Can anyone help.
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I want to get the wheels off.
Well first of all, I hope it's only the XD card that's playing up with the colours that are coming up and not the camera.Anyway, I thought I'd put some pick ups on this because it uses the pinpoint axles and bearings and they don't seem to work very well. You can probably see that I've put in a Zimo SC68 stay alive but I'd sooner not have to use it.
I had the body off, weight out, motor out and can only see that I'd have to cut the brake gear off (as I did on the Beattie Well Tank, also made by Dapol). Or am I missing something.
Has anyone else got one and has been able to do this, what should be a simple job ? Here it is.
Cheers Pete.
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Any chance of a look at the chassis? Are those axles being used with the pinpoints in the outside frames?
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Cheers Pete.
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Just a decent upside down close-up. I'm just interested, seems a bit daft to have this sort of design. How do you keep it clean? I presume these are split axles and live wheels. Hopefully not a split chassis. Alan Gibson type plungers work well in tight spaces, and you hace all that wheel to work with by the look of things.. You could always resort to a whisker running on the upper tread surface.
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Cheers Pete.
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Interesting. How much lateral slop is there and are those wheels in gauge? Electrical continuity will be between the upper surface of the axle and the contact with the bearing (assuming the manufacturing tolerances are correct and the slopes are the same), some additional weight would make sure the contact is maintained over rough spots. I would solder whiskers to the p/b arms if you can get them out and have them contact the axle inward of the axle cone, or the front face of the wheel. Or the wheel tread surface. 10 or 15 thou' p/b wire should be fine. You could also mount some brass strip across the chassis for p/b wires. I suspect more weight and in gauge wheels will help unless there is excessive slop in the cones. Difficult to regauge split axle designs unless it is a really tight fit. Can be done with packing discs the same diameter as the axle.
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Thanks for the help Nigel.
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Pete, I have the same loco and it runs perfectly. Why not contact Model Rail with a view to returning it for a replacement?
Terry
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Cheers Pete.
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It now runs nicely without the stay alive cap and circuit cluttering up the cab.
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I've written to Dapol (it was one of the original offered by Model Rail, but made by Dapol) and asked if they'll send me a new set of wheels. I see that another release came out late last year, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
Has anyone else had this, or am I the only one?
Cheers Pete.
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Split axles? There really is no excuse for this. Expect it on old models before the source of the problem was known, not now. Hopefully a new set is in the mail.
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Cheers Pete.
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Then I think an email to Ben Jones is called for.
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Ps: There's plenty of Jones' in Wales.
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Not to be confused with DS Ben Jones of Midsomer Murders
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If not, what are we supposed to do if something goes wrong with a model that's out of warranty as this one is but is otherwise, apart from a small part, quite serviceable.
I didn't realise when I bought this that it had split axles and might have made a different decision if had.
Cheers Pete.
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