Good question Chris


why do farish n gauge wheels come in packs of ten   

                 
Graham Farish / Bachmann Europe replacement wheelsets and axles come in packs of ten primarily to match standard British bogie coach configurations (two bogies with two axles each equals four wheels per coach, meaning a pack of 10 services two and a half coaches or up to 10 individual two-axle wagons) while offering an economical bulk quantity for layout maintenance.


I wonder that British bogie passenger coaches typically use two bogies per carriage, with each bogie holding two wheel axles (4 axles per coach).

A pack of 10 axles conveniently services a small formation of 2 full coaches (8 axles) with 2 spare axles left over for the workbench.



Buying individual wheelsets is inefficient for packaging, shipping, and manufacturing? An argument farish may have

 A set of 10 hits a cost-effective price point for Graham Farish N Gauge

I agree 12 would make sense or 8 as you suggest. Or multiples thereof

Be interested in others' opinions

... do Farish sell their coach wheels in packs of 10? Unless you model exclusively 4-wheel coaching stock you are always going to have two axles left over. Packs of 8 or 12 would make more sense.

Is it just me?

Cheers, 

Chris

PS. I've just realised you need 10 for LNER quad-arts, but that's still a bit niche.

Just been listening to the rollingstones' foreign tongues ... featuring, among others, Steve Winwood on several of the tracks and Paul McCartney on bass on one track.
Typical Stones' sound - recognisable riffs, etc. Good continuation of their previous blues album. They even have a posthumous drum track from Charlie Watts!
Haven't watched the blue ray version yet though ...

Trying to renew my driving licence, problems:-
I don't have a mobile phone
The app instead of using mobile phone refuses to download to Windows 7

WE Luddites should rebel against this discrimination!!!!!!!!!

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@port perran Hi Martin. They are both Farish CCTs. One is 374-785 and the other is 374-641

Ah....thank you. I haven't got any in that livery........hmmmmm?

I do so love spending other people's money  

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@port perran Hi Martin. They are both Farish CCTs. One is 374-785 and the other is 374-641

Ah....thank you. I haven't got any in that livery........hmmmmm?

I agree with much of what Steven says despite maybe being one of the most flippant members. I don't know much technical stuff so tend to sit back and learn rather than proffer incorrect advice. It has to be remembered, though, we have just over 10,000 members and, to state the obvious, we are all different. OK, it's only a very small hard core who post regularly and I'd suggest if an OP doesn't understand the reply they get in touch with that responder via PM to avoid being further confused.
The nearest I've come to this happy community is the Kawasaki Owners forum but the Qashqai one is not good at all

I agree, but at least it's not as bad as car forums where they draw blood and threaten to off their dog.

Quote from: port perran on Today at 09:29:15 AMWhat are the first and third vehicles behind the Clayton please?

@port perran Hi Martin. They are both Farish CCTs. One is 374-785 and the other is 374-641

I tried watching this last night with the sound off as SWMBO was watching telly. Some interesting auto-generated caption!
All very interesting to see what is considered modern, but I think the prices are getting too high for me.
I hope this will encourage more under 50s modellers to join our hobby.
Cheers