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topic: 3585What gauge ?
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posted: 19 Dec 2019 18:00

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Hayfield
 
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I bought this scratch built 4mm scale 43xx loco from eBay quite some years ago, stated as EM gauge. Seems to be scratch built, very nicely made but lacking some finer details. It had no tender and as can be seen never intended to be motorised. It seems to have a strange gauge
Back to back 17.3 mm (21.47 mm outer) looks to be about 18.4 (or more) gauge)
Wheel width 1.98 mm
diameter 22.86 over tyres
23.92 over flanges

the chassis is 15.88 mm wide

Perhaps built just as a scale model, it has non insulated wheels and no cut out for a motor
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posted: 19 Dec 2019 18:40

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Rob Manchester
 
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Hi John,

Sounds like an attempt at P4 to me. The wheel flanges are rather fine for much else and the wheel width also suggests P4.

Maybe the builder was ahead of his/her time and intended it to be remote controlled and tender driven running on Martin's 3D printed track :)

Rob


posted: 20 Dec 2019 09:26

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Hayfield
 
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I could be wrong, but I think it was intended to be a scratch built static scale model. Given there is both no provision for a motor in the body or any pickups I assume motorising it was not in the plan

If it ever had a tender I guess someone along the line concerted it to a known gauge perhaps even with insulated wheels



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