Tim Hale
Western Thunderer
There is always something happening on the layout, usually a failure or even an attempt to build something. At the moment, there is a very dead N15, King Uther that will need a decoder if the initial fault can fixed, a OOWorks 700 whose motordrive resembles a coffee grinder in both sound and appearance and finally a OOWorks K10 4-4-0 which constantly stalled.
Unfortunately, the OOWorks version of 30382 is fundamentally flawed by the wrong tender, it spent its life coupled to an 8 wheeled watercart, luckily the Hornby T9 tender has a number of virtues that are much needed - all wheel pickup, DCC interface with lots of room. However the initial the drawbar prevented the front two tender wheelsets from contacting the rails, subsequent loss of power.
A new drawbar is a strip of tinplate carefully fettled from a Sainsburys corned beef tin, the front of the tender is NOT fouled by drawbar.……whilst all this was happening two tantalums were added to the tiny Zimo MX616, it should prove to be a solution and a reliable 4-4-0 for the two-car local will emerge.
Testing went OK, it no longer stalls. next, the 700 gets a heart transplant of a HLK small coreless motordrive….
Tim
The K10 is certainly not everyone’s favourite exLSWR loco, neither was it Drummond’s finest design, it was called a ‘small hopper’ because it was only suitable for short trips. Overshadowed by the later T9, it was utilised on secondary routes on local services, pick-up goods, breakdown trains etc. However, I rather like the model, it has the short smokebox, a rather elegant silhouette, basically a bit like a Small Ben.Unfortunately, the OOWorks version of 30382 is fundamentally flawed by the wrong tender, it spent its life coupled to an 8 wheeled watercart, luckily the Hornby T9 tender has a number of virtues that are much needed - all wheel pickup, DCC interface with lots of room. However the initial the drawbar prevented the front two tender wheelsets from contacting the rails, subsequent loss of power.
A new drawbar is a strip of tinplate carefully fettled from a Sainsburys corned beef tin, the front of the tender is NOT fouled by drawbar.……whilst all this was happening two tantalums were added to the tiny Zimo MX616, it should prove to be a solution and a reliable 4-4-0 for the two-car local will emerge.
Testing went OK, it no longer stalls. next, the 700 gets a heart transplant of a HLK small coreless motordrive….
Tim
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