Archive for The Unofficial Mamod and Other Steam Forum The Original Unofficial Toy Steam Forum Established 2006 The biggest, most popular steam forum around! Accept NO imitations! We have a growing community of regular posting members who chat about all aspects of toy and model steam.          The Unofficial Mamod and Other Steam Forum Forum Index -> General discussion flywheel61 First Post (better than last) Hi everyone, thanks for a great site, this is my first post and hopefully not my last. Did a bit of surfing over the past few days whilst my joining problems were sorted out (my fault). Found the site thanks to Wallace (Andrew), another Aussie. I'm lucky enough to own quite a few Mamods, the oldest being an SE2, boxed, (50's) which I picked up locally and one lonley Bowmans. Probably crossed swords with a few of you on Ebay in the process of building my collection. Thanks to all those who contribute to the site especially the technical section. Cheers Chris Sandman Hi Chris. Welcome to the forum. It's great to have another member from Ozz. We are very proud of our growing international membership and you'll make many friends, who will gladly help with, and discuss any problems you have within the hobby. You will find we are a very informal bunch who like a bit of humour as well as the expertise. We hope you will enjoy it here and I look forward to chatting about the hobby with you soon. yosa Welcome Chris. I'ts a great forum, you'll enjoy it. Post some pics of your collection mate. If you want to (purely voluntary) we have a thread in the ebay forum, where you can let us know your ebay identity, and maybe avoid unecessary bidding against each other, bearing in mind if it's something a few want, it's every man for himself. You can call me yosa or Phil. tmuir Welcome Chris, Another fellow Ozzie, that now makes 3 on the forum. Which part of OZ are you from, I'm in Perth WA. I see you also collect native orchids. I also have a small collection of Western Australian terrestrial native orchids which I've slowly gathered from nurseries and from blocks of land about to be cleared for housing. Have you ever managed to get any Australia engines yet? I've so far got 1 Scorpion verticle engine another unknown but suspected Ozzie verticle. All the rest of mine are English. Look forward to seeing your collection. Mamodman123 A warm Welcome to the forum Chris, We're building quite a few Australian members now you're taking over the forums near enough . I'm sure you'll enjoy contributing to the forums and if you can, get some pictures of your collection up! We all like to see new/different engines MM SPOKESMAN G'day Chris! Steve_S Hello Chris, and welcome to the forum. The more the merrier! Which Bowman have you got? yosa SPOKESMAN wrote: G'day Chris! Spokesman has even studied foreign languages. SPOKESMAN yosa wrote: SPOKESMAN wrote: G'day Chris! Spokesman has even studied foreign languages. Aye or should that be bonser? yosa SPOKESMAN wrote: yosa wrote: SPOKESMAN wrote: G'day Chris! Spokesman has even studied foreign languages. Aye or should that be bonser? Fair go mate. SPOKESMAN yosa wrote: SPOKESMAN wrote: yosa wrote: SPOKESMAN wrote: G'day Chris! Spokesman has even studied foreign languages. Aye or should that be bonser? Fair go mate. Thanks mate . . . Im off to the dunny now! yosa SPOKESMAN wrote: yosa wrote: SPOKESMAN wrote: yosa wrote: SPOKESMAN wrote: G'day Chris! Spokesman has even studied foreign languages. Aye or should that be bonser? Fair go mate. Thanks mate . . . Im off to the dunny now! Ripper. SPOKESMAN Just getting in the mood for 'Im a Celbrity . . . ' tonight! Looking forward to settling down to watch it with a few tinnies/tubes of lager! yosa Is that tonight? I didn't realise, who's the babe this time? Might grab a couple of tinnies myself then. No worries. SPOKESMAN yosa wrote: Is that tonight? I didn't realise, who's the babe this time? Might grab a couple of tinnies myself then. No worries. Mylene Klass . . . There some older interest in there as well! SPOKESMAN http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6142854.stm Mamodman123 Bit C list this year yosa Mamodman123 wrote: Bit C list this year Picky. Mamodman123 yosa wrote: Mamodman123 wrote: Bit C list this year Picky. No washed up footballers either very strange yosa Mamodman123 wrote: yosa wrote: Mamodman123 wrote: Bit C list this year Picky. No washed up footballers either very strange I think they're all playing for us at the minute mate. Mamodman123 yosa wrote: Mamodman123 wrote: yosa wrote: Mamodman123 wrote: Bit C list this year Picky. No washed up footballers either very strange I think they're all playing for us at the minute mate. Oh i dunno I think we've got our fair share oldstuff Glad to meet you, Chris. Great bunch of fellows here, looking forward to reading your posts! -Chuck Griffin Hello Chris, and welcome to the Forum sparky its a bit late but welcome Wallace Welcome to the Forums Chris, great to see you here. Fair dinkum, you other blokes here are a crack up. More noise here than the dunny door banging in the wind. Well I'm off like a brides nightie. Some chat here makes me feel like I have a few roos loose in the back paddock yosa Wallace wrote: Welcome to the Forums Chris, great to see you here. Fair dinkum, you other blokes here are a crack up. More noise here than the dunny door banging in the wind. Well I'm off like a brides nightie. Some chat here makes me feel like I have a few roos loose in the back paddock sparky yosa wrote: Wallace wrote: Welcome to the Forums Chris, great to see you here. Fair dinkum, you other blokes here are a crack up. More noise here than the dunny door banging in the wind. Well I'm off like a brides nightie. Some chat here makes me feel like I have a few roos loose in the back paddock flywheel61 First Post (better than last) Thanks for your welcome everyone. Geez I thought my Aussie venacular was bad but Wallace really takes the cake. Thought it was dying out in the ankle biter generation but I'm obviuosly not on my Pat Malone. Will post images of my collection on the collections site when I have time. For tmuir, don't have any Aussie steam engines yet, far & few between, think I've only seen one on ebain three years, it was similar to your vertical (maybe it's the one you bought). Your PM isn't available, if you want to converse about Native Orchids please PM me direct to save boring everyone else. Cheers Chris tmuir Re: First Post (better than last) flywheel61 wrote: For tmuir, don't have any Aussie steam engines yet, far & few between, think I've only seen one on ebain three years, it was similar to your vertical (maybe it's the one you bought). Your PM isn't available, if you want to converse about Native Orchids please PM me direct to save boring everyone else. Cheers Chris My PM should be available my private email address is hidden but you should be able to PM me odd. I've also only seen one Scorpion engine on ebay, it was similar but not exactly same as my Scorpion, it was also missing chimney and cylinder. Got mine from a person that lives inland from Perth, chance stop at an antique shop, it wasn't in the shop but the guy helping there told me he had an old steam engine in his shed. Rang me up a few weeks later said he was coming to Perth and brought it up with him for me to see. He delivered it to my door and I snapped it up for $150. Powerhouse museum has a boxed one in their vaults got them to send me pictures. Here is the link to the post with pictures of my engine and then a couple of pages in the pictures of Powerhouse Museums one. http://modelsteam.myfreeforum.org/ftopic912.php        The Unofficial Mamod and Other Steam Forum Forum Index -> General discussion Page 1 of 1