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Something I've found to be useful with the water gauge I fitted to my Millie: if (sorry, when) the gauge glass gets blocked, the easiest way to clear it quickly is to take out the top plug (the one you inserted the gauge glass through) and squirt water down the gauge glass, using your filler bottle....

pauly wrote:just been running it again!  shes addictive I tell ya :shock:  :lol:

Nah - it's those meths fumes!!

Nice to see it suffers from Wobbly Whistle Syndrome - just like my locos!

pauly wrote:she is very stiff and clunkey at the moment but will improve with running in

You will also find she'll run much more smoothly when she's on some track. I don't know why this should be, but it's certainly true!

Ah! - you mean like this:

I could have found you a better boat............... (but I haven't yet worked out how to post images here) http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/mdltrly/images/odd01.jpg and http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/mdltrly/images/odd02.jpg will show you!

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Great pictures - you've mastered the art of taking pictures at night more than I have with the new camera, but I'm sure I'll get there! BTW, still can't see the MDLR's permanent way - I'll have to do some serious scraping and shovelling if I want to run a train today (which I may well want to do lat...

Not surprising it's out of stock! I'll mention it to Ivan..................

There's nothing quite as realistic as real rust. When the weather's better, I'll take a picture of the Lathkill Dale station building. It's over 18 years old (from memory) and the baked bean tin roof looks gorgeous!

Be careful - you might get more than you bargained for!!

It's LNER Excursion Stock green & cream (as used on the Festibahn in earlier days - something to do with an ex-LNER man being general manager!)

I assume you saw it with the lights on....................

We've been having snow flurries for about 3 hours, but no substantial falls yet!

New Vale of Rheidol coaches are out: http://www.ipengineering.co.uk/page122.html

I've just finished the first of there for the MDLR - see http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/mdltrly/coach115.html for the pictures. I've got to go out and take a couple more when it gets dark...........

http://www.freewebs.com/mhlr/history.htm is mine... ............ and if you go to: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/mdltrly/history.html you can read mine! As the MDLR has been around (as a concept) for many years, it's "developed" from the initial idea - anybody who saw the piece on the Railwa...

None of them are particularly difficult: perhaps new modellers need to be gently led by the hand to show them that a "basic" kit can produce a very worthwhile result.

Got to go in the shed now - Andrew Charman (SMT Editor) wants a review of the other thing I'm building - a VoR bogie coach!

Thank you one and all for the welcome!

I've just finished mine - go to
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/mdltrly/misstick.html to look at it!