{"id":931,"date":"2023-02-13T23:14:05","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T23:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/?p=931"},"modified":"2024-05-06T14:26:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T14:26:40","slug":"rebuilding-the-shay-part-8-bogies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/rebuilding-the-shay-part-8-bogies","title":{"rendered":"Rebuilding the Shay (part 8) – bogies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s been a few months since I did anything with the Shay<\/a> – life is like that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I believe that the wheels of this locomotive were originally designed for G-scale. I say this with reasonable confidence because the flanges are too big, and they bump on the sleepers on 16mm Peco track. Here is one of the bogies, seen from underneath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I tried a few times to get the bogies apart. Unfortunately, the gears are a tight fit on the axles and won’t come off. Also unfortunately, the bogies are soldered together, and I didn’t want to have to rebuild them, So I investigated how I might reduce the flanges whilst the wheels remained in the bogies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I made a wooden jig to hold the bogie, and attached various bits to a board to support my cordless drill and the jig. There is also another piece of wood that holds the trigger on the drill. Using the driveshaft and gears seemed like a logical thing to do, but when I held the file against the flange to wear it down a bit, I quickly realised that this was putting un-necessary stress on both the universal joint and on the gears. The grub screws also kept coming loose. <\/p>\n\n\n\n