Garden Railway Forum

So Mamod factory paint WAS lead?

Evening chaps Using a blowtorch to reduce paint [original Mamod paint] off a loco for restoration. An acrid, metallic, smoking smell comes off it, penetrates my facemask and is quite disgusting. Sometimes the metalwork catches fire! Any idea what it is, if it's lead {!!} or not? Working outdoors, we...

Could be the wheels then?

The limited clearance thing actually has real prototype - what about the 'canyon' on the last quarter of the Vale of Rheidol where you cannot even stick your head out without risking severe injury?

Having won a little Mamod with some Aster and Chaney(?) parts on Ebay for a bargain initially for spare parts, correspondence with the seller revealed it was a historic little loco, built and modified as a 'two fingers up' to the crazy and expensive Mamodifications trend from about 20 years ago. 5 y...

I was at that bonfire - even helped build it on the Saturday!

Ahhhhhhhhhhh.

I didn't post in the For Sale specifically. I mentioned them in my Introduction post and a couple other posts.

Still, done and dusted now - only regret is not the bogie coach.

Erk -Langley Mill or Alfreton are roughly 2hrs from Bham New Street.

Yup. Never seen it happen myself pauly, but have wondered... Still. It's something to consider? I'm pleased though - for what the coaches are and how I can improve them cheaply, and compared to kits and rtrs, I think I've come out well. :) Shame aboutt he bogie coach but eh. Maybe it'll come up agai...

Exactly. Like on the Mamod forums. They have topics sticked for specific brands like Wilesco, Mamod, Fleischmann and so forth. Then if someone says "I'm going after it" and has definitely put an Ebay bid on, most users then treat it like a gentleman's agreement and decide to allow it. It's...

Duly noted -thanks chaps!

Ah ha, so it was you that I did battle with!

Hmm.

I think a system or an Ebay subforum where we can sort out who buys what or agreements/politico can be civilly sorted like on the Mamod forums. To avoid conflicts of interest and so forth?

There's also a semi-matching bogie coach but that's already on £33.50. I'm disappointed but at this moment in time am absolutly pushed for cash [being unemployed helps little!] Still, I am grateful I have secured the matching five. Someone put £30 on one!!  :evil: ADDENDUM: £42 for a Mamod coach?! C...

£130 for 4 four-wheel coaches and a matching guards van painted and ready to run, modified Mamod couplings so they can hook up to any stock ?

On avergae, £26 for each r-t-r vehicles. I think I've done okay - or am I stupid/ noobish?

Will talk about that later on down the line once I'm more bedded in here and settled.

Plus need to get stuff to contribute/actually run at such a dayout!:D

Thanking you kindly for the idea though NM

Phase Two is cosmetic loco ops. Spraying into VHT black of the boiler. New funnel. Sandboxes. Toolbox/accesories. Turnig the duff safety valve into a fake whistleset. New smokebox dart - if anyone has a spare Prescott or DJH one, I will buy and pay p7p!! Acquistion of a brass boiler band. Overlays &...

Could be that they are releasing engines that are complete but that can have their bodies changed as per kits to improve Edrigs etc?

Aye, it looks like the Butterly railway is quite a daytrip worth going to.

Only question is, how to get there on a Sunday with Public Transport...Derby seems to be the nearest NR station!

*takes notes* Moral of the story - stick with R2 minimum curves?

Standard boiler, the uprated boiler was to be the final upgrade. After all the effort, I did think about keeping her as a "pet" but on this occasion allowed my head to rule my heart. As much as anything else, I've proved to myself that I can part with a much loved loco as part of the grea...