beautiful work that Nick did on the Garratt and the paintjob done
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Brian
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#7558
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Re: Garratt conversion
Paul,
The frames on the NNG16 are the same for either gauge, if you are able to undo the wheels, you can refit it with the correct gauge wheels, and speaking of wheels don’t use Romford wheels, you
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Brian
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#7557
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Re: Garratt conversion
I? think even if you got an unbuilt kit you would end up doing a lot of extra work (although you would be a lot quicker than me) but I suspect regauging one would be even more and you would
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John C
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#7556
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Re: Garratt conversion
Trouble is, I have been tempted by too many projects now to stick to the timescale. Dinas Station is set in late 1860s but I now have stock from the 1860s right up to 2016... So the layout, once
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Paul Holmes
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#7555
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Re: Garratt conversion
Paul,
You once complained that my De Wintons were too late for Dinas 1869, you'd have problems explaining a NG G16!
Frank
Sent: Monday, 27 April, 2020 18:19
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re:
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Frank Sharp
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#7554
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Re: Garratt conversion
I am going off this idea with each message. It sounds like a big job with associated risks of getting it all wrong! It certainly won’t go up the incline, Frank, nor will it go through the
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Paul Holmes
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#7553
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Re: Garratt conversion
I’ve got one to build and as everyone has said once built it traps the axles so I’m modifying the frames to have sprung high level horn blocks and a few other mods.
The whole kit is a mixture of
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Simon Howard
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#7552
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Re: Garratt conversion
Paul,
As others have said, building to instructions traps the wheels. I have one part built where I've fitted axle boxes. If you decide to go ahead PM me with an address and I'll send you some
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Frank Sharp
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#7551
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Re: Garratt conversion
Paul,
Finished as 138, would make for an appropriate later interloper for Dinas.
First time I saw an NGG16 was in the yard at Glan y Pwll.
Not my photo, but this photo taken at the same time
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Andrew Young
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#7550
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Re: Garratt conversion
?I had to dismantle one engine of my NGG16 to deal with a loose wheel (yes, it can happen with Romfords), and the resultant damage to the flycranks.
This is not an easy job, as the kit underframe
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Allan Dare
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#7549
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Re: Garratt conversion
Hi Paul
That sounds a lot of work for a loco that doesn’t really fit my layout theme of the top end of the FR in the late 1800s... but with some later interlopers like your Merddin.
I will ponder
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Paul Holmes
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#7548
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Re: Garratt conversion
If its built using the supplied wheels they’re Romford so on shouldered
axles so, no pushing them in won’t work. I think you’d end up dismantling
the lot
Paul Martin
*From:* [email protected]
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Paul Martin
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#7547
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Garratt conversion
Hi all
I have been offered the possibility of acquiring an NGG16. It is a fully built Backwoods kit, modified with different motors and gears (not yet sure what) but built, as far as I know, as a
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Paul Holmes
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#7546
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