Garden Railway Forum

After spending considerable time trying to understand why my Maestro will nor run I am still without success. I really would like to hear from someone who has a working Merlin Maestro for information on how it is setup. I am fairly sure that the problem is a a timing issue and as there are no actual...

Hi jimmytrains Thanks for your reply. On my Maestro there is no protruding brass rod at the rear but I can understand what it does. My Forward/Reverse gear is activated with an RC servo which together with another servo activating the steam valve is how it would have been supplied new. I think the p...

I have recently acquired a Merlin Maestro but I'm having problems getting it to run. At this point I'm attempting to run it on compressed air and although it shows some signs of movement it almost immediately locks up. To me this suggests that the timing is wrong which probably is a result of at som...