No.87 Jointed Coupling Rods and some other issues with Hornby Duke of Gloucester
I was my intention to finish with Duke of Gloucester (DoG) and to move on. First however I would just fit some jointed coupling rods (from a Britannia). It seems that nothing is quite that straight forward with my model and I uncovered some other issues hopefully will not bother too many of you, but just might be of interest to some of you. Hornby R3191 Duke of Gloucester – a rare view in service When first taken out of the box my model was a reluctant runner first crawling and then speeding up and then crawling again. I thought that I had cured this behaviour when I removed the bottom plate and adjusted the pickups. Well this weekend when trying to reverse the loco (on curved track) I was aware of a shower of sparks from beneath the driver’s side of the cab! The picture below was taken when the engine first arrived but I have added the little red arrow to highlight a patch of bare metal – part of the gear mechanism which seems to protrude on one side more than t