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- Wed Jun 07, 2023 10:29 am
- Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
- Topic: SSP slomo
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5004
Re: SSP slomo
These guys http://wilsonlocomotives.com.au/ are planning to start making them again, available next year.
- Tue Jun 06, 2023 10:27 am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Full size railway reference and picture thread
- Replies: 92
- Views: 36557
Re: Full size railway reference and picture thread
Years ago, there used to be a whimsical exhibition layout that settled the 32mm vs. 45mm argument by using variable gauge track between the two, and using similar wheels to allow it to happen.
- Sun Jun 04, 2023 9:21 am
- Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
- Topic: Merlin and Tom Cooper Osmoter help needed.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7758
Re: Merlin and Tom Cooper Osmoter help needed.
Any chance your Merlin has just worn out? It happens, seen several.
- Thu Jun 01, 2023 2:04 pm
- Forum: General Garden Railways
- Topic: Help - U.K SAR info wanted
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4656
Re: Help - U.K SAR info wanted
And it no longer exists. The owner and builder dismantled it all earlier this year: http://nwwales.16mm.org.uk/cshhr.html Unfortunately, he broke Garden Railway Rule No. 1: Wood has no place when building a garden railway. I saw Ian only yesterday and he was telling me that he's sold the track and g...
- Mon Mar 13, 2023 10:39 am
- Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
- Topic: Lady Ann will not run
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4534
Re: Lady Ann will not run
Well done.
- Wed Mar 08, 2023 12:46 pm
- Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
- Topic: Lady Ann will not run
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4534
Re: Lady Ann will not run
The regulator closes by compressing an O-ring on the end of its spindle. This does not need to be fully forced to shut, otherwise the loco will behave as you describe. Instead it needs to be wound out probably by one turn or so before the operating handle (connected to the servo) is locked in its &q...
- Tue Mar 07, 2023 11:31 am
- Forum: General Garden Railways
- Topic: Biting the bullet - wholesale conversion from 45mm to SM32
- Replies: 32
- Views: 11236
Re: Biting the bullet - wholesale conversion from 45mm to SM32
Good man, and welcome to The One True Gauge.
- Sat Jan 07, 2023 10:59 am
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: PDF single Fairlie
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6205
- Fri Jan 06, 2023 11:02 am
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: PDF single Fairlie
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6205
Re: PDF single Fairlie
Puzzled by the round spectacles on the cab front ... should they not be rectangular?
- Thu Dec 29, 2022 10:21 am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Help please - if you can
- Replies: 48
- Views: 17891
Re: Help please - if you can
It is an Alco RS18-20, not that that is much help, sorry.
- Mon Dec 05, 2022 11:21 am
- Forum: General Garden Railways
- Topic: Hunslet Hughie
- Replies: 34
- Views: 11032
- Mon Dec 05, 2022 11:19 am
- Forum: General Garden Railways
- Topic: Hunslet Hughie
- Replies: 34
- Views: 11032
- Mon Oct 10, 2022 3:23 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: TVT - Dylanesque
- Replies: 31
- Views: 10861
Re: TVT - Dylanesque
Looks great, what colour will it be painted? And I am glad that I gave just the smallest part of inspiration right at the start. On my web page, PATHFINDER is my own loco, and the first one I obtained. Second-hand, cost me £180. A lot has changed/been replaced since then though. Factory-built Dylans...
- Thu Sep 08, 2022 10:27 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Llewellyn Loco Works #1
- Replies: 917
- Views: 359388
Re: Llewellyn Loco Works #1
I used to drive full-size on the Festiniog Railway.
Personally, I can't stand Slomos either.
Each to their own.
Personally, I can't stand Slomos either.
Each to their own.
- Wed Sep 07, 2022 10:38 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Llewellyn Loco Works #1
- Replies: 917
- Views: 359388
Re: Llewellyn Loco Works #1
I reckon every Roundhouse Classic Loco should come with a whistle supplied. They did, on one, the Vale of Rheidol 2-6-2T, and they provided instructions on how to maintain it. It appears that few owners read those instructions and VoR whistles continue to be a problem as the control valve can seize...
- Thu Sep 01, 2022 10:50 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: 5” gauge Sweet Pea. Leaking clack valve
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4262
Re: 5” gauge Sweet Pea. Leaking clack valve
Replace the stainless steel ball with one of these: https://www.maidstone-engineering.com/c ... ls-nitrile
- Wed Aug 03, 2022 11:17 am
- Forum: Videos
- Topic: Brambleton Model Railway Club
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3566
Re: Brambleton Model Railway Club
I was a member in the early 1970s. My, how it has improved in the intervening years. Grass? We had wall-to-wall mud!
- Fri Jul 15, 2022 6:44 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Gas burner for pot boiler
- Replies: 23
- Views: 11753
- Thu Jul 14, 2022 10:09 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: "Calloway", a Roundhouse Bundaberg Fowler Rebuild
- Replies: 58
- Views: 28292
- Sun Jul 10, 2022 3:05 pm
- Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
- Topic: accucraft ng 16 re guaging
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3540
Re: accucraft ng 16 re guaging
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...