Hi
Thanks very much for your detailed reply, and your advice on method.
Thanks again.
Andy G.

Hi Folks, Happy New Year to All. I am currently wanting to line the side water tanks, and cab sides on my ex GWR 1500 class "SPEEDY" locomotive, with the British Railways white and red pin stripes. I wonder could anybody provide me with the white and red pin stripe (width) sizes, and space between p...

Hi Norm
Thanks for the reply.
I will now let the supplier know the type required.
Thanks also for the additional information with regard to working with the material and choice of drill etc.
Best Wishes.
Andy G.

Hi Folk's I am ordering some boiler making materials. The supplier is saying that gun metal has now been generally replaced as modern materials go by bronze. He is asking if I want sae660 leaded cast bronze or Pb102 hard drawn bronze (90% copper) To make the Main steam pipe (smoke box bush), Main (b...

Cheers Dave,
thanks for the encouragement.
I will let you know how it turns out.

Thanks for your input also 'Scrat, I have now made the two axle end rollers the same size as the axle material and spaced the bolster to the same distance as it was originally with a thick washer ( as you suggested Dave). The bolster does still not flex about freely. This seems to be because the bol...

Hi Dave,
Thanks for your suggestion. It sounds an easy fix (thankfully).
I will try it out and let you know how I get on.
It all sounds to make perfect sense.
Cheers
Andy G.

Hi Dave,
Thanks for your reply.
Nice to hear from you, hope you are o/k.
Yes your description of what I have is spot on.
I hope if this is a common problem, somebody has thought of a cure for it.
I hope you or another GL 5 member can enlighten me as to keeping on the rails.
Best Wishes.
Andy G.

Hi Folks, I am having problems with the suspension (or lack of it) on my driving truck. I have put the details of this topic in the (freight rolling stock) section. If anybody thinks they could help with suggestions on how the suspension should be set up, then please take a look. Any suggestions wou...

Hi Folks, I have bought a driving truck. It is the design of a long low sided truck. It has 8 wheels, set on 2 individual bogeys. This type seems quite common among the GL5 membership. I wonder if anybody could provide me with the set up and some photos, of how 'if any springing' is utilised to keep...

Hi Eddy, thanks for your reply and advice. Yes you are correct, the axles do have centres in the ends. My thoughts were to make a mandrell to hold the wheels on (like a stub axle), to true up the individual wheels and re-profile them prior to going onto the axles,(having first re-bored them in the 3...

Hi Folks, The driving truck I bought a while back had wheels that needed correctly re-profiling and setting to run truly on the axles. The wheels had previously been glued on. I have had the wheels removed and am now wanting to sort them out. I plan to machine the axle diameter down a little, re-bor...

Hi again Guy's, Just an update on the smoke box re-paint. Thanks for you suggestions, I chose to use my drill and wire disk wheel, (sorry Ballan), it was just so handy. I then (as you both suggested ) painted gloss engine laquer directly onto the brass smoke box and steel rings and door. I ran the e...

Thanks for taking the time and making the effort to reply fellas.
I will take your advice and get cracked on.
Jim, Boadicea looks great and the write ups are brilliant.
Ballan, see you at Shildon mate.
Best Wishes
Andy G.

Hi again folks, I am going to strip the old paint off of my brass smoke box, any suggestions ? A, wire disk wheel in electric drill. B, Fine shot blast material in air gun. C, Chemical paint stripper and elbow grease. Having stripped the box back to brass, what is the best sequence and materials to ...

Thanks to all three of you for your replies and suggestions.
I think I will go with the general purpose silicone Eddy, (thanks for confirming that it lasts a long time without adverse effect under high temperature).
Best Wishes to all.
Andy G.

Hi Folks, Can anybody suggest a good brand of sealant to use for the seal where the smoke box meets the boiler barrel ? I suppose I could use silicone sealant. I wondered if there was a sealant that would do the job which would stay supple, making it easy to remove the smoke box in the future,as app...

Thanks Brent for that input.
I too, would have taken it for granted that a model produced by a quality manufacturer, would have been true to scale.
Cheers
Andy G.

Hi Alan,
Thanks for the information.
I have ''hopefully'' private messaged you with my contact detail's.
Cheers.
Andy G.

Thanks Ballan for making that clear, The narrow gauge being different from standard gauge had not registered with me prior to this comment from Brent. It is of interest to me, as I along with other's at our club have been lobbying a move to install the third rail giving access to the 5" sector of th...