Five79 L&B 009 Bogie Open wagon kit

[Barry Witteridge]

I ordered on Tuesday and received today two of the RC881 009 L&B bogie open wagons from Five79, a great service and a nice looking kit, good value for £10 each.

[B.Meldon]

What is the betting that the plastic parts although designed by Five79 are actually produced in Dundas Model's injection moulding machine?
Does the kit come with the Greenwich wheels with the 2mm axles?
Or do you have to get these yourself at about £1.75 an axle?

Does the kit come with couplings? Or do you also have to get these yourself?

[Stan Williams]

No wheels or couplings provided.

Dundas Models does not produce any plastic kits as I am led to believe ,that Andrews kits are produced by Peco.

Stan.

[MickT]

That's my understanding as well Stan. When the Parkside part of Parkside Dundas separated and was taken over by Peco, I think I remember reading somewhere that the injection moulding side of the business went to Peco as part of the arrangements.

I may be wrong of course, so if anyone knows differently, we'd all appreciate an update please!

Mick

[garrywhiting]

Dundas still do some of their own injection moulding. I had to phone Andrew a fortnight or so ago, & since we usually have a chat after the business bit of the conversation, the calls can last some time.  This time Andrew cut short the call almost immediately --- saying "I'm here on my own today & I'm busy making things with the moulding machine, -- I'll phone you back when I'm finished".
So I had to wait a couple of hours to place my order & have our chat.

So some moulding does take place at Millie Street.

Garry

[Simon Hargraves]

As far as I know, Five79 do their own moulding.