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Post by ACLR » Wed Dec 31, 2008 4:16 am

I have been wanting a gas burner for my MSS loco for some time now and with the $ to £ conversion rate being terible at the moment I thought I would put the lathe to good use.

here are the results so far
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the burner tube was made from 10mm solid brass bar as it is a lot cheeper to buy thean brass tube.
and the gas jets are from portable gas stoves available from good camping stores.
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next thing to do is build the gas cylender
stand by for further progress :D

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Post by Chris » Wed Dec 31, 2008 8:45 pm

Look forward to seeing the results. Did you have a plan or are you just guessing it will work ok?

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Post by ACLR » Wed Dec 31, 2008 9:19 pm

I saw one on a friend of mine SL1 which gave me the idea and also there is a larger one in the book I have "Steam Trains in Your Garden" so sort of making one to fit the loco

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Post by ACLR » Sat Jan 03, 2009 7:06 am

I have just finished building and testing the Gas burner and its now fitted to Marvin.

Video in video section soon

It is now working great I built a new burner part with different sized slots and it now burns great. :D

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Post by MTA » Sat Jan 03, 2009 11:14 am

That is good news, Graham.

I look forward to the vid :D
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