Richard's Diesel Work Bench 37273 and 46037 and a DJH Class 31

richard carr

Western Thunderer
I have 2 main diesel projects on the go at the moment, the first is D206

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This is a JLTRT kit that a friend started about 10 years ago and got parked on his to do shelf , so I bought it off him about a year ago in a half finished state. It's not fully finished yet, there are a few more bits to add and I'm waiting for some more green paint to touch in a few things.

The main differences from the kit are the brass horn covers, which came from a Pete Harvey Class 37 detailing etch and the inner chassis for the bogies.

This is the replacement inner chassis

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It gives full 3 point compensation over all 4 axles and manages to use the radial bogie castings that come with kit (which is good and really helps it go round corners).
Horn blocks are made from the brass bearings in the kit with a bit of etch

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It uses delrin chain drive to the 3 main axles, there are no pick ups as this is battery powered loco.


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And the other missing thing is some weathering, it will be some fairly gentle weathering as they were kept reasonably clean at this stage of their lives.

Richard
 

richard carr

Western Thunderer
The other project on the go at the moment is to give some TLC to 37273. This is another JLTRT kit built loco that I bought from Simon T on here after it had finished it's duties on Aberbeeg. Here it is in the fiddle yard

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Like a lot of well used exhibition locos it has had a few knocks and bumps along the way but it just needs a few minor repairs to get it back into tip top shape.

The other thing is that I already have enough blue 37s so this one is going to get a repaint into green with a small yellow warning panel. The big question is, should I bother to strip off the old paint, and if so how ?

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I have taken out the glazing already, but I'm beginning to think it isn't worth striping off this paint.

Richard
 

SimonT

Western Thunderer
Halfords primer and Vallejo acrylic paint, none of it labeled BR Blue or Yellow.
The number on the nose was memorably photoshopped by RM to use a proper BR font as they thought I had made a balls as they knew better. They were, of course, wrong as numbers were hand painted on a selection of Newport locos by a couple of spotters using some gloss red paint nicked from of their dad's garage. He had seen a photo of the loco without RMs contribution and came and told me the story at the Warley Show.

There was a driver in the valleys who used to put the train reporting numbers on a large piece of paper that he used to hold up in the windscreen for all spotters he saw. We need Driver Lewis to give us his name.

She is a bit glossy now on the round edges!
Simon
 

Steph Dale

Western Thunderer
PS. I used IPA to remove the paint on the 37 I repainted from blue to green.
Hehe, that's what I was wondering; I thought I recalled a conversation... ;)

Richard, as Simon says, IPA will shift most acrylics and it's completely benign to the resin.

Steph
 

Steph Dale

Western Thunderer
Richard,

I get mine from APC Pure www.apcpure.com go for the 'Isopropyl Alcohol 99.9% ACS' stuff.

Steph

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paulc

Western Thunderer
I have 2 main diesel projects on the go at the moment, the first is D206

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This is a JLTRT kit that a friend started about 10 years ago and got parked on his to do shelf , so I bought it off him about a year ago in a half finished state. It's not fully finished yet, there are a few more bits to add and I'm waiting for some more green paint to touch in a few things.

The main differences from the kit are the brass horn covers, which came from a Pete Harvey Class 37 detailing etch and the inner chassis for the bogies.

This is the replacement inner chassis

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It gives full 3 point compensation over all 4 axles and manages to use the radial bogie castings that come with kit (which is good and really helps it go round corners).
Horn blocks are made from the brass bearings in the kit with a bit of etch

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It uses delrin chain drive to the 3 main axles, there are no pick ups as this is battery powered loco.


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And the other missing thing is some weathering, it will be some fairly gentle weathering as they were kept reasonably clean at this stage of their lives.

Richard
Hi Richard , thats a very nice paint job . Do you have any details as to how the radial axle works .
Cheers Paul
 

richard carr

Western Thunderer
Paul

The radial axle just allows the axle to rotate a little as it moves from side to side, it just gives it that extra bit of movement to help going round tight curves. It is part of the kit and the real thing used one so I really wanted to use it in my chassis if I could. This is a big bogie and it just about gets through a B6 point.

Richard
 

oldravendale

Western Thunderer
I use ACS too, but have previously used RS Components which is another reliable supplier. They also supply in aerosols but I can't think what we may want to use an aerosol for......

Brian
 

mickoo

Western Thunderer
.....yeah, and guess what happens when you put IPA on the coals mate !


Col.:D
Blown turbo, won't get far, good job the other two are doing all the work :D

I caught one at Flagstaff, ground to a halt to let the other engines cool down, spoke to the fitter they'd called from Winslow later, said it was a blown turbo and crew were trying to get over the divide 15 miles away the other side of Flagstaff, then take a run through Seligman and hopefully roll up over Yampai (103 miles) and then down into Needles (225 miles) for an engine change.

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After 40 mins they got going but at a crawl, barely 5-10 mph, the engine wouldn't load up, kept running up to run 5 or 6 then dropping back; they hadn't even got to the steepest part the other side of Flagstaff yet, long and very slow day for the crew. Dispatch had to route everything around it as well, really slowed down traffic that day.
 
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Yorkshire Dave

Western Thunderer
I use ACS too, but have previously used RS Components which is another reliable supplier. They also supply in aerosols but I can't think what we may want to use an aerosol for......

Used as a switch cleaner :). They are usually supplied with a thin tube to insert in the nozzle to direct the spray.
 
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