Mamod vs Edrig

[ACLR]

I wont be voting either as I only own mamods so can not compare.
and I also love tinkering as you have probly noticed from my posts

[Matt]

I'm voting for the edrig, even though I don't have one yet !

[South-Trethevy]

You've all made good points as to why each loco is better than the other...... I still think mamod is beter but thats just my opinion!

[mhlr]

You've all made good points as to why each loco is better than the other...... I still think mamod is beter but thats just my opinion!

It would be as you only have 2 mamods, so it is hard for you to compare. But hey, it's YOUR decision.

[South-Trethevy]

yeah...
it is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MuzTrem]

yeah but every mamod is differant,
a charector to make em special!

That is actually a fair point. Most of my experience is with Roundhouse engines, and lovely as they are it must be said they are all very similar to drive. All the same, I think that on balance that's a price worth paying for consistent, reliable running - unlike John, I'm not the kind of garden railwayman who likes to spend hours in the workshop trying to get things to work, I'd rather be outside running trains!

Also, I've driven a friend's Edrig and it's a lovely engine...so in the end, that's the way I cast my vote

[SillyBilly]

I get annoyed with stuff, and almost everytime it's a mamod product I get annoyed!

[laalratty]

Am I the only person on this forum to have had to tinker with an Accucraft engine to get it to run properly

[SillyBilly]

Errr, as I've said before, my one needs the timming adjusting. But that's nothing compared to the long, expensive slog you have with a mamod.

[laalratty]

Ah the timeing for me would of been a 5 miniute job, but i turned the shaft that goes into the valve block the wrong way and it fell out of where it links into the reverser! With mine it was a case of screw the shaft into the block to make it go better in reverse and out of the block to make it go beter forward

[South-Trethevy]

Who was the other person to vote for mamod?
1 was me.........

[grumpfuttock]

Am I the only person on this forum to have had to tinker with an Accucraft engine to get it to run properly

Well I have to admit to having had a very small but necessary tinker with my Accucraft "Ida", that was to fix one of the cylinder valves which had come loose on its adjustment screw and had un-adjusted itself whilst running, oh and I fitted radio control to it as well.

Of course I will be doing alot of tinkering with my Edrig chassis. Hopefully next week (time willing) I will get started on making a new footplate for it.

[alan2525]

They are both great loco's, obviously the Mamod was designed for the Toy Market, and the Edrig is much more expensive and designed for the Garden Railway market.

Personaly I like the both and there is place for both of them on a garden railway too. I get as much of a buzz from seeing a Mamod, or IP or PPS loco in steam as watching an Accucraft of Roundhouse Loco. I especially like the little additions that can easily be made to the Mamod, to get a better running and better looking loco.

[made-in-england]

I think it very much depends on your line, if you are like me and just collect locos and stock laying the odd circel of track to run them i see little point and no matter how much i love them justify buying one! However being more involved with deseil 2ft gauge i am more drawn to these models!