Clunky gets a spannering & Fretwork Rail out on track maintenance - 7 1/4 Narrow Gauge Railway
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- We start the video joining Fretwork Rail completing some summer track maintenance. The hot sun causes the track to expand and this movement in the rail can cause the sleepers in some locations to twist on the rail. We have fitted expansion joints around the line so hopefully this is a problem of the past.
Clunky also has a dramatic failure which leads to a strip down in the workshop.
See you guys soon!
looking forward to it 🙂
Brilliant!!!
Awesome ... Time for me to up-scale from G gauge I think !!
Great video. Like me.
So what was the fundamental problem with Clunky which caused the wheels to lock up?
When Clunky first joined the line it was noted the motion around the connecting rods wasn’t quite right, we fitted a new bearing that was actually missing, this did improve the running somewhat, however at a particular rotating point the wheels were tight after fitting the bearing. We hoped it would bed itself in. Unfortunately it didn’t really ‘bed in’ and this then led to the pressure being put on the wheels connecting to the axels, only being kept in position by grub screws, one had worked loose and eventually must have fell out and caught the connecting rod whilst in operation leading to all the wheels locking up and not rotating in turn. After a strip down on the work bench we found the horn guides supporting the centre wheel set weren’t quite in the right position. It’s an old, simple freelance loco, with some careful filing we managed to correct the horn guides and this allowed the correct spacing for the wheels and connecting rods to rotate freely, no more tight spots, fingers crossed this is an issue of the past. Thankfully it’s a very simple loco and nothing were too precious about when it comes to putting right. We like our engines and rolling stock to have the character of a used railway rather than museum piece, but of course prefer them to run correctly! Thanks for watching and commenting on the video, hope you enjoy our future uploads!
@@somersetnarrowgauge714 Fantastic bit of diagnostic/troubleshooting! Love Clunky. Hope to buy a similar 7 1/4" gauge electric 0-6-0 loco here in the States in a year to so.
Build a lot of smaller scale locomotive chassis'... Side rod hole spacing to axle spacing has to be dead on or you'll have binding. Same with quartering. All the drivers have to be quartered nearly exactly or exactly the same.
Nice little railway... Hoping to do something like this in the next few years. Cheers from the USA.
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