graeme king a4 type front for a hornby p2

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graeme king a4 type front for a hornby p2

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Good evening everyone

Can anyone help me in finding how i can purchase a Graeme King A4 type smoke box for a Hornby P2.

I am new to this forum but have been looking in for a long time, many years .

In my pre married days i use to live on the up side of the line from Gospel Oak to Hampstead Heath, seeing the cross - London freights with Hornsey 0-6-0 tanks and wd's often getting a push up the hill by the following Broad Street - Richmond electric, good old days..
All the best

Mick Wildey.

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Hi Mick,

My attention has just been drawn to your message. Those smokeboxes were meant to be available almost 2 years ago but I got sidetracked in rather a big way! I'm back on the job now and I'm just working on the mould for the Earl Marischal front at present, with the A4/Bugatti type of P2 nose to follow. I hope to have something to offer within a few weeks, although demands on my time from my real job are heavy and variable at present. Fingers crossed anyway......

Graeme King
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Hi, not sure if i have done this correctly. I need to contact Graeme King, re his resin conversion to convert the peppercorn A2 into the thompson A2/3
Thanks
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I’m sure this will have been brought to his attention by now, or will be shortly. We will both be at Warley this weekend so I shall check for you.
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Mike Carr wrote: Mon Nov 20, 2017 10:29 pm Hi, not sure if i have done this correctly. I need to contact Graeme King, re his resin conversion to convert the peppercorn A2 into the thompson A2/3
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Mike
Hi Mike,

If you post a few more entries on the LNER forum you'll acquire the ability to send and receive private messages too, then we can communicate properly. It's highly inadvisable to post e-mail address in this widely accessible part of the forum unless you want to be inundated with spam, so I wouldn't suggest that short cut to easier communication. I'm afraid it's no use me giving you my phone number as I don't have enough hours in the day to keep answering calls, so I largely don't bother! 90% of callers are time wasters from spiv-run call centres anyway....

Thanks for your interest.

Graeme

PS: I'm also "gr.king" on that other railway modelling forum if you find it easier to use the PM system on there.
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Re: graeme king a4 type front for a hornby p2

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Does anyone have any information about whether graeme king still does the resin parts for the a2/2 kitbuild, and if so, what price and is there a website I can buy them or contact him for them.
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Everything in the post above from the man himself still applies, I believe.
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Evening, hopefully this reaches you all well. I've been told this is the place to go, I have a hornby A4 and a common issue is the buffer section coming off. I have stupidly lost it and can't source a replacement anywhere that is in stock, if Mr King sees this I've Ben told you do resin replacements. However if anyone else has any ideas, please let me know.
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If Graeme hasn't got any resin versions .


Peter Spares do one in Brass, personally I would go for a resin version in preference.

https://www.petersspares.com/peters-spa ... buffers.ir
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Re: graeme king a4 type front for a hornby p2

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They're out of stock. Om going to a show in May so maybe might find one there. But I'm not hopeful.
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