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- Thu May 09, 2024 10:21 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Accucraft Shay
- Replies: 5
- Views: 151
Re: Accucraft Shay
I also have an Accucraft two truck Shay (MichCal). Good steamer, good runner, pulls everything you put behind her. Only drawback (in my view) is the huge hand pump. You can fill the boiler with just a few strokes but it is easy to tilt the loco in the process, lifting the front bogie off the track. ...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 8:21 am
- Forum: For Sale
- Topic: Sold - MDC G2110 Big Hustler G scale loco kit - pics added
- Replies: 9
- Views: 545
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:21 pm
- Forum: General Garden Railways
- Topic: Servicing
- Replies: 4
- Views: 500
Re: Servicing
Why not go to Eaton Park, Norwich and talk to the Model engineers there?
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 9:09 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Next overhaul project....
- Replies: 47
- Views: 10535
Re: Next overhaul project....
Today, 807 received a proper baptism. https://up.picr.de/47409239ma.jpg The Steel turtle had just received a new set of batteries and a light overhaul. She weighs about 40kgs, the body is made of 3mm steel plates. Turret can be turned endlessly (10core twist connection), water gun has a range of 5 t...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 9:41 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: A Ruston-ish ....
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1569
Re: A Ruston-ish ....
Rust-Oleum?
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 9:15 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Next overhaul project....
- Replies: 47
- Views: 10535
Re: Next overhaul project....
More work has been done. I added some more hidden lead and replaced the 0.8mm internal diameter pipe between the banjo bolts with 2mm internal diameter pipe. I now have to re-set the valves when the engine is hot. Never thought that expansion would have a noticeable effect in 5" gauge but it do...
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 9:31 am
- Forum: Quarterly Garden Railway Gallery
- Topic: June 2024 Garden Railway Gallery - ENTER HERE
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2297
Re: June 2024 Garden Railway Gallery - ENTER HERE
No entries yet? OK, here we go: https://up.picr.de/46423700zt.jpg I always wanted a working water tower for my 5" gauge layout. Most German ones of the right (small) size are of brick construction or have a spherical tank. Some even have an inverted sphere at the bottom. This was way to compli...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 10:51 am
- Forum: General Garden Railways
- Topic: The Great Garden Railway Inspection Reports
- Replies: 333
- Views: 200820
Re: The Great Garden Railway Inspection Reports
I´ll volunteer to (and give you the choice if he shall inspect o-gauge or 5" gauge (or maybe both?).
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 9:35 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Next overhaul project....
- Replies: 47
- Views: 10535
Re: Next overhaul project....
Yesterday we hat a meeting at a firend´s track. There is a long uphill section. While firing up I heard comments like "that thing is never giong to pull anything" and "just put it on the mantelpiece". Jokes aside, the loco is running. I made it up the long incline, the pressure g...
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 11:20 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: originally from Germany
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1801
Re: originally from Germany
I only know the Plank VULCAN being driven on the first axle.
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 7:21 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Next overhaul project....
- Replies: 47
- Views: 10535
Re: Next overhaul project....
Goes better than before, but still not as I want it to. Blower kan keep the fire alive now st 50 to 75 psi and even raise the pressure. Blastpipe still needs some tuning. As usual with traction engines the blastpipe is in the chimney, so there is less area for the exhaust steam to mix with the hot g...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 1:20 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Next overhaul project....
- Replies: 47
- Views: 10535
Re: Next overhaul project....
Investigated further into the draughting issue: The exhaust steam enters a T-piece...at the bottom. So much for not obstructing the flow of the exhaust steam. The blower was also included in this strange contraption. As soon as I tried to unscrew anything, the exhaust steam pipe and the blower pipe ...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 8:09 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Next overhaul project....
- Replies: 47
- Views: 10535
Re: Next overhaul project....
Still not happy with the draughting. I am only used to 5" gauge locos having the blower and blast pipe inside the smokebox. I would like to ask the experts here: As the exhaust steam enters the chimney above boiler level, how should the blast pipe and blower nozzle look in order to create a goo...
Re: Bird Box
Sometimes the connection is a bit slow.
It is a free camera hoster.
You will hardly see the birds now as it is cold and rainy, so they stopped bringing in stuff for the nest.
The female sleeps in the box every night now.
It is a free camera hoster.
You will hardly see the birds now as it is cold and rainy, so they stopped bringing in stuff for the nest.
The female sleeps in the box every night now.
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 2:19 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Next overhaul project....
- Replies: 47
- Views: 10535
Re: Next overhaul project....
Had a few laps on Saturday. The loco pulls me but needs more weight. Traction is a real issue. The new grate works well. When running, she can keep the steam. However, the blower still cannot keep the fire alive at standstill, even with 75 psi on the clock. (to be investigated). It is fun to ride th...
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 8:59 am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: How's this for a near miss
- Replies: 10
- Views: 855
Re: How's this for a near miss
Near Braunschweig we had an even more stupid lorry driver. He wanted to deliver things to a mill near BRaunschweig but the road gates were still closed as he was quite early. He then saw that the railway gates were open and he thought he would just drive his lorry on the railway tracks to the inside...
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 2:11 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Time to build a railway...but where?
- Replies: 3391
- Views: 1111763
Re: Time to build a railway...but where?
I am still looking for a proper model in 1:10 or 1:11 to bonvert a VW bus to a railcar.
Some yeara ago a company came up with the HO gauge DMC DeLorean time machine car (running on rails).
Sometime ago I took photos of a railcar based on an Opel Olympia.
There are so many possibilities.....
Some yeara ago a company came up with the HO gauge DMC DeLorean time machine car (running on rails).
Sometime ago I took photos of a railcar based on an Opel Olympia.
There are so many possibilities.....
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 9:03 am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Typos and speech to text gaffs which make me smile
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3630
Re: Typos and speech to text gaffs which make me smile
As an assessor I get lots and lots of documents to check. I have a huge file in the office containing only the best ones. German autocorrect went in and changes "Worst-case Betrieb" to WURST Case Betrieb. (Sausage case Operation). Some things turn robust by the change of a letter. Maximum ...
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 7:26 am
- Forum: Videos
- Topic: What I wanted to do, but way better
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1705
Re: What I wanted to do, but way better
Wow, that seems pretty strong! I wonder how far it could get with a tender-mounted dustbuster? I was thinking how long the cable would have to be on a large garden railway and what happens under bridges / tunnels :shock: Come on, think out of the box: A leaf blower to power the loco which in turn i...