For the last few weeks I’ve been going to a model railway 'gathering of friends' (because insurance will get involved if we call ourselves a club, and it's not worth the hassle). Overall there is about 20 people 'involved' but only about 5 turn up every week, all together there’s 3 narrow gauge enthusiasts including myself, I approached one of them in his shop for advice/help with Livingston Thompson's chassis, after a disassembly to clean, I found a problem with a piece of the bogies that hold the cylinders in place, and the drive shafts.
The problem with the bogies is that the glue the previous owner used has 'dissolved' through the plastic, and there’s not much that holds the cylinders in place. So he confirmed my worst fears, unless I unexpectedly wanted a pole-vaulting fairlie, I needed to replace them. The problem with the shafts is that they broke when I touched them.
Coincidentally as we where talking about the bogies the third narrow gauge enthusiast walked in, and said he has a box of Bachmann GP50 bits he has got spare (luckily he has about 5 FR Fairlies). He said he will have a dig around for them, and might assemble the chassis for me :D)
Some people don't think that having others do your modeling for you is rite, I agree and disagree. If anyone that asks 'how did you do that' is answered with 'I didn't someone did it for me' I think it should be ok, only if you don't take credit, and mention any business (like I do in a slide show of the FRs history behind my layout).
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