Hi
I am new to 009 but been a 00 modeller and model engineer for a number of years.
I have a Golden Arrow chassis kit for the The Earl but I am not sure about gearbox, motor and wheels.
The instructions advise to use a 27:1 gearset with a Mashima M16K motor and 10.5mm disk wheels
High level have suggested the Slimliner 54:1 ratio box for better slow running and as the mashima motor is now unavailable use the smallest motor the 1015FE.
Regarding the wheels would these be say disk tender or rolling stock wheels regauged be suitable?
Any advice would be appreciated.
Malcolm
I have one of these myself in the 'pending' pile and asked Andy Cundick (who with his own and those built for others done more than the W&L had!) for advice.
He recommended the same High Level motor & gearbox combination, the 10mm wheel sets from Mosskito with their square ended extended axles, bearings and cranks. The Mosskito parts are available from Light Railway Stores, but the cranks were out of stock when I last looked and I'm not sure how easy it would be to make a square hole the correct size (and shape) in the kit's etched cranks, and get all 6 with the square hole in the correct orientation.
So far I've bagged everything but the cranks...
If you don't fancy the idea of swapping the Mosskito wheels onto the square ended axle then I've also used standard gauge rolling stock wheels (generally a OO/EM profile, though 3mm scale ones would also do the job) for NG locos with outside frames (for OOn3 Worsley Works kits). If you can get sets with straight axles (as opposed to pin point ends) it may make life easier, especially if you gate the sort that are live to one side as the 'live' wheel is often splined to the axle and will not move in. But as you are going to cut them to length then that may not be so crucial.
You are going to have to follow Julien's ideas and the wheels, gears and motor intended for this kit are all no longer available.
The cranks etc are available as a complete unit with two axles 8 mm wheels and eight cranks according to the website all you need to do is swap the 8mm wheels for the 10mm wheels the axles are shouldered which makes the job easier.If you are going to the Oxford bash this saturday i'll be there with a couple of them .If not our Skills Day on the10th of August at Pewsey it's one of the things i'll be demonstrating ,after having built 7 of them i'm getting the hang of themthough expecting the imminent announcement of the ready to run oner Andy.
It looks like the 10mm wheels are out of stock at the moment, but as soon as they are back in I will order some.
Many thanks for all your help very much appreciated.
Its a long way off yet but where is the go to place for Etched plates and transfers?
Quote from: 9366MJON on June 23, 2024, 08:11Its a long way off yet but where is the go to place for Etched plates and transfers?
Golden Arrow do nameplates (and maybe works plates) to match the prototypes, but the other alternative would be Light Railway Stores / Narrow Planet, and I'd recommend the latter if you want to use freelance names as they will do custom etching (One day I'll get a pair of 'Allaboardthe' plates for a Kerr Stuart Skylark I have in the kit stash...)
I used Narrow Planet for the plates.The ones Golden Arrow do are slightly too large and if you do the early GW version with the plates on the cab side they're too long.Andy