750 woes and the ALF (not the one from Home & Away)

Hello again to my ZERO followers...

Jumping around like a blue-arsed fly, I've been fiddling - well my friend Darren and I have - with our Trainbuilder 750 class locos with varying degrees of success. We managed to sort out the tender running issues fairly easily - although it took some experimentation and time - with varying solutions to the problem.

On my 750 (SAR 750) the solution to the tender woes appears to be removing one or both bogie springs and fitting washers/spacers between the bolster and the bogie just on the rear tender bogie. On Darren's 752 we removed the front tender bogie spring and fitted a plastic collar in its place (see photo below). A necessary and additional fix is to remove or slide the rubber/plastic insulating sheath from the connector plug as it was quite inflexible, adding to the tender ride issues.

However, as it is becoming more widely known now, the drivers are mostly, if not all, out of gauge and require correction. That's the next part of the fun....

And bonus shots of my dusty and hair covered 750...

In other news, I now have an ALF body to finish, power etc. I know what the obvious answers are here but I like making things difficult for myself... stay tuned.

 

Parts, pieces...

Oh man, where do I begin?

I have so many projects to do it's not funny and I keep finding extra things to do (if you understand star signs and know mine, this makes perfect sense).

I was in a Junction Models over Easter chasing some detail parts and the latest Australian Railways Illustrated magazine and I stumbled across some need little parts I'm going to try to fit to my TrainOrama 930s and 44s.

These...

Hopefully they're not too hard to fit. At the end of the day the LED headlight upgrade might be the best option. Let's see what happens.

Introductions...

Hi there,

My name is Joshua and this is a blog that will be dedicated mainly to my own HO scale model trains, primarily South Australian late SAR/early AN era but with a fair bit of Victorian and a little of NSWGR and some modern stuff thrown in, too.

As a motivation to myself - and hopefully to others - I thought I'd start this blog to demonstrate any works in progress, any new ideas and new acquisitions but also to track my work.

Please stick around and have a look as the blog progresses and please feel free to provide comments, suggestions etc.

Cheers!