{"id":120,"date":"2009-04-18T12:26:02","date_gmt":"2009-04-18T12:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/festiveroad.net\/wealden2mmblog\/?p=120"},"modified":"2009-04-18T12:36:54","modified_gmt":"2009-04-18T12:36:54","slug":"dapol-terrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/festiveroad.net\/wealden2mmblog\/archives\/120","title":{"rendered":"Dapol Terrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up one of the lovely new Terriers which Dapol have just released and I am contemplating the best way to convert it to 9.42mm gauge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/festiveroad.net\/wealden2mmblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/terrier01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-121\" title=\"terrier01\" src=\"http:\/\/festiveroad.net\/wealden2mmblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/terrier01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/festiveroad.net\/wealden2mmblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/terrier01.jpg 800w, https:\/\/festiveroad.net\/wealden2mmblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/terrier01-300x147.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you can see from the above I have already dismantled it.\u00a0 The resistor block will be discarded and a DCX74z chip put in its place.<\/p>\n<p>Nigel has kindly offered to do some flange reduction at our next meeting though there doesn&#8217;t appear to be much that could be removed.\u00a0 The wheels look pretty close to the 2mm standard (apart from the tyre width which is far too thick) and I am wondering whether pushing them out to 9.42mm gauge would be sufficient.<\/p>\n<p>At present the wheels do not want to drop out of the frames &#8211; presumably the gears are keeping them in place? I wonder what the best method for adjusting the back to back would be?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/festiveroad.net\/wealden2mmblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/terrier02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-122\" title=\"terrier02\" src=\"http:\/\/festiveroad.net\/wealden2mmblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/terrier02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/festiveroad.net\/wealden2mmblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/terrier02.jpg 800w, https:\/\/festiveroad.net\/wealden2mmblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/terrier02-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The chunky plastic brake rods are going to foul the wheels when re-gauged and will probably be sliced off to be replaced with brass strip.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/festiveroad.net\/wealden2mmblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/terrier03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-126\" title=\"terrier03\" src=\"http:\/\/festiveroad.net\/wealden2mmblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/terrier03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/festiveroad.net\/wealden2mmblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/terrier03.jpg 800w, https:\/\/festiveroad.net\/wealden2mmblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/terrier03-300x127.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up one of the lovely new Terriers which Dapol have just released and I am contemplating the best way to convert it to 9.42mm gauge. As you can see from the above I have already dismantled it.\u00a0 The resistor block will be discarded and a DCX74z chip put in its place. Nigel has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wealdenareagroup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/festiveroad.net\/wealden2mmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/festiveroad.net\/wealden2mmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/festiveroad.net\/wealden2mmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/festiveroad.net\/wealden2mmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/festiveroad.net\/wealden2mmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/festiveroad.net\/wealden2mmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"https:\/\/festiveroad.net\/wealden2mmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/festiveroad.net\/wealden2mmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/festiveroad.net\/wealden2mmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/festiveroad.net\/wealden2mmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}