Tinkerbell Equalisation

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Trainfreak
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Tinkerbell Equalisation

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Heres an interesting thought. Been having a look at the design of Tinkerbell locomotives and note that the rear axle must carry a hell of a lot of weight compared to the drivers. Has anybody toyed with the idea of equalising the weight across the drivers and the trailing axle? If so, how would you go about doing it?
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Re: Tinkerbell Equalisation

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Depends on weight of engineer as compared to weight of finished boiler, smoke box and cylinders.

The tinkers I have seen in the UK and ZA (never driven one) did not seem to be unbalanced or want for traction
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Re: Tinkerbell Equalisation

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If you watch Matt Chivers on YouTube make his Tink frames I think he triples up on the thickness of the front buffer for weight. Check it out
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