Basic tram engine

[cabbage]

My Mamod was built from a kit -when I was living in a flat in Rotterdam.... It has been "Mamodified" several times since then and its current axles are simply lengths of 4mm steel rod. I tapped the ends of it and then tapped the wheels to the same thread. This gave me one end that was "solid".  A couple of dobs of sleeve retaining compound and they have never moved since. The other end was a plain push fit -into which I dripped thin CA. As to quartering I nudged one side down as far it would go and then nudged the other side until it was level and then left it overnight on the side to set solid. A little fiddling with a hand brace and a roll pin squished into the hole through the wheel and axle took around 30 minutes to do. It has been running around happily this way since before I got married (15 years?)

regards

ralph

[John Candy]

Ralph,

Sounds like a very practical solution to an otherwise tricky problem!
Another of your useful "kitchen table" type solutions. 

Wish I had known of it before I sent away my 3 chassis to Lynx Model Works almost 5 years ago.
Your posting prompted me to send them a reminder that I expect them back before I am too old to enjoy them (they have been returned twice as unsatisfactory and have already cost 700GBP).

When is the book (or eBook) "100 Practical Solutions to 100 Tricky Model Engineering Problems" to be published? 

Regards,
John