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| pauly |
bought my first steamyfor a couple of weeks I have asked about a couple of different engines and have made me mind up  but which do you think it is
I will reveal it when the poll ends. 
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| MooseMan |
I think PPS Janet.....don't know why, just that it seems very reasonably priced and well featured - probably what I would buy. | ||||||
| DLR |
i went for the the berTie but then i'm baiased
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| tmuir |
I've gone with the PPS Janet too as it is reasonably priced and works out the box. | ||||||
| pauly |
really is that what you think Iv bought. 
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| DLR |
this is where you tell us you've bought something huge isnt it or where you haven't put in what you actually bought | ||||||
| pauly |
yes you are right I have bought something huge
but it might cause gauging problems 
the evening star  
or have I
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| DLR |
oh god reid's disapeared and jumped into pauly's mind 
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| pauly |
heres a clue for you its green
not much help is it.
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| DLR |
its a mortimer and they are big, they make Bertie look like a toy. | ||||||
| steamyjim |
I've gone for Edrig as you can only get it in green and red
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| made-in-england |
Hmmm Big and green eh? 6695 from swanage railway so you can give it to me!
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| pauly |
I didnt say it was big.
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| Graham-Jilly |
I have a feeling its the mss saddle tank | ||||||
| TRAPPERKEEPER |
me too, you've mentioned MSS a few times 
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| James |
Big and green? MM's ego! | ||||||
| pauly |
no I tried that but I couldnt re-gauge it to my track. 
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| James |
Not suprised
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| pauly |
like that picture of you under your signature but whos that on the right. 
sorry but if I didnt do it now MM would have later on.
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| bessytractor |
Janet gets my vote, good little machine that. | ||||||
| CCairns |
I have to agree with Graham, and if so you are going to be somewhat disappointed, unless you happen to be very lucky and get one that actually works straight out of the box. But even then it will not last long as it appears MSS are suffering the same problem as the old Mamods with wheels falling off! By the way could you tell me what a roundhouse berie or a rounghouse millie are? Are these new Chinese fake imports? |
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| Mamodman123 |
 W'R You're smart enough to fill the middle in
I think its a normal MSS loco
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| pauly |
I am not going to say what the engine I have bought is but I will name 1 engine that it isnt.
Its not the MSS saddle tank.
reason: you cant really at any of the moderfications to it. 
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| alan2525 |
Is it a 10 1/4" Bulleid pacific ?
That was just a random guess though! I voted for the Roundhouse Millie. Anyone of those Locos would be a worthy addition to your Railway though. 
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| made-in-england |
Hmm on a more serious note LOL
Id say the Edrig was going to get one myself but other projects got in the way! |
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| pauly |
I wonder why knowones voted for the mortimer yet.
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| Nick |
When is the big revealing? | ||||||
| pauly |
tommorrow when this poll ends. which is around 1pm
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| CCairns |
I know we all speak a different version of English on this Forum, but what is this supposed to mean? |
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| alan2525 |
I imagine: You can’t really add any of the modifications to it The saddletank mms loco doesn't have a whistle so you are unable to easily add the upgrade regulator to the loco. |
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| pauly |
sorry ment to type add instead of at. |
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| steamyjim |
Aye, thats what's stopping me buying one
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| CCairns |
True, but it is not impossible. See my posting here - http://modelsteam.myfreeforum.org...74.html&highlight=saddle+tank Seems that I did not post an update on this loco, and thinking back it occured around the time I stopped posting on this Forum as I did not like the way the Forum was going at that time. Anyway that is history for just now. I managed to remove the plug in the boiler's 2nd insert, and after some solder repairs and making a new steam pipe, plus fitting a thick washer under the MSS steam dome nut, I finally got this loco working with a water top-up valve fitted as well. It has been consigned to storage at present, and awaits a bodywork modification to raise the part over the rear of the boiler so that the false steam chest can be fitted properly, and hide the water top up valve at the same time. |
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| pauly |
more trouble than its worth really isn't it.
its a shame if you could add the upgrade easily I would have bought 1, I had plans to cut a small doorway in the back of the cab and add a tender to make it look like 1 of the England locos on the ffestiniog.
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| alan2525 |
You could always buy some of the saddletank parts from pps steam models and convert a side tank. Wouldn't take too much work, and you could keep the whistle fitting for fitting the regulator, or just buy a £20 boiler and replace the saddletank one, notch the cab for the regulator and ditch the steam dome. | ||||||
| CCairns |
Not sure if the saddletank bodywork is available as spare parts. Certainly it is not available on Mamodevon's new online shop - http://www.dream-steam.com/standard_parts.html
And unless you got a side tank loco very cheap, you would be better off getting the saddle tank loco, and modifying that instead. With the exception of the boiler modification & repairs, the rest is just simply drilling out rivets & replacing with 6BA cheesehead screws & nuts. It would all depend on how long a steam pipe MSS fitted - certainly the one that was fitted on my Saddle Tank loco was too short, and would have never worked properly (being too short inside the steam chest nut, it was just draining out the boiling water from the boiler when the steam regulator was opened). Now if MSS was to release this saddle tank loco as a kit, like their side tank locos, then it would present a better option. I'll suggest that to Alan (Mamodevon), as he is now an MSS sales outlet. |
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| DLR |
Wheres this loco then or has the poll not ended
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| alan2525 |
End the poll! We all want to see what loco you purchased!!
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| pauly |
its not here sorry.
Ill give 2 words, postal service them idiots couldnt deliver rain to the ground so Ill have to wait till tommorrow. 
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| alan2525 |
My dad bought a Roundhouse Loco, they put the wrong house number on the parcel, it was delivered to the wrong address (a few houses down) and then went back to the supplier.
It was then delivered again...still to the wrong address but my dad saw the courier and had a word - he saw the address was crossed out and it had the correct one lightly penned in underneath! He didn't fancy a £900 quid loco going up and down the country again! |
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| pauly |
your railway cant be that well known then if your neighbors didnt make the connection between a large model engine and your garden railway.
wondering whem my neighbors will notice of course when they do Ill have to line the garden with landmines.
to keep them from nicking it.
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