So recently I won a Perfecta OO gauge conversion kit that is coming with a Pug by Kitmaster online from a popular (Very popular) bidding site and I'm anxiously awaiting its arrival (I've been after one since I heard about it a few years ago) I was wondering if anybody on the forum had any experiance building one of these??? I would love to know! Would a Modern Motor work that is 12-24 volts??? how could one get it to run slower without Digital Command Control???? and where might I be able to pick up a few television suppressors for it? what should I be looking for???
That looks like a nifty little kit, but before your post I never heard of the brand.
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-Kevin
Living the dream.
The Pug as well as the Perfecta motorizing kit are very British and I doubt you will find many in here being familiar with either one.
Happy times!
Ulrich (aka The Tin Man)
"You´re never too old for a happy childhood!"
Well, the pre-decimalization pricing on the kit box shows the kits are likely pre-1971. If you haven't already, maybe check out the RMWeb website (www.rmweb.co.uk) and search around their forums.If need be, you should be able to register there for free (I did a few years back) and ask for advice.
I have vague recollections of a Kitmaster review in MR several decades ago -- all I recollect is that the (American, obviously) reviewer had problems with the decals that came with the unpowered kit, finding them flimsy, and that the plastic seemed different than the type of styrene most often encountered here and more prone to softening by solvent cements. But again that was not THIS kit and likely even predated the speculated [above] 1971 era.
Dave Nelson
As an Englishman
I remembers the UK currency pre 1971
I once built the Kitmaster Pug (- and saw the original in working order!)
I owned a Hornby Dublin 3 Rail layout.
I can offer advice about both your posts relating to the Kitmaster kit and the three rail conversion
The Kitmaster pug motorising kit lacks wheels and you would need a good deal of modelling experience and know how to make a motorised chassis with pick up and connecting rods. Purchasing the correct size and pattern wheels might prove difficult.
3 Rail track has the two rails electrically connected with the third middle rail isolated for pick up. This is fine on plain track but makes switches and diamonds very complex.
if you have an existing two rail loco you would need to substitute either the left or right rail pick up for the skate pickup under the middle of the loco. In reality, this might be easy to do.
Unless you already have Marklin or Hornby 3 Rail track, adding the third rail to existing turnouts or diamonds would be a nightmare!
I gave up modelling 3rd Rail nearly 60 years ago.
Could I ask what is your motivation for building and motorising the pug, and changing a two rail loco to 3 Rail?
You can purchase Hornby Dublo 3 Rail track here in the UK and the Pug can be purchased ready to run.
A number of EBay sellers here in the UK will sell both -
https://www.hornby.com/uk-en/railroad-br-0-4-0st-smokey-joe.html
http://www.highlevelkits.co.uk/pugpage.html