Unusual ebay loco

paullad1984 · Post by **paullad1984** » Sun Jul 26, 2015 9:30 am

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/live-steam-mo ... 3cff2ead9c
Never seen anything like it before!

SapperAnt · Post by **SapperAnt** » Sun Jul 26, 2015 10:52 am

That's really quite sweet[/u]

paullad1984 · Post by **paullad1984** » Sun Jul 26, 2015 10:53 am

Isn't it?

SapperAnt · Post by **SapperAnt** » Sun Jul 26, 2015 10:54 am

If only I weren't broke and it was 32mm

Dr. Bond of the DVLR · Post by **Dr. Bond of the DVLR** » Sun Jul 26, 2015 11:12 am

Laurence sent me a link to this yesterday. Perfect loco for my line however the price will be out of my range by the time it ends - it is certainly a good looking, interesting locomotive.

Big Jim · Post by **Big Jim** » Mon Jul 27, 2015 6:17 pm

Rather nice, wonder who built it?[/i]

bazzer42 · Post by **bazzer42** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 10:01 am

The price wasn't too bad but I would have been wary reading the -negative feedback. I'm not engineer enough to take the chance.

funandtrains · Post by **funandtrains** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 2:04 pm

I was tempted too but a scratch built loco that has not been run much makes me wonder why. It also has Hackworth valve gear and the cylinders to not appear to be angled as they should for best performance.

DLRdan · Post by **DLRdan** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 6:29 pm

funandtrains:112328 wrote:I was tempted too but a scratch built loco that has not been run much makes me wonder why. It also has Hackworth valve gear and the cylinders to not appear to be angled as they should for best performance.

In this scale the angle does not matter as the error caused becomes a few thou, not enough to throw the timing out.

funandtrains · Post by **funandtrains** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 6:40 pm

DLRdan:112332 wrote:
funandtrains:112328 wrote:I was tempted too but a scratch built loco that has not been run much makes me wonder why. It also has Hackworth valve gear and the cylinders to not appear to be angled as they should for best performance.

In this scale the angle does not matter as the error caused becomes a few thou, not enough to throw the timing out.

However I have a friend with a factory Roundhouse loco with Hackworth gear and it never runs properly for very long.

DLRdan · Post by **DLRdan** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 8:48 pm

That is strange, all the Roundhouse engines fitted with Hackworth have run really well. I fitted it to my Bertie some years ago and it still runs well even though its not long overdue a rebuild.[/i]

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