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Being someone who models the East Anglian area I don’t have any panniers of any variety but I have converted a couple of Accurascale buckjumpers to EM. Yes, I did have to bush the axles so a 2mm axle fitted a 1/8” wheel centre but that seems to work OK (using a GW wheel press). Also the coupling rods are one piece and for a loco with as short a wheelbase as the buck that really isn’t an issue. I know of others who have also converted bucks to EM and have used the Gibson universal coupling rods to get a more flexible chassis and that also worked. Nigel

Thanks. That Ultrascale conversion confirms that the Accurascale coupling rods are one-piece and not articulated. So the chassis is not compensated or sprung. It will not cope with my awful trackwork or, I suspect, in most modellers’ yards. Despite temptation, I am resisting buying one as it will turn out to be an expensive impractical mistake. Beautiful but ultimately poorly engineered. I will stick with my old Bachmann pannier.

Very nice – I’m always interested in other peoples solutions to the space problem.

Oh dear! I recently gave up on a 64xx chassis kit from High Level, so you are not alone! In my case it is a compensated affair. Yours should be more straightforward, being rigid. I too thought I had produced a square chassis and at one point this was true with the front and rear spacers fixed. I think things went downhill when I then inserted 2 intermediate spacers. For whatever reason, one spacer ended up wider than the rest after assembly. I suspect that soldering bits onto or near the spacers using a Resistance Soldering Unit may have distorted the chassis without me realising. The result was a noticeable banana! To compound the axle alignment error, I also had trouble getting the HL hornblock assemblies to lie flat against the frames; not relevant to your problem. I will start again! You state your chassis is square. Did you use a jig or tapered axles to check that the axles through the frames match the coupling rods? This is fairly fundamental for getting a chassis to run smoothly. A chassis need not be precisely square so long as the axle centres match the coupling rod hole centres. The HL kits are precisely etched so the frames and coupling rod centres match. Errors that can cause misalignment on assembly are: 1. The spacers are not square to the frames. This may not be fatal but if visible is likely to be so. 2. The axle bushes are not centred in the frame holes. The holes should be reamed out, not drilled for the bushes to fit; they must be a reasonably tight fit in

John Have you seen this? Commission Conversions Not much detail sadly but it is their business. Perhaps they are planning a conversion pack. John Wragg may have some detail re Alan Gibson

I’ve had this before more than once, most recently from the proprietor of 52F models. Not from him of course, but it’s common for a hacker or bot or whatever it is to be able to send messages to people in that person’s contacts or perhaps on a distribution list. I really don’t think it’s a problem for the recipient, as long as you don’t do what it asks if course!

Thank you John. Am still a bit puzzled as to how the hacker got hold of my email address; I have never corresponded with Mike Spearing. Hopefully this is a one-off. Also thank to Steve for taking the trouble to respond.

Hello everyone, Just to reiterate John Wraggs’ comment that our website and email list has not been hacked. Data there is secure and compliant with legal requirements. The issue of dodgy emails asking for help, money, gifts, or just simply confirmation that the email account still works, is down to hackers and covers all sorts of nefarious reasons – and we’ve all received most of them over the years! The hacking tends mostly to be prevalent on the big ‘common or garden’ email providers, like yahoo, btinternet, hotmail, etc., EMGS officers all have fredbloggsxx @emgs.org addresses which are on a much more secure server than any of the above, and are least likely to be hacked (we believe – fingers crossed). We encourage EMGS Officers use these for all formal EMGS business, however from time to time personal email addresses do get used by officers for purely practical access reasons (Remember we are only ‘human’ at the end of the day!). The onus is on everybody, everywhere, to be mindful themselves of receiving potential dodgy emails and ignore them, but again we are all only human and can sometimes be easily duped! Our membership secretary Michael Spearing has since changed his personal email address, should his previous one have been compromised in some way, which led to the spurious ones. Members wishing to contact the Membership Secretary are encouraged to use membership@emgs.org Regards Steve Flint EMGS Chairman

Hi Gavin, My apologies I have just come across your response to my advert, which I completely forgot about. yes they are available. contact me at alan.featonby@gmail.com if you are still interested. best regards Alan

Thanks for the update Mike. I hope that it didn’t cause too mny problems.

Seems to have worked

Testing a bug fix for the critical error