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trams where born out of the Ford Boxcab project which is
now defunct. Following an accident with the chassis and
my total inability to create a body shape that I was happy
with the Boxcab was shelved. My youngest son Christian,
3, loves the Thomas books and tv programme and whilst
surfing around the Ride-On-Railways site and Chris
Rennie's Corris Hill site I started to think about
building a Tram loosely based on the J70 of the Wisbech
& Upwell Tramway and the Y6 of the LNER. The basis for the project were the 2 power bogies from the Boxcab project. At the same time I found a quantity of slotted angle in a skip and an offcut of MDF. Now to digress a little: I don't own a lathe other than the Unimat I bought off ebay a few years ago which has seen better days and was subsequently cheap ! I've hankered after a machine capable of proper work for some time and every time one has come up i've not had the spare cash. Or to put it another way i've been unsuccessful in stealing the funds from under the wife's nose despite some very sly antics. For some odd reason she feels that household expenses should take priority. A fellow member of the local club speaks very highly of the Hobbymat and these come up from time to time on ebay at reasonable prices. This would be ideal as with a bit of swearing I could get it into the works van to provide some lunch time entertainment. So what's this got to do with the tram or tram's. Well, I thought that if I make 2 at the same time this would cut down on build time i.e. batch production of parts. Then I could sell one on ebay to fund a lathe. Back to the Tram model. This is basically an 0-4-0 power bogie with some slotted angle bolted crudely on ( the wife says I do everything crudely...) and a piece of MDF bolted onto the top. I already have 2 24volt power controllers because when sourcing one for the Boxcab I found someone who sells refurbished Curtis controllers at a reasonable price. The motor as detailed on the Boxcab page is a Ford radiator fan motor driving through hand drill gears. The side plates that give a tram its distinctive style are made from 4" galvanised trunking lids. My style of engineering is simple for I am a simple person. The pictures show the rolling chassis as yet untested and hopefully a further update will follow shortly. |
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