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[AlanP]

HI all, I am about to build the Pallfinger on my Graemsey. In the kit review MB August 2001 it shows a detailed drawing for putting it together, the kit no longer includes this drawing,   so I was wondering if another Mayemer had a copy and could scan it and email it to me. Its probably quite simple but there is a half sheet of plasticard pieces and a bag of white metal fittings and I haven't built one before, so if someone comes up with the drawing it would make life a lot easier.

Regards Alan 

[portside II]

hi Alan , i still have the printed plasticard sheet that came with mine , i will scan it for you and put it on here.
daz

[AlanP]

Thanks for looking Daz, thought I had cracked it, never mind 

Still looking for one of these drawings if anybody else thinks they might have one lurking at the back of a drawer.

Regards Alan

[ahammond]

I have the plans for the Palfinger still but at the moment I am in the process of shifting from the utility room to the garage so I will try and post them as soon as possible.

But to be perfectly honest if I were you I would not even bother building it. Italeri do a much better looking 1/24 scale  Palfinger type plastic crane construction kit for about £20. It is intended as an add-on for one of their truck kits but fits the Graemsay perfectly. It is far superior to the kit supplied effort and well worth the extra money. Even the truck wheels supplied in the kit are easily adapted to make a correct shaped round base for it.

[portside II]

that may be another route to follow ,
can you give us more info on the kit and where in the italeri site it is  .
daz

[AlanP]

Thanks for the reply ahammond, I have now got the drawing that I was after, but I like the idea of the palfinger by Italeri, so as Daz suggests, if you could post some more details we would be grateful.

Upgrading from the utility room to the garage, hope you have a stove or a heater in there for winter 

Alan

[ahammond]

The kit number is 776 and it is boxed as Truck Conversion Kit.

I bought mine from a shop called The Kit Box on Station Road Whitley Bay that specialises in plastic kits of all kinds but I have also seen it advertised on the web although it can be a bit of a search to find one.

The move from utility room to garage is mainly because I wanted extra space for my model railway and as the garage is only just over seven feet wide it has not been used to house a car for a few years now. Luckily it is only open to the outside at the front via the main door, our house being on one side and my neighbours garage on the other with the utility room at the back. So it was just a case of insulating and draft proofing the door and then laying a floating chipboard floor over the existing concrete one for more insulation  and voila I have a seventeen foot by seven foot workshop/hobby room that does not need a lot of heating to stay warm and the wife has her utility room back. The only slight drawback is a lack of natural light which meant wiring in extra lights on a seperate circuit but I used that as an excuse to lay in a few more sockets at the same time. 

[Circlip]

Be carefull what you call your "Hobby/workshop" within the ears of the local council cos if they get wind of a change of use from a "Garage" the rating rapists want a cut cos it becomes a "room".

    Regards   Ian.

[ahammond]

That is why I have kept the up and over door instead of bricking it up and putting in a window as several others on the estate  have done. I could also claim that  because  of its original features, including  a gas supply that once  fed a clothes washing tub and pulleys for a drying frame, that it was never seriously intended for use as a garage in the first place. Which to be honest I do not think it was. I think it was just a sales gimmick by the builders in the 1930s to help sell the houses as not that many people then actually had cars to put in a garage.