I’ve started work on converting the EFE Rail (/Heljan?) Hymek to EM using Alan Gibson wheelsets. Based on what I’d read on various, it looks like it should be a fairly straightforward swap and drop-in, however I’m wondering if the EFE version of the Hymek has been changed in subtle ways that might make it slightly more difficult…
Namely, the pickups seem to be set to bear on the rear of the wheels somewhere towards the middle, not a problem for the OO wheels as they have metal backs. However the Gibsons are plastic centred and need the pickup bearing nearer the rim, and there doesn’t seem to be enough downward play in the pickup to allow this to happen.
Bending the pickups outwards to match the wider back to back is fine, as reported elsewhere, it’s just there doesn’t seem to be a way to then get them where they need to touch!
Has anyone else done an EFE as opposed to Heljan conversion and found this, and if so any suggestions how to get round it?