A Life-Like E7
Locomotive chassis modified to fit a Farish Class 37
body.
The modifications
mainly consist of shortening the E7 chassis by approx
5mm, fitting Farish bogie side frames and reducing the
size of the metal weights to fit inside the class 37
body. It isn't difficult to reduce the length of the
chassis as it is made of plastic, I also removed one of
the flywheels on the motor to accommodate the reduced
length at one end. Fitting the bogie side frames is
fairly easy, the Life-Like wheel centres don't exactly
the axle box centres, but you can't see this when
completed. There is quite a bit of filing to do on the
weight blocks, but the material is soft and it isn't too
hard to achieve the necessary shape.
The Life-Like
chassis is of a very simple design, it has a 5 pole
skewed armature, flywheels, blackened wheels and it works
extremely well, both before, and after modification. I
can highly recommend it to anyone who is tired of
constantly repairing Farish drive units
