Bachmann L & YR 2-4-2 Tank
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New model has arrived.
This beauty arrived on my doormat today from Hattons:Terry
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John, cost only £71.36 plus postage, and total time to open box= 20 seconds. Why would you want to build a kit? Life is too short to mess around sticking bits of brass together. Whack it on ebay and treat yourself.Oooh! You are a lucky chap. I'm tempted but I have a kit. Now where did I put my hair shirt?
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Tell me have Bachman arranged a pivot on the rear axle for those tight curves?
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Derek.
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Very nice model. When you are done looking at it, you can send it to me. My address is…. :mrgreen:
Cheers, Gary.
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Will you be running it on DC or DCC? I would be interested to see where the decoder goes. I am sure I read somewhere it has a 6 pin decoder fitting?
Bob
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You are right Bob they changed it from the standard Bachmann 21 pin to a 6 pin (I believe the 64xx Panniers will also be 6pin)Hi terry
Will you be running it on DC or DCC? I would be interested to see where the decoder goes. I am sure I read somewhere it has a 6 pin decoder fitting?
Bob
If Terry is DC hopefully I will be able to tell you how it works DCC before Christmas with the LMS variant!
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[user=11]Novice[/user] wrote:You are right Bob they changed it from the standard Bachmann 21 pin to a 6 pin (I believe the 64xx Panniers will also be 6pin)Hi terry
Will you be running it on DC or DCC? I would be interested to see where the decoder goes. I am sure I read somewhere it has a 6 pin decoder fitting?
Bob
If Terry is DC hopefully I will be able to tell you how it works DCC before Christmas with the LMS variant!
Thanks John, I would be interested to know where the decoder etc goes and how much space there is for speaker too.
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Max fitted sound into a Hornby Terrier so I guess it can fit into this loco with some effort.
Thanks John, I would be interested to know where the decoder etc goes and how much space there is for speaker too.
Ron
NCE DCC ; 00 scale UK outline.
NCE DCC ; 00 scale UK outline.
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Both front and rear pony trucks are fixed but the axles have quite a bit of side play (5mm in each direction). The drivers have about 2mm side play in each direction. I haven't run it yet but I understand that a couple of the magazines have already done a review.
Terry
:)Thanks Terry,
Hmm, Might not be to hard to convert to EM gauge then.
There will be a bit less sideplay on the wheels but the easier radius curves in EM should counter that.
I believe Lenz have introduced a new small decoder which might do the job.
regards,
Derek.
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There appear to be pick-ups only on the driving wheels, effectively making the loco an 0-4-0 for electrical pick-up purposes. The driving wheels are spaced at approximately 34.5 mm. I am wondering how it will perform across complex pointwork.
Terry
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I was wondering about the axle arrangement those 2-4-2,s had a long wheel base which would have caused real problems with fixed axle,s.
I am suprised that Bachman pivoted front and rear axle,s as the real one,s used a rear radial axle.
Hmm,power pickup could be a pain on long crossings etc. Although not so much with live frog points.
If I was going to kit bash it I would fix the front axle with some sideplay and add pickups to the front wheels?.
Anyway best to run it and see Terry.
regards,
Derek.
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There are a couple of threads in the other place and I found this
Dont know if that means both leading and trailing wheels pick up or just the one live to the axle? But better than nothingAlso discovered the leading and trailing wheels pick up as well as all four driving wheels. One wheel of each of the radial axles is live to its axle, one side at the front and t'other side at the rear, and passes the current to the main pick up strips in the keeper plate….a very neat arrangement. Oh, and if you decide to remove the keeper plate….beware…..the radial truck springs can fly out! Many thanks to Bob Blood for allowing me to discover this!
Fairly heavy snowfall here so I doubt if I will see mine this side of Xmas
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Looking at the close up photo one can just make out pickups on the front and rear wheels.
Lovely looking loco.
regards,
Derek
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