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Simon Dunkley
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G1 class 22 build
Well, there seems to be a degree of badgering going on here, so I may as well report on the progress made 6 years ago...
Fred has designed the bogies to have enclosed gearboxes (good idea for outdoors) with one (driven) axle fixed, and the other sliding up and down in slots, with a wire spring. The real thing has the wheels fitted into outside bearings, of course, and no unsightly square boxes showing behind the wheels. Needless to say, I had other ideas, for 3 reasons:
1) I was not planning to run in the garden, so did not need the enclosed gearbox showing behind the wheels;
2) I had other ideas about motorising the loco;
3) All axles would be sprung.
As I had already ordered the wheels from Mark Wood, albeit to ScaleOne32 proportions* (the first wheels made thus!) and they had 3/16" diameter axles, I could use Slater's 0 gauge sprung axleboxes.
The first task, therefore, was to re-profile the n/s functional frames to follow the profile of the excellent whitemetal castings, and to cut a suitable slot for the axleboxes. This is a simple scribe and get the piercing saw out job, cleaning up afterwards with files, etc.
The pictures more or less speak for themselves.
Well, there seems to be a degree of badgering going on here, so I may as well report on the progress made 6 years ago...
Fred has designed the bogies to have enclosed gearboxes (good idea for outdoors) with one (driven) axle fixed, and the other sliding up and down in slots, with a wire spring. The real thing has the wheels fitted into outside bearings, of course, and no unsightly square boxes showing behind the wheels. Needless to say, I had other ideas, for 3 reasons:
1) I was not planning to run in the garden, so did not need the enclosed gearbox showing behind the wheels;
2) I had other ideas about motorising the loco;
3) All axles would be sprung.
As I had already ordered the wheels from Mark Wood, albeit to ScaleOne32 proportions* (the first wheels made thus!) and they had 3/16" diameter axles, I could use Slater's 0 gauge sprung axleboxes.
The first task, therefore, was to re-profile the n/s functional frames to follow the profile of the excellent whitemetal castings, and to cut a suitable slot for the axleboxes. This is a simple scribe and get the piercing saw out job, cleaning up afterwards with files, etc.
The pictures more or less speak for themselves.