Wednesday 20 October 2021

LCH Wagon Rescue

Having 12 x O scale LCH coal hoppers, I understood that they had to be reworked, but I was not prepared for what was finally required to achieve a usable model.

Some of the issues are outlined in Vlog #1 but poor material, assembly, and fit were the main issues, with the assembly the worst. This design was never intended to be suitable for a factory assembly as there were no alignment pins for any of the parts and clearly these were a job for a modeller to assemble.

As the die was cast and after a number of false starts, a scheme evolved and is outlined here in more detail for anyone else desperate to try.

The series of photos below outline the materials used and the process used to upgrade the Bergs Hobbies O scale LCH.



NSWGR CCH Coal Wagon


Currently now working on an RSH conversion and will blog on that latter as this will require the manufacture of revised side frames and new end decks and these will be designed to suit the techniques and parts outlined here and in previous blogs.

These at the end are a standoff scale model and any others will generally match the LCH as if the RHS was raised to a higher standard it will amplify their faults, so in the end, the best place to hide a tree is in a forest..!


View the Vlog #2 - click here


The 0.06''x 0.02'' hot folded angles were trimmed to form a clevis



The 0.040'' sq is trimmed back to the hot bent angle. 
Installed at that length to keep fingers away from 
the superglue that was used to fix it as was the angles


Speaker for a Soundtraxx SoundCar Decoder





CCH O Scale





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