A tender for 62716

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62716
GER J70 0-6-0T Tram
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A tender for 62716

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Following on from this thread:

https://www.lner.info/forums/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=11993

I decided to use a Bachmann O1 tender body to put on the Hornby chassis. Very much a case of “See how it goes and hope it works”!

With the wheels and electrical bits removed from the tender the first steps were to remove the rear and front steps (and surrounding metal) to enable a gradual first fit of the body.
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Sensing that it might just work all right after all, more drastic surgery took me well beyond the point of no return:
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Re: A tender for 62716

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Seems I can only add 4 photos per post?
A lot of metal had to be cut away from above the axle-boxes.
A lot of metal had to be cut away from above the axle-boxes.
In contrast the tender body itself needed only slight modification:
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I was acutely aware of not leaving the tender chassis too weak and therefore had to settle for leaving the buffers approximately 0.5 mm too high.
This view shows the comparison with a Bachmann K3 tender.
This view shows the comparison with a Bachmann K3 tender.
The Hornby GS tender frames could not be shortened much at the front and protrude a couple of mm under the tender footplate. I offset this to a small degree by fashioning a new tender coupling link:
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Re: A tender for 62716

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The plated coal rails were effected by gluing thin plastic strips to the top of the tender.
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Then I came to apply mixed traffic lining to the tender and found that the transfers I had bought many years ago were completely inseparable from their backing sheet.

I am currently awaiting delivery of a new sheet from Modelmaster (and who assures me his transfers will last 40 to 50 years!).
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