Scale7 wheel plans

[Dog Star]

I introduced 7mm modelling to Simon Caygill when he was in the Basingstoke Club... at which point Simon left to return to Newcastle. We have kept in touch and Simon has asked similar questions of me as I use S7 standards. After a while Simon joined the S7 Group and has started his own NE (region) layout. You might benefit from exchaning views with Simon via the PM route - look in members for "Caggers".

regards, Graham (member of the S7 Group)

 

[Hester]

I introduced 7mm modelling to Simon Caygill when he was in the Basingstoke Club... at which point Simon left to return to Newcastle. We have kept in touch and Simon has asked similar questions of me as I use S7 standards. After a while Simon joined the S7 Group and has started his own NE (region) layout. You might benefit from exchaning views with Simon via the PM route - look in members for "Caggers".

regards, Graham (member of the S7 Group)

Thank you Dogstar, appreciated. But you have also neatly skidded around my questions, you being a S7 group member. With the greatest respect, this has happened to me before where I have been left hanging and all it does is create suspicion about running reliability. If you see what I mean

Regards Heater

 

[adrian]

Hi,

Can we keep this thread on topic please - it is very specific title - Scale7 wheel plans.

If there are queries about running reliability of "to scale" standards this is probably best served with a specific thread in it's own right. In the meantime just searching on Western Thunder for Croscombe Magna or West Mersea should provide the answer for Scale7.

 

[Hester]

To prevent any further upset, I`ll start a new thread.

 

[DavidinAus]

Hester, I live in Australia, which I think gives an advantage when it comes to SPACE: I have a colliery layout in my cellar. All based around a 4m diameter circle of track (because I like to see continuous running), with deliberately-made gradients, viaducts and embankments, which means that my trackwork is, in places, very colliery-like (ie uneven).
S7 in my experience means that you have to be a little more careful with trackwork, and I haven't yet built my first eight-coupled locomotive. However as I am the only S7 modeller in NSW, as far as I know, it's possible to do it without a lot of hands-on help, and I'd NEVER go back to Finescale: it's too difficult to make all the compromises work together.
An 0-4-0+0-4-0 Garratt makes for a very interesting and prototypical locomotive for a colliery layout (see my "avatar"!).
If you have good broadband and ideally an Apple, look at my video of the model Garratt running, on

http://69.195.124.76/~coulshed/australian-family-events/page/2/

You can see the piles of coal, the "screens", etc of the colliery ....

David

 

[Len Cattley]

Getting back to wheel plans has the S7 group recieved the 4'3" Stanier tender wheels yet?

Len

 

[pcalkel]

Getting back to wheel plans has the S7 group recieved the 4'3" Stanier tender wheels yet?

Len

Hi Len, yes we have the 4' 8" drivers and the 4' 3" tender wheels, but I am still waiting for the bogie wheels and when I have them I will put an announcement the next newsletter and on the website

Paul
S7 Stores

 

[Len Cattley]

Hi Paul is that the new Stanier 4'3" tender wheels with the back and front shape? And how much are they (sorry to hi-jack your thread SteadyRed)

Len