Sent in from Jolon Sweeny
Starting with the Silverfern body. I looked at the nose and removed about 10mm back to the head-stock mounted 2 plastic blocks that are 7mm x 4mm by the baggage doors, drilled 2 mounting holes for screws to hold the chassis. I drilled holes in the chassis for the screws. Mounting blocks are sunken into body by 3.5mm, so that the chassis sits in the body, and this makes the trucks just clear and turn. Mounting block on top of SD7-9 weight is 8mm long - this rests on the inside of the roof. Chassis is 75mm long x 15mm wide which sits comfortably into the body, as in photo. Bearings were fitted flush into the trucks. Fitted one first, and super glued, then fitted second loosely and spun freely to see that the depth was correct. Once correct, removed wheel, super glued in and then fitted wheel again to check smooth running. Have used a draw bar between carriages, but could use standard couplers if you wanted. Height of mounting block for trucks, used 2 pieces of thin plastic to get to correct height. Once correct height was established, super glued them to top of truck and screwed onto body. Could use small washers instead. When you receive the body, chop out the first 2 supports from the drive end for chassis to fit in, and remove the 4 internal supports as well, so that chassis fits snug with block on top of weight.
part two silver fern nz120 couplers and air-hoses fitted
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