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Replace the stainless steel ball with one of these: https://www.maidstone-engineering.com/c ... ls-nitrile

I was a member in the early 1970s. My, how it has improved in the intervening years. Grass? We had wall-to-wall mud!

jefran wrote: ↑Fri Jul 15, 2022 6:24 pmGas is taken from the bottom of the tank...

That's unusual. Normal practice is to come off the top of the tank to avoid liquid gas being fed to the burner. It causes surging when that happens.

Top job.

With all those wheels, it takes a while. Use Allen key supplied, loosen grub screw, slide wheel down axle, tighten grub screw back in to the drilled hole in the axle. Check the gas tank too. They were / should have been replaced when the locos were new. You may have to contact Accucraft with the ser...

Having painted many a model and full-size loco, my understanding is there is no such colour. LNWR locos were always described as being Blackberry Black but consensus amongst those that know was they were painted normal black and it was the lacquer applied over the top once it had been "cooked&q...

There is a nice man called Roger who will sell you some replacements: http://www.strikalite.co.uk/

ge_rik wrote: ↑Thu Jun 23, 2022 6:43 amNo, afraid not. It's a trek trying to go West - East and with Llanfair and Llangollen on this side of the country I have easier alternatives.

What Rik said. The National (Wales) Garden Railway show at Llangollen was great. To me Peterborough is just something that happens that other people go to.

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Finally, this was the show that those of us who live in the west of the UK have craved for the last 11 years, since the last one at Stoneleigh. The Event Manager confirmed to me that it will be back next year, and the year after, at the same venue but reconfigured to have it all in the large hall, w...

There can't be many people who have seen a roll-film camera that looks like this, but they seem to know what it means:

Thank you!

GAP wrote: ↑Wed May 04, 2022 11:45 pmI was frequent viewer of the forum ...

Which forum, please?

Glue? No... Whatever you use will take the paint off if the plate is ever removed.

Instructions for silicone here: http://www.rhoshelyg.me.uk/MDC.html#Fitting

90mA for 15 hours it says... https://www.strikalite.co.uk/viewproduc ... prodid=944

Simon-m wrote: ↑Sun Apr 03, 2022 8:58 pmmy tip is to light it from under the cylinders not the chimney

Always the best way to do it. Put the flame where the heavier-than-air gas is, not where it might be.

How good does that look? Gorgeous!

I can't help but feel it should visit the Isle of Man for testing. Or Chama. Or Durango.

Isn't there a copyright on the design?

Sorry, I can't think of a commercially produced Hackworth valve gear loco available at the moment. Prescott locos change hands for robust 4-figure values these days, unusual to find one where the first digit is a "1". The first Roundhouse Hackworth gear appeared on Pooter. No angled cylind...