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Lovely boiler!

"Fury" By Ivan Prior "The engine was made by me as this is what I used to design and manufacture small batches of specials and competition model aero engines I used an os 10 crankcase and car pull start fitted with a long stroke to be able to run at low revs and new piston and cylinde...

Has anyone got any pics or more info on the IP Engineering "Fury"? Here's an article I scanned a number of years ago from an even older magazine of my Dad's. The pics didn't scan too well in B&W :D Page 1 IP Engineering 'Fury' Live Diesel Garden Rail 1997 09 49 to 50-1.png Page 2 IP En...

Over the years I have sold off my 3 bought locos. This past weekend my last one went to its new home. The last run I gave it was on the rollers in August 2019

We are having a Large Scale Christmas



Merry Christmas one and all!

I'd be happy for PayPal not to refund these greedy folks, they need to learn their lesson That rather misses the point of my post, which was that even if a "purchaser" is refunded, as far as I can see money is still given to the scammers, therefore encouraging more scams to be created. I ...

... the possibility that I'll have to ask PayPal for my money back is pretty high, but what's life without a little risk? Come to think of it, assuming the money is reclaimed from PayPal, does PayPal take the hit/reclaim the loss from an insurance policy? Or to put it another way, does legitimate b...

These scammers prey on the greedy. I don't have a problem with that

Lots of lovely steam

FWLR wrote: ↑Fri Nov 27, 2020 2:06 pm I don't have many Autumnal photos, so I have looked through my achieves and come up with this one...
This was taken on our very first FWLR line in November....Hope it's okay for you guys and your very high standards....

Lovely loco Rod

HugoFitz wrote: ↑Wed Dec 09, 2020 9:15 am Now you’ve given me ideas about how I can make a gas fired engine smoke.....!

Let us know how you do it.

I've had burning steam oil create smoke

Had a hard job making smoke but here it is

The process of turning the eccentrics in case it’s useful to anyone, made up a little spring loaded thing which sits between the tailstock centre and a center pop on the workpiece, dial indicator mounted in the tool holder as I seem to have misplaced my magnetic stand and used to clock in the 4 jaw...

I'm really looking forward to another run Rod, but the weather is against me :thumbup: If it's not raining it's blowing a gale. In the meantime have I made another cover for the real steam dome. The old one leaked at the thread when using my gentle thread sealant or PTFE tape, it was visible at stea...

Thank you Rod!

This fuel is lovely and clean burning, no need for tube sweeping, just a puff of air will do

Here we are lads! Had a great run on the line yesterday. The second run around the whole loop. BBQ briquettes are up to the job. I got two laps eventually on one firing before putting the loco to bed - to run the fire right down. Interesting video, an over full boiler with water coming out of the sa...

What a lovely engine

FWLR wrote: ↑Tue Nov 10, 2020 6:58 am Looks fantastic Dave. Wish I could smell it also. Are you going to film it having a run please....

It smells good Rod. A film will be done