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PostPosted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 7:32 pm    Post subject: Annoying replacement trucks Reply with quote
Thought I'd replace some rapido trucks with microtrains versions only to find that the Bachmann wagons have a larger locating pin thingy and they don't fit!
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 8:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
How much larger?
Wouldn't it help to ream out the hole in the truck until it fits?
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 8:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Just a little larger. I had thought of reaming them out, but as the spring design is slightly different to the Bachmann trucks and that the next wagons I get will probably be Atlas* ones, I think I'll leave them for now.

*Don't usually know the make till they drop through my letterbox.
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:38 pm    Post subject: Re: Annoying replacement trucks Reply with quote
poliss wrote:
Thought I'd replace some rapido trucks with microtrains versions only to find that the Bachmann wagons have a larger locating pin thingy and they don't fit!


What  wagons are you trying to  fit  them to  Poliss     some Bachmann  are  screws holding  the trucks  in  .........  is it a case of the pin is  too  large  to go through  the  truck  hole   ?
If  so   i   use a round  file  twisting anticlockwise   until  its a  good fit  
Anticlockwise as   the file doesnt bite too  much  but  is  working   more  gradually.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 12:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yes, it's the Bachmann screw type.


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