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Probably, 2 foot was a common gauge for small rolling stock. In the day you could buy pre-made track sets and switches to put together like an oversized model train set! There's a few old industrial wagons out at waikino just sitting on "display" that are begging to be restored and run on the tiny mainline
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Note to self - the original motor did 2200 rpm flat tack. Thanks british narrow gauge foamers
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You have to love the internet, how else could you find the reduction ratio of the final drive of an obscure british mining locomotive in 2 hours from the comfort of the couch. Ratio is 31:1. Now I just have to measure wheel diameter and I should be able to figure out necessary RPM for 3.1mph/5kph, which is plenty for what it is. In its original form this would pull 16.5 ton on the flat, down to 3.7 ton on a 1:50 grade. I'm hoping to achieve at least 300kg towed at 1:20 or greater, the line at waikino is very steep..
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What a brilliant watch, mine will of course be much wetter, crudely shored & poorly lit
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Yeah absolutely, though I thought i'd try to find out for idle planning purposes without having to put it on blocks haha. Some barry on one of the narrow gauge pages reckons he has a final drive in pieces and will count the teeth for me, its just a single thread worm drive. Have been looking into 48v forklift motors, pretty cheap secondhand and they look similarly sized to the original motor.
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So as was bound to happen eventually in my terminal spiral of railway barrydom, I have scrounged myself a tiny 2 foot gauge locomotive. It is the same wheelbase (and length with the operator stand folded up) as a minecart, so it can be put in a liftshaft in my future illegal underground goldmine. Its a "battery electric vehicle - winstone & rogers model 5" and could have been built anywhere from 1937-1982. It has been stripped of all its electrical gear, and has nothing but the final drive left. The final drive is a worm gear reduction box of unknown ratio. I intend to get it running and stopping, using either battery electric (forklift?) gear or petrol hydraulic. I would rather electric just for the silent operation aside from the flanges screaming and joints thudding at a thundering 3.1mph..
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Not me, but i'm fairly sure it was mandatory at the time for each town to have one vehicle with "SLAYER" sprayed onto it in a local park by obnoxious baked teenagers at midnight
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Added some more decals and cleared over them, I was a bit unsure about the slayer but it hearkens back to a period where this was hamiltons official "slayer van"
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Decals are a bit small, but far better than suffering the enduring shame of having a panelvan with zero barbarian content
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So I know many of you have been losing sleep, wondering "whatever happened to that british pos van". Well wonder no more, for an update is forthcoming. I felt sorry for the van, forlornly keeping the mower company in the shed, so dragged it out and gave it some tlc, consisting of a good thorough greasing, and bending the fuel pickup down as the tank had imploded somewhat in the past and left it high & dry when 10L remained in the tank. I then painted it (again) in the driveway, this time in Leyland "black tulip", with some aliexpress purple pearl thrown in for good measure. As usual I could only be bothered removing a couple of dents. The back doors are pretty rough, having been hit and repaired twice that I know of, so slapped some stickers on there to hide all the ripples! I'll take it in for a wof when I can be bothered, should be pretty good (for a Leyland product)
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Have been driving this fine automobile daily just for a change, has been pretty neat. important upgrades such as a new radiator cap and hatch struts have been performed - I was a bit sad to remove the o.g hatch struts, while useless they did have "indecipherable Cyrillic CCCP" on them which is always a redeeming feature. Am yet to figure out how to turn on the headlight wiper/washers. Found another Lada in the wild today, no owner nearby but if I see it/them in future i'll let them know I have 2 rattlecans of mixed paint for their car!
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Cheers gents, that would explain the bits of steel tube in the bolt-holes, to overcome a previous owners lack of shouldered bolts! will get some hub-rings also
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@azzurro & @Sunbeam can I please beg some wheel info? I have a set of 13"x6" +30 wards in 4x98 I wish to fit to my lada, I have test fitted one and can see I will need longer wheelbolts. what I am concerned about is the hub fitting - the lada steel wheels have a centrebore of roughly 58mm and the wards are roughly 65, they do conveniently have the little holes for the mounting tabs. Will I need a hub ring/spigot ring or is it not so important on these cars? Chur. Also I ordered some bits from lada moscow on the 14/8 which turned up today and look good, I thought prices & shipping were pretty reasonable (got hatch struts, pair of rear wheel cylinders, front pads & a radiator cap) Though sending cc deets to russia was inherently scary haha