Quote from: Moonglum on Yesterday at 03:26:04 PM@EtchedPixels , has your kit built J63 featured somewhere else - it looks familiar?

Tim

I may have posted it somewhere ages ago - I don't remember.

Quote from: Firstone18 on Yesterday at 03:18:58 PMWould Hornby Minitrix count as Ancient?
Can someone suggest a date/year after which this description would not be applicable please.
Cheers!

The relationship with Hornby ran from around 1973 to early 80s I think.  There were Minitrix British models before and after the period when Hornby was involved. 

There is a clue with the boxes, as the Hornby period models have red/yellow labels and box lids with "Hornby" in the branding   , whist they are green/yellow labels before and after. 

Do they count as ancient?  Well  the chassis for the class 27, Warship (older chassis version), Britannia, Ivatts, and the dock tank go back to the late 60s.   I think the 9F was a little later.  All based on German loco chassis  The class 47, Flying Scotsman and A4 models are later still, pretty sure those later  steamers came along post Hornby.

This was the chassis used for the class 27. (this set dates from around 1968).



The Warships used these chassis (older above and later version underneath)


.. and the 9F used this chassis

Quote from: mikepaling on Yesterday at 03:26:22 PM

Quote from: PLD on Yesterday at 02:54:17 PMWhat makes you believe the two marked are incorrect? As far as can be seen from the heads, they are correct for Poole made examples...  (Some Later Chinese produced batches had cross-heads)
As Alan says, any of the regular Farish Spares suppliers is likely to carry them.

Hi Alan ... well for a start the larger Csk headed sticks up as it is too big for the hole it goes in unlike the one next to it which is obviously a cheeshead screw seating in a counterbored hole.

Thanks for the tip about Farish Spares. I will see what they say,
Cheers Mike

dont go undoing the small screw "correct cheese head screw" unless you are familiar with these farish chassies--or you will wonder why the loco wont work anymore

Quote from: PLD on Yesterday at 02:54:17 PMWhat makes you believe the two marked are incorrect? As far as can be seen from the heads, they are correct for Poole made examples...  (Some Later Chinese produced batches had cross-heads)
As Alan says, any of the regular Farish Spares suppliers is likely to carry them.

Hi Alan ... well for a start the larger Csk headed sticks up as it is too big for the hole it goes in unlike the one next to it which is obviously a cheeshead screw seating in a counterbored hole.

Thanks for the tip about Farish Spares. I will see what they say,
Cheers Mike

@EtchedPixels , has your kit built J63 featured somewhere else - it looks familiar?

Tim

Would Hornby Minitrix count as Ancient?
Can someone suggest a date/year after which this description would not be applicable please.
Cheers!

What makes you believe the two marked are incorrect? As far as can be seen from the heads, they are correct for Poole made examples...  (Some Later Chinese produced batches had cross-heads)
As Alan says, any of the regular Farish Spares suppliers is likely to carry them.

Quote from: mikepaling on Yesterday at 01:29:35 PMHi ...
I recently purchased a 2nd hand N Gauge Farish Jinty Loco and I have spotted some incorrect and missing screws on the chassis. I am not sure what sizes they are or what type of thread they have.
Does anybody know what the correct screws are on my attached image of the bottom of my Jinty?

Where I can find and purchase the correct screws to replace the missing and incorrect screws?

Thanks in advance ... Mike

They are all standard screws but you'll probably not find them at screwfix. Some of the N gauge spare/repair sites will carry them and I'd bet https://www.farishnspares.co.uk will be able to tell you which you need to order.

Hi ...
I recently purchased a 2nd hand N Gauge Farish Jinty Loco and I have spotted some incorrect and missing screws on the chassis. I am not sure what sizes they are or what type of thread they have.
Does anybody know what the correct screws are on my attached image of the bottom of my Jinty?

Where I can find and purchase the correct screws to replace the missing and incorrect screws?

Thanks in advance ... Mike

Seems we ought to create a new thread for UK SPAM (Society for the Preservation of Ancient Models)[1] rather than clog @trainwaiting's threads up.

This morning's SPAM railtour, hauled by a an old kit built J63 and the original generation Minitrix dock tank (both using the same mninitrix chassis design) plus a couple of early Farish generic four wheelers.



[1] Not Dolly Parton