Wheel flange advice

[A Train, in a Garage In S]

Hi everyone

Having recently acquired some Hornby Railway rolling stock, from past experience, I know that the diameters of the wheel flanges are larger than more modern stock. I am aware that some wheel sets on carriages and trucks can be replaced with suitable, smaller diameter flanged units. However, can any members offer advice when it comes to loco driving wheel flanges. 

Note to admin: I have been spending time searching the forum for such information. If you wish have some suitable directions or appropriate links, these would be gratefully appreciated. 

Gary

[96RAF]

Admin doesn’t usually read and respond to forum questions.

Less is more when using the forum search.

I used ‘flanges’ as the search term and got 2 hits on post Title, which may be exactly what you are looking for and 50 odd pages of hits when the search is expanded to post Content..

[Going Spare]

To be able to advise upon the availability of loco driving wheels with finer flanges and the complexity of making the change, it will be necessary to know exactly which models you have (by catalogue R-number if possible).

[Chrissaf]

Wasn't hard to find some existing threads based upon similar topic of discussion.....the secret to finding information on the Hornby forum is described in TIP 10 in my 'How to get the best from this forum'  TIPs page.

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https://www.hornby.com/uk-en/forum/which-new-wheels-for-triang-models/?p=1

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https://www.hornby.com/uk-en/forum/old-tri-ang-wheels/

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https://www.hornby.com/uk-en/forum/triang/hornby/?p=1

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https://www.hornby.com/uk-en/forum/main-loco-wheels/?p=1/

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https://www.hornby.com/uk-en/forum/wheel-set-changing/

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[A Train, in a Garage In S]

As ever Chrissaf, I am grateful to your reply and assistance. 

Gary

[A Train, in a Garage In S]

To be able to advise upon the availability of loco driving wheels with finer flanges and the complexity of making the change, it will be necessary to know exactly which models you have (by catalogue R-number if possible).

Thank you for your comment and assistance. I'll check model numbers. 

Gary

[ColinB]

If you are using Peco code 100 track or the Hornby equivalent and your locos are not earlier than the 1980's then you don't really have an issue, Peco haven't really changed their track architechture since then. On some of my early 80's Pacific locos I did change the front bogie wheels as they are a bit finer, but the old ones worked ok. It is the early Triang loco wheels that seem to be the biggest issue. If you are running Peco code 75 then you do have an issue. The thing that you do have to worry about though, is the back to back wheel spacing, on early locos it is really easy for it to be wrong as it is easier to move the wheels on the axle.