UK members?

[WrinklyBottomJunction]

Is Gscalecentral mostly a USA platform or do you have UK members?

I’m trying to get Accucraft steam Shay replacement trucks organised for UK owners & wonder if there might be any on here ?
Thanks

 

[PhilP]

Hello.
So you have been a member of the Forum since 2006, but don't know the demographics of the users?

Fair number of us, are UK, or ex-pat..
A very small number, may have an Accucraft Shay.

PhilP

 

[Rhinochugger]

The forum is, indeed, a UK platform, owned and operated from the UK.

There are a few of us with Accucraft Shays, but I'm not aware of anybody looking for replacement trucks. There may be more 3-cylinder Shays that feature on the forum than 2-cylinder versions.

 

[WrinklyBottomJunction]

Hello.
So you have been a member of the Forum since 2006, but don't know the demographics of the users?

Fair number of us, are UK, or ex-pat..
A very small number, may have an Accucraft Shay.

PhilP

Thanks Phil. Didn’t know I had been a member that long also as I model in 16mm narrow gauge I rarely visit here.

The reasoning is purely down to the number of 45 mm Accucraft live steam 2 & 3 cylinder Shay locos that have crumbled away pot metal truck frames and no spares.

I’v been trying to assess numbers interested in joining forces to have a batch made as it looks like the trucks are the same for all the various batches of 2 & 3 cylinder models and then I heard Accucraft USA were thinking about revisiting the gas fired 2 cylinder Shay in the near future plus a quantity of spare trucks, which is really great news for many owners who have disintegrated trucks.

I’m gathering names of any interested owners here in the UK to pass on to Accucraft so we have an idea of quantities. This also covers all the owners over here that have had the trucks modified fir 32mm running.

Kind regards

Vic

 

[maxi-model]

Disintegrating Accucraft geared loco trucks ? Heard about the Bachmann issue with a contaminated batch of mazak affecting some Spectrum Fn3 cars a few years back (I've got one) but Accucraft, pray tell please. Your best bet is contacting Graham Langer at Accucraft UK. For some years all orders for items from the US catalogue have to go through them. Very helpful and very reasonable on prices, given admin, shipping, import tax costs. So, bank on around 1$ to £1 cost equivalence when looking at the US site's shop.

I have been on this site from the get go and its predecessor GSM. They were always populated mainly by Brits. Now we get a much wider range of nationalities here, and may that demographic grow. Fantastic knowledge base here results. Sometimes I reffer to the US site, Large Scale Central, for very specific US prototype and manufacturer info. I have an Accucraft 3 cyl Shay and a Climax. Max

 

[ge_rik]

The forum is, indeed, a UK platform, owned and operated from the UK.

My thoughts exactly. Although quite a few of the railways depicted on here represent US or continental railways, a fair number are actually UK based. As has been said, there are even a few representing UK railways, though some are as far afield as Florida, just to confuse things.

Rik

Rik

 

[Fred2179G]

Disintegrating Accucraft geared loco trucks

I have a 2-cylinder Shay, and I have heard of disintegrating truck frames, but not on the 3-cylinder version. (Which does not mean it isn't happening.)

I did query this when I got mine with Ryan at TripleRServices, who cast Aster parts, and I think his suggestion was to wait until Accucraft provide more spares. There's a thread somewhere . .

 

[tac foley]

I must admit that I'm confused - an easy task, as anybody would tell you. Y'see, my 3C Shay was the very first example sold here in UK, bought from Steve Warrington at a Stoneleigh show back in May of 2007. It gets run most weekends, and will be running again tomorrow, as indeed it did last week.

So I made an especially close examination of the trucks and running gear.

Nope, no obvious sign of disintegratement. And as noted by pal Max above, not connected in any way with the highly disintegrateable Bachmann trucks, either.

Mr Langer should be your next port of call, methinks - talking to him is your best bet, as he is a most affable fellow. Here he is wearing my Canadian family's grandfather's spurs as a great favour to me- on riding boots for the first time since 1918. Both he and my maternal grandfather were in the 6th Dragoon Guards throughout the war. He got to go home, but my g'dad didn't make it.

 

[tac foley]

Thanks Phil. Didn’t know I had been a member that long also as I model in 16mm narrow gauge I rarely visit here.

I bleeve you'd find if you stuck around that most of us here at least dabble in 16mm and 1/20.3 and 7/8th scale as well. I have just four LGB locos, but many thousands of ££££££ of Gauge 1 and all the other scales - I just like trains, me.

Casey Jones here has nothing BUT 16mm on a large layout with public access that he runs.

Stick around, like I said, you might find you like it after all.