edrig afternoon run

andysleigh · Post by **andysleigh** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 4:49 pm

a video i made of a run i had this afternoon.
on the new track.

http://andysleigh.blip.tv/#695273

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 5:32 pm

That's very good. how do you get it to stay on the track when going round those bends are high speed?

andysleigh · Post by **andysleigh** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 5:34 pm

get what to stay on

edrig?

camera?

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 5:35 pm

I was talking about the edrig, but now you come to mention it, how do both does things stay on.

andysleigh · Post by **andysleigh** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 5:37 pm

edrig just some how stays on, but does come off sometimes, which is why the underside of the cylinders and scratched.

and the camera, well, same thing realy, somehow stays on, just not enought speed to trow it off

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 5:39 pm

My mamods don't have any form of speed control, so I get a few derailments on my line.

andysleigh · Post by **andysleigh** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 5:41 pm

indeed, mamods are on or off.
i can get my mamod to go at a perfect speed, but it changes when it gets more pressure.
and i find that the front is heavier than the back, so if it jumps, then the back lifts up off the rails

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 5:46 pm

That dosn't happen on my mamods. Unless they're pulling a heavy train, they tend to travel at the scale speed of sound, and then fly of the bends.

andysleigh · Post by **andysleigh** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 5:51 pm

Matt wrote:That dosn't happen on my mamods. Unless they're pulling a heavy train, they tend to travel at the scale speed of sound, and then fly of the bends.

yes.

i'v already scratched the edge of the tanks on my mamod

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 5:54 pm

Talking of scratching paint, a couple of years ago, me and ptlrcecil visited a railway in morcombe. One of ptlrcecil's engines, an expensive roundhouse one, flew down a gradient a off the line, srtaching the paintwork up badly.

andysleigh · Post by **andysleigh** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 5:58 pm

painful

i'v already got a smcratch on edrig and am anoyed, so i cant imagine how he felt

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 6:04 pm

Yeah, I've just remembered. It was a Roundhouse 'Argyll', and it's lining had been done by a professional company for quite a bit of money

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SillyBilly · Post by **SillyBilly** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 6:06 pm

Great video Andy, is this a permanent set-up or just a bit off fun? The biggest problem with the mamod track is that the joints doint join the rails, thus creating more oppurtunity to de-rail.

Your railway scathed my cylinder also Andy

. I had mine fall a few inches off a concrete ledge in to slate waste and it chipped some paint of the tank, needn't worry really it's a working steam engine, this type of thing happens.

andysleigh · Post by **andysleigh** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 6:10 pm

SillyBilly wrote:Great video Andy, is this a permanent set-up or just a bit off fun? The biggest problem with the mamod track is that the joints doint join the rails, thus creating more oppurtunity to de-rail.

Your railway scathed my cylinder also Andy . I had mine fall a few inches off a concrete ledge in to slate waste and it chipped some paint of the tank, needn't worry really it's a working steam engine, this type of thing happens.

at the mo its a fun setup, but i suspect mother will tell me to take it up when summer comes.

sorry to hear bout the tank, and sorry about the cylinder

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 6:25 pm

Can you persuade her to let you build a permerntent line? I managed to persuade my mum to let me use a disused rockery for my first line, partly because nobody used it, and partly, because she was wanting to make that part of the garden nicer, as it was right next to the car park for our B&B.

andysleigh · Post by **andysleigh** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 6:27 pm

Matt wrote:Can you persuade her to let you build a permerntent line? I managed to persuade my mum to let me use a disused rockery for my first line, partly because nobody used it, and partly, because she was wanting to make that part of the garden nicer, as it was right next to the car park for our B&B.

i already have, i said ' mum can i put a railway in the garden for my 7 1/4 loco and little steam engines?' she said ' do what you want to it, i never set foot in it anyway'

the garden is all mine now !

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 6:29 pm

You've got a ride-on loco

! How much did that cost?

andysleigh · Post by **andysleigh** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 6:33 pm

yep, but i am selling it,

cost around £500, because it needed a new boiler.
and i dont want it now, i want one of the mj engineering bagnalls. so i am selling it to pay for parts for it.
http://z9.invisionfree.com/MRW_Forums/i ... topic=1148

i might have a guy coming round tommrow to have a look at it.

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 6:36 pm

That link dosn't work. What type of engine is it?

andysleigh · Post by **andysleigh** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 6:37 pm

tich
http://www.freewebs.com/andyalsleigh/tich.htm

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