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Have found out it is an R2037 and indeed it was a beaties special but I cannot find out the year of release. So have not yet found the service sheet but dont think you need iut as these did not change much untill they went to china made locos.

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Thanks ironduke. Magic that works..........John

Having looked at vid it looks to me the first thing I would do is have the pont truck off and check the spring and clean everything. Make sure spring is in place and it is clean and oiled when replaced. Test again If that has not fixed it have look at the tow bar. If the tow bar looks iffy I would g...

Cant see vids sorry.......John

Firstly the R number would help to identifie the chassis. But here goes anyway Take off body and remove the pony truck to check if the spring is in place. I have had in th past bought an A4 from ebay or somewhere and found the springs missing. The result will be intermitent connection or no connecti...

Well all that aside I am looking forward to these coaches and all being well I shall order some. Have one or two locos waiting to pull them which have to put up with cleistory bogie coaches at moment. The only 6 wheelers I have had before were Hornby 6 wheel wagons. They ran fine.

I found this on ebay for just £36 in brand new condition box and all. She is Queen Maud.......Had to put a wire from chassis to pony to make it run propperly because the hormby design was never much good on these but it runs sweet as a nut, now.

Thats what it is all about having fun ....................John

I make weights from old fishing weights. When I mentioned this on another forum they were not happy about it saying that lead was not PC these days. My take on that is we are grown ups now, we dont suck it or our fingers after using the stuff. ........I still use old fishing weights and I learned my...

I have just had a trial running session of a nearly completed Parkside 'BY' Utility Van with a new Hornby Terrier and a couple of Hornby ex-LSWR Maunsell rebuilds. It ran very well without added weight. On the other hand, I didn't put it through anything more challenging than 36" radius points...

I enjoyed it and the right layout was selected I think but I also think there were other near worthy efforts. Noticed the ladies did not even get a mention in the judging in fact all through the program they were hardly mensioned. I thought they made a good one as well. Just because their boat did n...

Hello Flying,,,Could you say that again I am a bit deaf,,,,,,,,Not many teeth either

Are they not both operated by means of a lever or mechical control system Bufferstop. Both are set open or closed by a lever or motor. They seem to be one of the same to me, the only difererence as far as I can see are diferent designs of diferent Railway company practices. They are mainly to protec...

Sorry Bigmet about the Flywheel post I did not notice we were talking about N gauge I was thinking about OO . I make the mistake that everybody else does oo as well.

This new process of being able to print model parts with a copying machine brings a hole new meaning scratch building.
More like kit buiding it sounds to me......John