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Western Thunderer
I thought i'd share my (3) 16T mineral Wagon's workbench with you all. I'm very much a novice at ... basically everything to do with model railways. So please bear with me.
I bought 3 wagons on a trip to Rails of Sheffield (secondhand shop). The previous owner had just spray them grey & added coal !!.
So first, i stripped them down to the original state. Which was yellow Hall & Dean wagons. Then i cut the wheels out (to be replaced with Slaters metal wheels).
Then i got some lighter fluid & with a drop on a cottonbud (borrowed from the wife) rubbed the lettering off, from all three wagons.
I dismantled the bodies from the chassis's. On the first chassis, after turning it over, i removed the coupling (repeating on all chassis's & on both ends of them). I also removed the coupling block with a hand saw & filed flush to the base.
I bought 3 wagons on a trip to Rails of Sheffield (secondhand shop). The previous owner had just spray them grey & added coal !!.
So first, i stripped them down to the original state. Which was yellow Hall & Dean wagons. Then i cut the wheels out (to be replaced with Slaters metal wheels).
Then i got some lighter fluid & with a drop on a cottonbud (borrowed from the wife) rubbed the lettering off, from all three wagons.
I dismantled the bodies from the chassis's. On the first chassis, after turning it over, i removed the coupling (repeating on all chassis's & on both ends of them). I also removed the coupling block with a hand saw & filed flush to the base.