No.27 All Steamed Up - repairing Bachmann coach glazing
The sun has come out and the garden beckons. With the sunshine we can also see which of our double glazed units have failed. Upstairs the sudden warmth is likely to be responsible for the spontaneous failure of the glazing in one of my Bachmann Mark One coaches: This need not be a major problem. Many of us will be familiar with the ‘stress test‘ applied to items sent by post and will have received coaches with displaced glazing. I must have been inside over half a dozen Bachmann coaches, the first being a Restaurant Car Unclassified where some of the tables had been glued at a jaunty angle and were shouting out to be repositioned. First you need a soft cloth to protect the roof of the coach. With the coach on its roof the two screws holding the bogies are removed. After lifting off the two bogies the Bachmann coupling compensation units can be lifted out, coupling end first. This way the retaining spring at the oppo...