7mm Miscellany

Heather Kay

Western Thunderer
Adam - if interest in O gauge tails off, then after forty years I'm still waiting for it to happen!

A slight misreading of Adam's comment? ;)

His implication, and often borne out by my experience with some club types, is the chief interest is in the motive power, and scant interest in what it's pulling. :drool:
 
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AJC

Western Thunderer
A slight misreading of Adam's comment? ;)

His implication, and often borne out by my experience with some club types, is the chief interest is in the motive power, and scant interest in what it's pulling. :drool:

It’s far from universal, obviously, but that’s occasionally how it looks (from the box opening scales). ;)

Adam
 

P A D

Western Thunderer
Tongue firmly in cheek Peter! O does have a certain reputation for interest tailing off behind the loco draw hook and like all stereotypes there may be a grain of truth in it but the steel medfit looks good and a close up is deserved. Much more my kind of thing!

Adam

Hi Adam,
In my case there is certainly little interest in things behind the draw hook, so I am Mr Stereotype. :D In 30 years of building 0 gauge locos (nearly all steam), I have only ever built a couple of van's and did up some Lima coaches for my brother. As to track and layout work, that's alchemy as far as I am concerned. That said, I appreciate good modelling across the board and when it comes to all the stuff behind the drawhook, Mick is up there with the best of them.

I think those wagon may be finished now, but either way I'll take some photos and put them up.

Cheers,
Peter
 

oldravendale

Western Thunderer
I'm with you, Peter. I certainly appreciate good model building of any sort and have, myself, built a plethora of wagons and quite a few coaches. It's just that, as I've expounded previously, I want to build as many versions of the locos I remember as I possibly can. As we've said, it's a broad church and I enjoy anything of quality - and anything of less than good quality if it's part of the learning process.

Having said which, apologies for misreading your comment, Adam.:oops:

Brian
 

AJC

Western Thunderer
... As we've said, it's a broad church and I enjoy anything of quality - and anything of less than good quality if it's part of the learning process.

Having said which, apologies for misreading your comment, Adam.:oops:

Brian

Not a problem, Brian - I can admire these beautiful hi-fi locos and your battle with the K, but I've only a limited desire to emulate them (especially the effort required for the latter, lovely machines though they were).

Adam
 

P A D

Western Thunderer
Hi Adam,
Some closer views of the medfit after painting, but not yet weathered. Mick scratch built it and detailed it with mostly Slaters parts from the spares box.
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The other wagon pictured with the medfit was also scratch built and is fitted with a track cleaner. Again it was detailed with parts from the spares box. It is based on this wagon.
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It's a bit freelance as I think he said they didn't run in this livery, but he just wanted a wagon to fix the track cleaner to which he runs with an engineers train.
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The other vehicles in the train are from kits, plus a RTR Dogfish from Heljan. Here's the kit built Dogfish.
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And the Shark.
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And the three together.20191122_190523.jpg

And some view of the ends. Nice vehicles, the pair of them. I should have added the Heljan one for comparison, but it was not on the layout and I forgot about it. Both ars still to be weathered along with the Heljan vehicle.
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Cheers,
Peter
 

AJC

Western Thunderer
Thank you, Peter. I'd be well pleased with any of those, particularly the Medfit (a favourite prototype). Thank you both for sharing those images.

Adam
 

mickoo

Western Thunderer
Have to confess, in the original (wagon discussion starting) photo, I though an Airfix 1:48 Spitfire canopy had fallen under the wagon :eek:

Turns out it's a track cleaning device :thumbs:
 

Osgood

Western Thunderer
Peter, can you offer any more info on the track cleaning device please? Is the metallic cylinder a magnet?
 

P A D

Western Thunderer
Hi Mick,
Yeah, I can see where you are coming from.

Tony,
I think the the metal is just a weight but I'm not sure. There are some sort of abrasives to go on the perspex not present in the photos.

Mick (our kid),
Please can you explain how the cleaner functions and the supplier.

Cheers,
Peter
 

P A D

Western Thunderer
Perhaps a small bribe is in order :)....... and never mind the 'proper stuff'.

Hi Dave,
I was expecting a repost from Mick by now. Something along the lines of how he taught me to solder, which is true. He was building 4mm etched kits long before I was, while I was still glueing K's kit together. I scratch built a Jinty for him from plastic, brass and aluminium all glued. The chassis was a screw together affair so the only soldering was the pick ups which he did. It now runs under a Jim Harris chassis.
Once he got into 0 gauge, he spent all his time on the layout and wagons etc, so I took on the loco building. Having said that he has built a few 7mm locos and he is a bloody good builder. There, that has saved my workbench from ending up on his lawn. :)

Cheers,
Peter
 

Jinty 52

Member
Hi folks,

The cleaning units are manufactured by KPF Zeller in Germany and are marketed in the UK by Ten Commandments, from whom I purchased them (usual disclaimer).

The metal cylinders are merely weights that clip into the perspex. Adhesive abrasive strip pads are stuck on to the perspex where it rests on the track and the wagon can then be pushed along the track by a locomotive. The pads can then be peeled off and replaced with fresh ones. I have only tested it without the pads and was surprised by how much dirt accumulated on the Perspex. Hopefully the pads will do the same! The units can be easily removed and I will get Peter to post pictures of the underside. Also, now would be a good time to fully test it out and post a picture of the results.

It can never be a substitute for proper cleaning of the track - tedious but necessary, but I'm hoping it will help, along with the Gaugemaster Electronic Track cleaner wired into the system. I read somewhere that this is not suitable for O Gauge, but it has worked fine for many years on my 11 x 8 foot railway

Your workbench is safe Peter - I haven't the time to look for and remove my borrowed stuff. In addition, I know when I'm on to a good thing!

Mick
 

simond

Western Thunderer
A recent discussion on the G0G forum prompted me to note that “electronic track cleaners” may have the potential to cause distressing emissions of smoke and naughty words if combined with locos equipped with DCC decoders.

This is “old news”, and I don’t know for sure that it’s true, but another member confirmed it.

I can imagine why it might be true, and I can imagine why it might not, and I don’t have the knowledge & information to arrive at a rational conclusion.

However, forewarned, etc

Atb
Simon
 

Peter Cross

Western Thunderer
I'll be ok then, pure DC for me. I don't like sound, and being the layout will only ever be small one loco in steam I really didn't see the point of the expense. There also seems to be just as many wires for the 2 wire system.
 

Jinty 52

Member
I forgot to mention that my layout is pure DC only, so no problem with DCC chips going up in smoke!
My understanding is that the Gaugemaster (and earlier Relco) "electronic" cleaners are not compatible with DCC.
 
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