Mike Sharman wheelsets

Steve,

before you get hanged drawn and quartered, the exact scale 7mm standard is called Scale7 or S7 for short. It has been on the go for over 30 years and has an active group in support of it.

Slaters is probably the 7mm scale equivalent of Sharman for driving wheel supplies.

There's Alan Gibson's range as well

These wheels are usually only available in 7mm Fine standard and need to be re-profiled for Scale7. The Scale7 Group can arrange for wheels to be re-profiled, or can supply a profile tool if you want to do it yourself. There is a rumour that Slaters might consider providing some of their range with a Scale7 tyre profile but nothing definite seems to have happened so far. Rolling stock wheels are available off the shelf from Slaters with Scale7 profile.

Jim.

Well, if you want decent odds, go for Scotland :-)

Jim.

G'day, The Wallabies have been playing to get better odds for the world cup.

Beware the sleeping Marsupials. Graeme Hearn

Have you been attending the "Eddie Jones University of Rugby Coaching"? In particular, Pathetic & Feeble Excuses 101? Eddie himself teaches this course...

But enough of Rugby, back to trains! :)

Steve

Richard,

Just giving good unbiased help. The way England are playing, you ain't going to get any decent odds. The way Scotland are playing , you could get 1000 to 1 :-)

I've actually been looking at re-vamping the whole site to change its direction. In my business life, things have changed so much over the past year or so that I really don't have all that much time for modelling - probably a few hours on a Sunday each week if other domestic matters don't impinge. So work on the Midland layout has virtually ground to a halt in the meantime. But I have been doing other things in Scale7 and S which will show a quicker return on my limited time, and maybe the site should encompass them to show that my modelling life is not completely moribund :-)

I've also got myself a half decent digital camera and have been out and about with the grandson using it - with a Scot's congenital disregard for the law of trespass :-)

Jim,.

Possibly. I placed an order before Christmas 2002. To cut a long story short, after six months of letters, emails and answer machine messages, with no responses whatsoever, I finally wrote cancelling the order. By this stage, I felt that the cancellation was somewhat academic.

I haven't heard that Sharman are no longer trading, and wouldn't wish to imply that. If anyone does know anything, I would be genuinely interested to know, on- or off-group. Maybe I've missed some kind of announcement in the model press.

Just before their website went off-line, I noticed that the last "announcement" related to a virus causing problems, but that was February

2002, ie 16 months ago.

They only did 4mm scale wheels to my knowledge anyway - others have posted regarding 7mm wheels.

Paul

I was aware of this, but it is well worth pointing out. To me, the poor level of customer service at Sharman Wheels is a shame, and I would hope that people don't incorrectly associate this with Mike Sharman. For Steven Hodgson to not even have the courtesy of replying to any of my many and varied attempts to progress an order is unforgiveable bad manners, and does the whole model railway "small trader" business no good whatsoever. Even a reply along the lines of "Sorry, no mail order - exhibitions only." would have been something.

Having got that off my chest, does anyone have a list of Sharman wheels? I am glad to know that they are still apparently available at some exhibitions, but I chucked out the paper list ages ago, instead relying on his website. The website that is now off-line....

Paul Boyd