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It is my understanding that parkside dundas kits were all designed for brass bearings and romford 12mm wagon wheels (where appropriate). The peco kits apparently now use 12mm gibson wheels which cause me much trouble!! I think the problem is the gibson wheels have plastic wheel centres which are not perfectly round. There is a pronounced wobble in all my peco builds until I replace with markits/romford wheels. The all metal romford wheels are far superior but are more expensive. I also think the gibson axles are marginally shorter than the romfords. This is all from experience and I cant claim to know 100%.
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Everything that has to be told about these vans has been covered in this video. Except for your one question, the axles. In general when you take measurements of the axles of different brands there are differences in the point to point width. Especially on older RTR where no provision was made to regauge to EM axles tended to be shorter, Lima for instance used continental H0 wheels, which were of a too small diameter too. The same may be true for the older Parkside Dundas kits, the axles were definitively of a different make then, also there might have been no brass bearings with the pin points turning in the plastic axle boxes. The current axles can be regauged to EM, although the clearance between the flanged bearing cups and wheel disc is very tight. Removing the flange on the bearing but adding a thin fiber washer on the outside of the wheels will make things work better, the widening of the frame as you did is necessary anyway to get things right for both 00 or EM.
An interesting video with some useful info and tips. I had wondered about making kits, it looks like it might be fun for the days ahead when the garage is too cold for train running.
Parkside kits are getting on a bit now. If I remember hornby and Bachmann use(d) 26mm long axles and Lima, possibly mainline and the like use(d) 25mm long axles, parkside unknown but possibly when designed the kits were set up to whatever quantity axles were available at the time, just pinpoint into plastic I think, brass bearings came later. Don't quote me though :)
Some of them are earlier red panda kits and some other brands that were purchased and rebranded to parkside and the range expanded but from what I know they've always been meant to take brass bearings and have come with such since I first built one as a spotty kid back in the late 90s and a good while before that when my dad was building them before I could be trusted with the stanley knife and solvents lol Fitting the bearings was never really an issue way back then so this could be down to a change in bearing spec?
3005 medium rust 3008 track rust 3015 brick dust are the ones I use most Commonly on all projects, then the 2 or 3 that I use for specific needs on some models. I don't have the full range, can get by most of the time with the limited few I have. Pick up a new one every couple of months or when I need one.
