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Evening Ted, I've never done it with the goodall removed from the boiler since I did the mod. What I did was take advice & buy a proper water refill bottle. The one I ordered was a regner one which is still to arrive. I have managed to get my roundhouse bottle to fill the boiler though so to spe...

Tony,

I gave the loco a 15 hour charge at 80ma, runs a treat. Thanks for the help.

Si

Ted,

Here's a picture of the modification I did to the silicone tubing.
Hopefully it helps.

Sure Ted I will post a picture today, I've steamed her about 6 times now & she's loosening up now, I had the burner set higher & it seems to run miles better, the safety valve lifted correctly too whilst running. I've a feeling this one needs a little more fire to get the best results. She s...

Thanks for the replies everyone. I'm going to give it a go today because I steamed the loco last night & the battery died so it needs a good charge.

Tony I will go with what the strikealite battery says. I thought it would be something like that.

Cheers

Si

Hey up Ted,

I cut mine last night & it's working, I still get spray back but it's filling the boiler, you can tell by the spikes on the pressure gauge & water gauge glass.

I've recently got the exact same peckett you have. It's an excellent steamer & it'll happily run at a slowish speed & it'll restart its self if it looses a bit of steam pressure. I absolutely love mine it's one of my favourite locos.

It has a surprisingly good haulage capacity too.

Phil, I've got a bottle winging it's way to me from Strikealite. Unfortunately the regner dealer is out of stock of top up bottles. Right, following Marks advice at GRS I've done a modification to the goodall valve by taking off a slice of the silicone tube. Unfortunately at the moment I cannot take...

I'm wanting to fix some nameplates to a loco & as the saddle tank gets rather hot I was wondering what is the best adhesive to use to stick the plate to the loco.

Any reccomendations?

Cheers

Si

Right chaps an update. I've spoke to Mark at GRS & he has told me to cut some of the silicone tube on the goodall valve to shorten it. Its tight sometimes & makes the goodall valve stops working. The oil issues isn't an issue as such. It uses very little oil so that's a bonus. I'm going to g...

Phil, On your advice I've found & ordered the regner top up bottle. 2 of my friends told me to order a proper top up bottle years ago although I've been using my roundhouse ones ever since. Ted, As we are both having the same issues I will report back on the goodall valve once the regner bottle ...

Phil,

Where did you get the regner top up bottle from?

Cheers

Si

https://youtu.be/yvElOGXxP9A

Quick link to YouTube of her running

Well my little hunslet arrived today for the second time. This time Alice arrived unharmed & in 1 piece. I have had a horrendous day at work today driving lorries up cart horse tracks to farms. 20220412_132720.jpg I drive artics usually so this drove me Insane to the point I nearly quit as I don...

I've a fleet of wagons all built but awaiting the paint shop. Apart from that I am a slow burner with coaches. I've at least 4 coaches that are at various stages of completion. Wagons I can knock together pretty qui key but coaches just drag on a bit & it takes me a while to finish them off. I a...

Cheers for the taster Ted

Your model seems to run exceptionally well at slow speeds. Have you done a haulage test with it to see how much she pulls?

Going to knock up 6 or 8 slaters Dinorwic slate wagons for her to pull.

Si

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for a little help please. I've got a mk1 Taliesen & when I got it she had no instructions or charger. As this version has batteries in the tanks I wonder if anyone can tell me what miliamps to charge it at? I'm guessing it's 15 hours charge time?

Cheers

Si

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Thanks Andrew it was a great weekend, I'm just about recovered from a few choice drinks. Unfortunately the England is going back to Roundhouse, it has issues. It will not stay lit, I can get it to light but it soon goes out & will not re light. Gas is hissing from the burner but it will no light...