O and K JHA hoppers from Dapol

Trainfish · January 27, 2023, 08:38:30 PM

Good news unless you have a rake of 20. It means I have to buy 3 packs and use just 1 from the 3rd pack

I suppose the others/spares could be used in the future on something else.

Skyline2uk · January 27, 2023, 09:02:17 PM

Quote from: Trainfish on January 27, 2023, 08:38:30 PM
Good news unless you have a rake of 20. It means I have to buy 3 packs and use just 1 from the 3rd pack

I suppose the others/spares could be used in the future on something else.

Is that because you have 2 outers plus 18 inners? As such the included pair of couplings for the outers are surplus in two packs John?

Skyline2uk

Trainfish · January 27, 2023, 09:41:18 PM

Indeed they are surplus. I will be able to use them elsewhere though as they look like standard magnetic couplers. I was going to send an email to WWW (it's already written and in my outbox) to see if they would swap them out but I may just order 3 packs anyway. As I say, I should be able to use the spares somewhere else as basically they look like ultra short magnetic couplers.

Graham · January 28, 2023, 01:07:17 AM

another alternative would be to have the rake as 2 sets of 10, which would solve the issue of buying a 3rd pack.

Just a thought!

Trainfish · January 28, 2023, 12:51:40 PM

With a big gap in the middle with no buffers?

I'll order 3

steadfast · January 28, 2023, 04:31:47 PM

NGS members may be interested my article about the real things and how they're operated is in the current journal, 1/23.

Jo

Graham · January 28, 2023, 10:30:57 PM

Will have a look once the journal finds its way down under.

geoffc · June 13, 2023, 10:27:57 AM

Quote from: Trainfish on January 28, 2023, 12:51:40 PM
With a big gap in the middle with no buffers? I'll order 3

Many thanks to @ Trainfish for letting me have 3 pairs of his surplus inner couplings free of charge

Geoff

Brian-1c · June 29, 2023, 08:37:21 PM

There is a lot of very good and useful here. However, I cannot see anywhere how to remove the bogies.

I am sure holding a wagon in one hand, whilst gently shaking it, will not cause the bogie to drop into my other hand.

Does the bogie simply pull out of the chassis, or does it need to be prised away with a tool ? Or is there some dismantling first, that I should know about ?

Any help with this will be appreciated.

geoffc · June 29, 2023, 08:42:45 PM

The bogies just pull out, do not insert anything between them and the chassis to lever them out, you may damage the spring for the coupling.
Don't ask how I know that! What are you trying to do as I have stripped several to replace the coupling arms and may be able to help you?

Geoff

Brian-1c · June 29, 2023, 08:57:21 PM

Thank you.

I just want put the washers in between the chassis and the bogies, as has been described here earlier.

Trainfish · June 29, 2023, 09:16:37 PM

They are probably the easiest bogies I have ever pulled out. No tools required and they come out very very easily.

Skyline2uk · June 29, 2023, 10:23:22 PM

Quote from: Trainfish on June 29, 2023, 09:16:37 PM
They are probably the easiest bogies I have ever pulled out. No tools required and they come out very very easily.

What he said, plus be careful where you hold the body as those tiny yellow anchor points love to come off.

Don't want to be glueing anymore of those on...

Skyline2uk