Slater's 6 Wheel Milk Tank Wagon kit help

sulzer

sulzer

Active Member
Hello
As a new member to this forum I should like to ask if anyone has recently constructed the Slaters 6 wheel Milk Tanker and if they have can they explain how the draw bar is actually supposed to be fitted. A 4 wheel tank wagon by Slaters had 2 springs (one supplied spring needing cutting into different lengths). I am finding that the instructions with this kit are to be polite, vague in certain areas. It is also not clear how the plastic pipe they refer to on the underside fits... Hve probably made up so 40 or so of various manufacturer's kits, this one I am finding more than a challenge and I want to get it right come hell or high water! Have found some useful photos on site but none showing the underside of this kit.....
Bryan
 
Phill Dyson

Phill Dyson

Western Thunderer
Simon

Simon

Flying Squad
Excellent references there:thumbs:

The gauge One kit is the same I think, it certainly has the same"central spring" arrangement.

For what it's worth I found the (G1) instructions utterly baffling at several points, but it builds into a really good model as does the 7mm example and is well worth persevering with.

Which reminds me I must weather the "day-glo" blue Express Dairies livery on mine:oops:

Simon
 
Railwaymaniac

Railwaymaniac

Western Thunderer
Hi Bryan, and welcome to the forum. :thumbs:

Not quite the usual 'first post' of who and how you are, but still. . . And you score LOTs of plus points if you can post a pic of where the problem lies . . . :)

Ian
 
sulzer

sulzer

Active Member
Brilliant Thank You Phill. Martyn thanks for the link as yet untried... I am determined not to let this kit beat me lol

Hows this Ian!
I am a serving Marine Engineer Officer in the RFA (Royal Fleet Auxiliary) and write this from my ship just finishing a 5 month refit in Falmouth I am the Chief Engineer for my many sins..... My son (19) and I have an interest in the Last of Steam and early BR era in O gauge. I am lucky to own 3 Lionheart Panniers, GWR, Black and green lined liveries , a couple of Heljan 33's. and a 37 I have a 12ft long 12ft radius 'shunting layout in a bedroom, a 4ft radius oval test track in a loft and a 6ft radius garden test track . So we are able to run and shunt trains at our leisure. My son has posted short videos of the garden layout so if you YOU TUBE Pannier, 33 or 37 you will sure to see them ! Be pleased to know what you guys think. All the wagons save a couple of Lionheart are kits we have built. Weathering of locos and wagons is by a great guy named Bob Dutta from Enfield.

In finishing have just managed to upload a pic of the Garden Test track. The eagle eyed amongst you will see 2O gauge tracks on the outer side and 3 OO tracks inner. We have too much OO stock to not run!. Ballasting of the O gauge track has progressed to 50% of the 10 sections now. No.1 son the expert. Layout takes 45 mins to set up.

This is a brilliant forum and I am pleased to be able to join - thanks!

Bryan
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Rob Pulham

Rob Pulham

Western Thunderer
Welcome Bryan :thumbs:
I am curious as to the garden is that a space within a space design to contain the railway? Or does it just appear that way from the photo vantage point - either way I am quite envious:'(
 
sulzer

sulzer

Active Member
Hi Martyn
Have posted a reply on your link but thought I ought to thank you personally for your prompt response (and to all others too!) I am so pleased to have found this forum. This kit is giving me grief - correction was - now I have your assistance then I am feeling much more confident .....that I might get a passable result.

Kind regards

Bryan
 
sulzer

sulzer

Active Member
Hello Rob

Thanks for your interest. I wish I had a garden layout like Phill who was the 1st to be kind enough to respond to my query! However I live in a first floor flat ( for the time being) and being a sea-farer do not want lots of garden. It IMG_3453.JPGso happens that I have a patio area which is conveniently 12ft wide and I have constructed this Garden Layout track which as you can see takes up every inch of the available space lol...... It is in ten sections which bolt together.I will attach a picture of the first sections in the process of build so you can see how it all goes together. My son and I have had great fun with it and it has been erected about 8 times now . We look for a clear fine day and usually have had 6-8 hours running before having to dismantle and stow away in the shed.

So if anyone asks me what I do when I gohome on leave for 4 months there you have the answer...
Kind regards

Bryan
 
Rob Pulham

Rob Pulham

Western Thunderer
Thanks Bryan, that makes perfect sense. I couldn't think of a better way to spend your leave. :thumbs:

I look forward to seeing more.
 
sulzer

sulzer

Active Member
Check out You Tube Rob as there are some 2-3 min videos of the the stock running around the garden layout. We fooled around with a camera on a flat bed wagon and ran this on the inside O gauge track behind a Lion heart Pannier and set it to record what was running on the outside track. Took a few goes before we perfected the process and got speeds matched but it does give me some pleasure when I am away at sea to be able to enjoy the moments. Vantage point for the photo was my kitchen window whilst preparing lunch.....

Kind regards

Bryan Attached the Lionheart GWR Pannier on the garden layout - got to plug Lionheart they are brilliant models RTR
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sulzer

sulzer

Active Member
Calling for a bit of weathering don't you think? Nothing wrong with growing rhubarb in fact it is very nice in a crumble and even better made into wine. Now think of sitting in the garden/patio with a glass watching the trains go by....... Enough of this got to get modelling now I know the secrets of success...
 
sulzer

sulzer

Active Member
Good evening Prof!
The clue is in my profession...I am a Marine Engineer and although there were Sulzer engines fitted to railway locomotives there are even larger ones fitted to Ships. The bore of the Sulzer engine I work with is 900mm, yes 900mm and that is not the biggest that Sulzer ever produced. Now the prototype Deltic is one of my favourtite and perhaps the most iconic locomotive ever........and so owning both a Bachmann OO and the Loveless O gauge one, then I chose it as my WT picture for the time being! Ha ha does this explain things? Good spot though !!!! Hope you had a nice holiday?!
Kind regards
Bryan
PS - Sulzer being a Swiss company designed the biggest marine diesel 2 stroke slow speed engine in the world - why did they stop? Well Switzerland being a land locked country they were limited in transporting components by the size of the Swiss Railway System Tunnels.....They were of course later made under licence in other parts of the world.....As Micahel Caine once said ' not many people know that ' lol I will have a think and see if I can find/post a better picture that connects my 'tag' or should I simply become 'Nappier'? uummm what a dilemma...
 
ZiderHead

ZiderHead

Western Thunderer
What a whopper!

I checked out your youtube, nice to see (and hear) a tractor chugging along at a realistic speed :thumbs:
 
sulzer

sulzer

Active Member
:) Thanks for checking it out, My Son who posts these vids is always pleased to see the number of watchers grow. My favourite is the Class 33. Have you seen that one? Am awaiting delivery of a Peter Clark built Class 205 Thumper but awaiting SW Digital to release the sounds for the sound card.
Kind regards
Bryan
 
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