Good work in getting it back up and running. One thought though is would it not have been better to glue the pickups back where they should have been in the bottom plate which is I guess why the small location pips were there. I think that would make it easier to service the wheels and gears in the future.
Hi Rob, I thought about that, however the wires attached to the pick up strips are very short indeed, you would be trying to get all six pickup arms in place and locate the bottom plate with around 1 cm of movement. Like I did it you can now remove the base for servicing easily with pickups safely in place :)
I wonder if your friend dropped the locomotive and the cover plate popped off. Then he had problems getting the contact strips back in place. Also, I wonder if any modelers of Irish railways regauge their track and equipment to the correct Irish track gauge?
hi Mike hope you are well? yes for the money we pay for models today you expect the model to have no issues but we seem to get alot of issues great fix keep safe arp
Mike . Here is a link to a similar design of locomotive for the Australian V/Line railway system. But in HO and from a different manufacturer. ruclips.net/video/PIqrAo_6-3c/видео.html Both prototypes are EMD designs and both mainly run on the Irish gauge of 1600mm. Uncanny or what?
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Nice looking locomotive and something quite different great video thank you 👍🏻
Thank you very much!
Good work, Mike. Roy.
Cheers Roy
Great job mike, I have a 6 various murphys locos including two 071 series, the latest one's have the issues you pointed out sorted 😀
Thanks for the info!
Good work in getting it back up and running. One thought though is would it not have been better to glue the pickups back where they should have been in the bottom plate which is I guess why the small location pips were there. I think that would make it easier to service the wheels and gears in the future.
Hi Rob, I thought about that, however the wires attached to the pick up strips are very short indeed, you would be trying to get all six pickup arms in place and locate the bottom plate with around 1 cm of movement. Like I did it you can now remove the base for servicing easily with pickups safely in place :)
I wonder if your friend dropped the locomotive and the cover plate popped off. Then he had problems getting the contact strips back in place.
Also, I wonder if any modelers of Irish railways regauge their track and equipment to the correct Irish track gauge?
No other damage, I think it just arrived like this when he bought it. Still runs nice now :)
hi Mike
hope you are well?
yes for the money we pay for models today you expect the model to have no issues but we seem to get alot of issues
great fix
keep safe arp
Cheers Adi, might have been 2nd hand not sure
@@ModelRailwaysUnlimited my mistake
@@AdiPullen not at all Adi, I never said on the video.
Extremely expensive second hand,MM made three in NIR Livery 111,112,&113.
Hi, I expect so, one of 252 made this one
I have 112 it was on loan to Irish Rail and was known affectionately among Irish Rail drivers has King Billy.
@@Whizzy-jx3qe what did they sound like, class 67?
@@ModelRailwaysUnlimited ruclips.net/video/xKPyB3Fveus/видео.html
074 start up in Connolly St Dublin.
Mike . Here is a link to a similar design of locomotive for the Australian V/Line railway system. But in HO and from a different manufacturer.
ruclips.net/video/PIqrAo_6-3c/видео.html
Both prototypes are EMD designs and both mainly run on the Irish gauge of 1600mm.
Uncanny or what?
Hi John, well I never!