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Spanish metre gauge in G scale (on the cheap)
Silly me. I made my first ever wooden coach kit and thought I'd be smart and use a pair of small-wheeled axles of unknown origin I had sitting in the bits box, in place of the supplied plastic ones. It didn't occur to me to check the back-to-back distance. So now I have a built model with wheels which could do with sliding 2mm further apart (they are splined and ready and there is enough room between the axle boxes). However, the way in which the kit goes together makes it nigh-on impossible to remove the axles now, so I need to make the adjustment in-situ. Fat fingers have failed to budge the wheels. My own ignorance astounds me sometimes.
Any suggestions as to how I can use a standard DIY tool or something to squeeze them apart, without wrecking the model? So far, all I've come up with is an idea to cut a bolt to fit between the wheels and slowly undo a nut, but that seems a bit risky, even for me.
Any suggestions as to how I can use a standard DIY tool or something to squeeze them apart, without wrecking the model? So far, all I've come up with is an idea to cut a bolt to fit between the wheels and slowly undo a nut, but that seems a bit risky, even for me.