Chrissaf Posted September 14, 2020 Share Posted September 14, 2020 Hican anyone tell me what screws and threads hornby used on the G100 live steam train?I think they maybe BA but not sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Go_West Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 Hi colroythe thread size for most of the very small screw is 1.2mm hope that helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Going Spare Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 I bow to Gowest's immense experience with live-steam and apologise for introducing slight doubt but the Rocket having been manufactured in Margate so many years ago, I would have expected BA threads to have been used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Go_West Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 Hi going sparei thought that as the question was live steam trains I thought he was referring to the A4's and A3's I'm not familiar with the Rocket?ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
96RAF Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 The OP talks about the G100 which is the 3-1/2” live steam Rocket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Go_West Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 Then in that case I do not know as I have not worked on aRocket but one of the engineers at Hornby must know try emailing themken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
96RAF Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 Then in that case I do not know as I have not worked on aRocket but one of the engineers at Hornby must know try emailing themken In hand Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Going Spare Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 Except offering advice as to which types of threads would have been generally in use at that time, I very much doubt that there is anyone in the current Hornby who had any dealings with the Rocket at the time of its manufacture 40 years ago or during the relatively short time it was supported. Documentation was very scant but if I remember correctly, a few screws on the loco were also used on 00 models so those would almost certainly have BA threads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Go_West Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 From an engineering point of view BA threads a very similar to metric threads and any one in the larger world of model engineering use BA threads so as you say these started life 40 years ago I would think it more than likely that BA threads were used but maybe Rob can find out.ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 BA screws and nuts can still (or were before COVID19) be obtained from a number of suppliers. Try Google. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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